<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE Zthes SYSTEM "http://zthes.z3950.org/xml/zthes-05.dtd">  <Zthes><term><termId>31363362</termId><termName>Kushite</termName><termType>PT</termType><termNote><![CDATA[ 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.  ]]></termNote><termCreatedDate>2026-03-30 20:38:04</termCreatedDate><relation><relationType>UF</relationType><termId>31363363</termId><termName>Cushite</termName><termType>ND</termType></relation><relation><relationType>BT</relationType><termId>31335052</termId><termName>Nubian</termName><termType>PT</termType></relation><relation><relationType>NT</relationType><termId>31403132</termId><termName>Kushite periods</termName><termType>PT</termType></relation><relation><relationType>RT</relationType><termId>31406920</termId><termName>Twenty-fifth Dynasty</termName><termType>PT</termType></relation></term>  </Zthes>