Shabaka
Neferkare Shabaka,Shabako or Sabaco in Meroitic (Meroitic: 𐦰𐦲𐦡𐦐𐦲 (sa-ba-co), Egyptian: 𓆷𓃞𓂓 šꜣ bꜣ kꜣ, Assyrian: Ša-ba-ku-u, Šabakû ) was the third Kushite pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt, who reigned from 705 to 690 BC. The Greek sources (which include both Herodotus and Manetho) call him Sabakōn (Σαβακῶν) or, more likely, given current understanding of the order of kings and the stated reign-lengths, Sebikhōs (Σεβιχὼς). He ruled from the city of Napata, located deep in Nubia, modern-day Sudan. His burial at el-Kurru (Tomb Ku 15). Shabaka succeeded in preserving Egypt's independence from outside forces particularly the Neo-Assyrian Empire of Sargon II
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