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Arts of Ancient Nubia: MFA Highlights ceramics Simultaneously a historianAncient Nubia was home to a series of civilizations between the sixth millennium BCE and 35 CE that produced towering monuments, including more pyramids than in neighboring Egypt, and artifacts of enduring beauty and significance. Nubia's trade network reached across the Mediterranean and far into Africa. At the time that Nubian kings conquered Egypt, in the middle of the eighth century BCE, they controlled one of the largest empires of the ancient