The Nubian king Piankhi (reigned ca. 741-ca. 712 BC) began the conquest of Lower Egypt which resulted in the establishment of the Twenty-fifth, or "Ethiopian," Dynasty of pharaohs. This was one of the few times in African history when a state from the...

769-716 B.C. Kushite king whose invasion of Egypt in the 720s B.C. led to the establishment of the Twenty-Fifth (Nubian) Dynasty of pharaohs. Perhaps the first well-known figure from sub-Saharan Africa, Piankhi was a devoted worshipper of the Egyptian...

Piye, whose name was once transliterated as Py(ankh)i (d. 721 BC) was a Kushite king and founder of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt who ruled Egypt from the city of Napata, located deep in Nubia, Sudan. His predecessor, Kashta, almost certainly...