Rulers

The kings and Kandakes of ancient Kush.

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  PiyePiye was the Kushite king who conquered a fractured Egypt around 727 BCE, founding the 25th Dynasty of Black Pharaohs. What his own Victory Stela says happened, and why he went home afterward.
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  ShabakaShabaka completed Kush's takeover of Egypt and ordered an old, worm-damaged text carved permanently into stone. What his reign shows, and a real chronology puzzle historians are still untangling.
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  TaharqaTaharqa was a Kushite pharaoh of Egypt's 25th Dynasty, named in the Bible as Tirhakah, and one of the most prolific builders of his line. What the record actually shows.