ABSTRACT
Although it was such an important African development, it seems that Ancient Egypt had relatively little influence on the rest of the African continent. The immensity of the Sahara Desert to its west and the harsh environment of the land to its east isolated Egypt to a large extent. Yet there was one part of Africa with which the Ancient Egyptians and their successors did have frequent contact and where local people reacted by developing their own distinctive cultures. This was Nubia, the land along the River Nile to the south of Egypt, stretching from Aswan in the south of the modern state of Egypt to around Khartoum, the capital of the modern state of the Sudan.
