After the Nubian pharaohs lost power ... near Napata, a center of the cult of the Egyptian god Amun. Meroë would become the preferred necropolis later, around 250 B.C. There are two main burial ...
The Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae lie in the Governorate ... The final bastion of ancient Egyptian religion, the rites of the cult of Isis persisted there until the 9th century CE. Other ...