Napata

[nap-uh-tuh]

noun

1. an ancient city of Nubia and Cush, situated downstream from the Fourth Cataract of the Nile river, in present-day Sudan.

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But the residents of capitals known as Kerma, Napata and Meroe produced temples, palaces and pyramids filled with pottery, metalwork, furniture and sculpture.

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"It's our time. It's wonderful," said longtime resident Napata Mero, adding that the victory coincided with the city benefiting from an economic upswing and increasing cultural recognition.

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Piankhi caused the account of his conquest to be engraved on a great stêlê of granite which he set up on Mount Barkal, the holy mountain of Napata.

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Piankhi Mi-Amon, the king of Napata, descended the Nile, and called upon the rival princes of Egypt to acknowledge him as their head.

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An inscription found built into a wall at Luxor mentions his third year, and a large stêlê erected by him at Napata was discovered among the ruins of his capital in 1862, and is now in the Museum of Gizeh.

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