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Former African country now divided between
Egypt and Sudan; it gives its name to the
Nubian Desert S of Lake Nasser. Ancient
Egypt, which was briefly ruled by Nubian
kings in the 8th-7th century BC, knew the N
as Wawat and the S as Kush, with the dividing
line roughly at Dongola. Egyptian building
work in the area included temples at Abu
Simbel, Philae, and a defensive chain of
forts that established the lines of
development of medieval fortification.
Nubia's capital about 600 BC-AD 350 was
Meroe, near Khartoum. About AD 250-550 most
of Nubia was occupied by the x-group people,
of whom little is known; their royal mound
tombs (mistaken by earlier investigations for
natural mounds created by wind erosion) were
excavated in the 1930s by W B Emery, and many
horses and attendants were found to have been
slaughtered to accompany the richly jewelled
dead.