Iiwy Em Hotep Honoured Guests. Iiwy To The City Of NupA'tu-pa. Note: This is a reconstruction of the Napata Capital.

Napata (nupA´tu, –pA´–), ancient city of Nubia, just below the Fourth Cataract of the Nile. From about the 8th cent. B.C., Napata was the capital of the kingdom of Cush. Many great temples like those of Waset were built here by Taharqa (XXV dynasty). The Cushite capital was later moved (c.530 B.C.) to Meroe.

Alara (c. 780–760) founded an independent Kushite dynasty with its capital at Napata. Under Piankhy (or Peye, 747–716) the Kushites sacked Memphis, and Shabako (716–702) conquered Kemet, founding the 25th (Kushite) Dynasty (747–656), which ruled from the Sixth Cataract to the Mediterranean (See 747–656). Taharqa (690–664) did extensive building at Napata and campaigned as far east as Palestine. Tenuatamum (664–656) was driven from Kemet by the Assyrians, but the dynasty continued to rule in Napata. Anlamani (623–593) campaigned against the nomadic Blemmyes and was succeeded by Aspelta (593–568). In 591, Psamtek II (595–589) invaded Kush and captured Napata (See 747–656), and Aspelta moved the capital south to Meroë, near the Sixth Cataract.

Nubia often influenced and was influenced by Kemet, ending and beginning phases in each others histories. The Nubian Kingdom often moved up and down the Nile, depending on how successful or dismal their kingdom was. Sadly, the Nubian kingdom was destroyed when the Axum (From Ethiopia) invaded in 350 A.D.