From slave to pharaoh: the black experience of ancient Egypt

Egyptians and Nubians

The problem of frontiers

Nubia : Egypt's primary sphere of influence

"Plotting in their valleys" : the unruly tribesmen

From chiefdom to state and back again : the final conquest of Kush

The Egyptian empire in Kush

The silent years : the abandonment of Lower Nubia and the rise of Napata

The Sudan invades Egypt

The invasion of Piankhy

The twenty-fourth dynasty

The resistance to Assyrian expansion

"Taharqa the conqueror"

Egypt of the "black pharaohs"

Thebes under the twenty-fifth dynasty

The end of the twenty-fifth dynasty in Egypt.