WarAtlasOpen in the atlas →

World-changing744 BCE – 712 BCE · 32 years

Kushite conquest of Egypt

Memphis · Thebes · Napata · Herakleopolis · Hermopolis

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Piye and Shabaka's Kushite invasion that founded the 25th Dynasty of black pharaohs ruling all Egypt and Nubia.

Belligerents3

  • Kingdom of Kush
  • Third Intermediate Period Egypt
  • Lower Egyptian principalities

ON THE MAPKingdom of Kush

Sources

  1. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 744 BCE and opens this record.

28.00°N · 31.50°E · 744 BCE – 712 BCEWARS-ATLAS / CONFLICT / KUSHITE-CONQUEST-OF-EGYPT

Cite as: Kushite conquest of Egypt (744 BCE – 712 BCE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/kushite-conquest-of-egypt · Sources & methodology