Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. African (general, continental cultures)
6. Ancient African
7. ancient East African
8. Nubian (culture or style)

Narrower term/s

• Kushite periods[+]
  • Meroitic (Kushite culture or period)
  • Napatan

Anotations

Scope note:

Culture and styles of the ancient African kingdom of Kush, located at the confluence of the Blue Nile, White Nile, and Atbara rivers in present-day Sudan. The Kushite kings ruled as pharaohs of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt. Kushite art and architecture, though inspired by the canons of New Kingdom and Ptolemaic Egypt, showed increasing independence in the first millennium BCE.