The Nubian Pharaohs of Egypt: Their lives and afterlives

REVIEW BY SARAH GRIFFITHS Aidan Dodson’s Lives and Afterlives series continues with the often-neglected Twenty-fifth Dynasty: the Kushite kings who ruled Egypt for nearly a hundred years (c.755-656 BC). Nubia and Egypt were intimately linked throughout most of pharaonic history, although the relationship was one of unbalanced power, with the land of the ‘vile Kush’ seen as territory to be conquered and plundered by the Egyptians for most of this period. Egyptian control reached a peak during the New Kingdom, but when rival centres of power began to tear the Egyptian state apart, it was the Kushite kings who marched north to restore order and prosperity. Sadly, the study of this