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Maybe something about the Nubian rulers? Guest workers? I don't know.

• BeetleB 6y ago
  The Nubians were a different group of people than most of the ancient Egyptian rulers we know. Nubians were in the South.
  • jccooper 6y ago
    True, but they had close relationships with ancient Egypt, including various periods of rule by and of Egypt proper, and their cultural artifacts and practices were very heavily Egyptianized, to a point where it's a fine distinction whether something is Nubian or Egyptian, for a period of something like a thousand years
  • Tuna-Fish 6y ago
    There were, however, a bunch of Pharaohs with some Nubian roots. Notably, Amenemhat I, the founder of the 12th dynasty, probably had a Nubian mother. They were rare, though.