KemetLeadsTheir words
“…that I might make Lower Egypt taste the taste of my fingers.”
Source: Victory Stela, Gebel Barkal, c. 727 BCE, trans. R. K. Ritner (2003)
Context The Kushite king's stela records his campaign north to subdue rival rulers in Egypt, after which he claimed rule from Napata over the whole Nile valley.
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