Egyptians and Nubians
The problem of frontiers
Nubia : Egypt's primary sphere of influence
"Plotting in their valleys" : the unruly tribesmen
From chiefdom to state and back again : the final conquest of Kush
The Egyptian empire in Kush
The silent years : the abandonment of Lower Nubia and the rise of Napata
The Sudan invades Egypt
The invasion of Piankhy
The twenty-fourth dynasty
The resistance to Assyrian expansion
"Taharqa the conqueror"
Egypt of the "black pharaohs"
Thebes under the twenty-fifth dynasty
The end of the twenty-fifth dynasty in Egypt.