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Burial of Alara at el-Kurru
The burial of Alara at el-Kurru is the tomb of Alara, first known ruler of the Napatan dynasty of Kush, at the royal cemetery of el-Kurru in Sudan.
Campaigns of Harsiotef
The Campaigns of Harsiotef are nine military operations of a 4th-century BC king of Kush, recorded on his Victory Stela inscribed at Gebel Barkal and now kept in Cairo.
Coronation at Jebel Barkal
The coronation at Jebel Barkal was the royal accession ritual of the Napatan kings of Kush, performed from the 8th century BC at Napata, modern Karima in Sudan.
El-Kurru
El-Kurru is the royal burial ground of the Napatan dynasty of Kush, on the Nile near Gebel Barkal in northern Sudan, in use from about 850 to 650 BCE.
Founding of the Napatan dynasty
The founding of the Napatan dynasty was the emergence of a Kushite royal line at El-Kurru in Sudan around 800–785 BCE, beginning with king Alara, whose successors conquered Egypt.
Harsiotef's campaigns
Harsiotef's campaigns are the wars of Kushite king Harsiotef, recorded on a donation stela from Gebel Barkal, with campaigns in regnal years 2 through 35.
Kashta's intervention in Thebes
Kashta's intervention in Thebes was the peaceful extension of Kushite rule into Upper Egypt in the eighth century BC, through installing Amenirdis I as God's Wife of Amun.
Nastasen's campaign in Lower Nubia
Nastasen's campaign in Lower Nubia was a military expedition by the Kushite king Nastasen against the chieftain Kambasawden, recorded on a stela now in Berlin.
Nastasen's coronation journey
Nastasen's coronation journey was the journey of Kushite king Nastasen from Meroe to Napata, where the god Amun chose him as king, recorded on his granite stela in Berlin.
Piye's campaign into Egypt
Piye's campaign into Egypt, also called the Piankhi campaign, was the Kushite king Piye's c. 730–727 BC march north against a Delta coalition led by Tefnakht of Sais.
Retreat of Taharqa to Kush
The retreat of Taharqa to Kush was the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa's withdrawal from Egypt to Napata after defeat by Ashurbanipal's Assyrians in 667 BC, ending Kushite rule in Egypt.
Taharqa's building programme at Jebel Barkal
Taharqa's building program at Jebel Barkal comprises the temples, additions, and inscribed monuments that Taharqa, penultimate king of Egypt's 25th Dynasty, erected at Nubia's Amun sanctuary at modern Karima, Sudan.
Taharqa's building programme at Kawa and Sanam
Taharqa's building program at Kawa and Sanam was a building program by Taharqa, Kushite pharaoh from 690 to 664 BC, who built near-identical Amun temples at Kawa and Sanam.
Taharqa's war with Sennacherib
Taharqa's war with Sennacherib is the conventional name for the 701 BC battle near Eltekeh, where Assyria under Sennacherib fought a Kushite-Egyptian army of Egypt's 25th Dynasty.
Tefnakht's submission to Piye
Tefnakht's submission to Piye was the negotiated surrender of Tefnakht, ruler of Sais in the Nile Delta, to the Kushite king Piye, probably in 728 or 727 BC.
Transfer of royal burials to Nuri
The transfer of royal burials to Nuri was Taharqa's decision, around 664 BC, to found a new royal necropolis in northern Sudan, ending the sequence at el-Kurru.
Transfer of the Kushite capital to Meroe
The transfer of the Kushite capital to Meroe was the shift of the Kingdom of Kush's royal residence from Napata to Meroe, conventionally placed in King Aspelta's reign around 600–580 BCE.