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Napata
[ nap-uh-tuh ]
noun
- an ancient city of Nubia and Cush, situated downstream from the Fourth Cataract of the Nile river, in present-day Sudan.
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But the caravan was approaching Napata and the Ethiopian emerald-mines and topaz-rocks.
There are also extensive ruins of his great buildings at Denderah, Ombos, and Napata.
We may go by the same path that the army will take: the gorges of Napata: the way will be free till to-morrow.
Moreover, the later ruins found at Napata, especially some twenty small pyramids, are feeble imitations of Egyptian art.
Here mead flowed and foaming golden beer and heavy Mareotis wines and the intoxicating liqueurs of Napata.
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