Egyptian campaign against Nubia

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Hor-Aha's Nubia campaign
Part of the Egyptian-Nubian conflicts and the early Egyptian conquests

Date:

Sometime between 3150 BCE and the end of Hor-Aha's reign (3000 BCE)

Location:

Somewhere in Nubia

Historical result:

Egyptian victory

Belligerents
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Early Dynastic Egypt

The Nubians

Commanders
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Pharaoh Hor-Aha

Unknown

Strength

Ancient Egyptian army

Nubian forces

  • Indeterminate number of troops
Casualties

Unknown

Unknown

 

The Egyptian campaign against Nubia, also known as Hor-Aha's Nubian campaign, was a conflict between Early Dynastic Egypt under the reign of Hor-Aha, and the Nubians. Evidence of this conflict was found on an ivory tablet in Abydos, where the year of the campaign is explicitly called "Year of smitting of Ta-Sety," Ta-Sety being the Egyptian term for Nubia. Nothing is really known about this campaign other than Nubia was defeated, and their territory absorbed into Egypt's borders. 

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