Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

Inside, a processional way was lined with sandstone sculptures of kneeling rams, which were strongly associated with Amun in Nubia. There, the god was portrayed with a ram’s head, having been ...

After the Nubian pharaohs lost power ... Sebiumeker, the Meriotic god of procreation, was associated with the Egyptian creator god, Atum. Sandstone statue from Meroë, first century B.C. Carlsberg ...