At the beginning of the eighteenth dynasty, as soon as the Hyksos invaders were expelled from the north, King Amenhotep the First decided to extend his grip and establish control over all Nubia and make it a colony belonging to Kimet, which is the border region towards Upper Nubia, and the Egyptians called it "Ta-Seti" (the land of the Sagittarius) due to a weapon The distinctive arch that its inhabitants were using, making it under the direct control of Egypt and was directly managed by Egyptian officials under the authority of the Viceroy, who is called some of them (the son of the king in Kush, the supervisor of the south), and he was assisting in his mission as "the chief of archers of Kush" and two of The helpers are always army men, one for the North ( For Lower Nubia / South Aswan), and the other for South Nubia (Upper Nubia / Kush).
Certainly the Egyptians distinguished between Lower Nubia in Aswan, and the Upper Nubia (the country of Cush), which they controlled, which was the Egyptian hegemony represented by the Cushite lands that were under the responsibility of the Egyptian viceroy in Cush, who is the main official of the Nubian provinces that were of "elites" (Al-Kab area) until Marwa Al-Kushiya named "Howe"
Nubia occupied an important place in the Egyptian economy, and the main source of gold, as well as providing skilled shooters for the army and police forces.
The Kush tribes had privileges without the Egyptians in the murals associated with their depictions, including braids, the wearing of skins, “a brushed face” (black skin), “curly hair” ... etc., but they are like all peoples if the Nubian elites were subject to Egypt, then this is not It applies to the general people from the tribes that inhabited these areas, and which were rebelling regularly against Egyptian rule, so Egypt had to suppress these revolts through the police forces or military participation ...
The general rule in Egyptian art was the realistic depiction of foreigners, and it was practically possible to exclude them by caricature depictions as in the attached images from the cemetery No. (TT40) in Qurtat Qarni Mari in Luxor for the ruler "Howe", the Viceroy of Kush, so they were photographed with bulging eyebrows and nose Flat, prominent wrinkles, large lips, almond eyes
