Archaeological culture · c. 2500–1500 BCE
Kerma culture (Kingdom of Kerma)
The first great kingdom of Nubia, centred on the city of Kerma in northern Sudan. Growing from about 2500 BCE, it reached its peak between 1750 and 1500 BCE, when it controlled a long stretch of the Nile in Upper and Lower Nubia and allied with the Hyksos against Egypt.
Its rulers were buried under great mounds. Egypt's New Kingdom pharaoh Thutmose I campaigned south and destroyed Kerma.
See Kerma culture (Kingdom of Kerma) on the map in 2050 BCE
- On the map
- 2500–1500 BCE
How we know
The Kerma people left no writing of their own; Egyptian texts call their land Kush.
Sites
- Kerma c. 2500–1500 BCE