People / group

C-Group culture

c. 2400 – c. 1550 BCE · 25th century BCE

The C-Group culture was a culture of Lower Nubia from about 2400 to 1550 BCE. Its people were cattle herders and farmers who lived in round houses and buried their dead in stone-ringed tumuli, often with incised black-topped pottery. They lived alongside the Egyptian forts of the Middle Kingdom and were closely linked with the Kingdom of Kerma, before being absorbed after the Egyptian conquest of Nubia.

C-Group culture
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A-Group chiefdom of Qustul

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). C-Group culture. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/c-group-culture
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“C-Group culture.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/c-group-culture. Accessed .
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