BuhenBuhen is located on the west bank of the Nile in Lower Nubia. Nubia was a nation located just south of Egypt. When Egypt was in control of Lower Nubia during the Middle Kingdom, the Egyptians constructed their largest fortress in Nubia at Buhen. Egypt lost control of Lower Nubia, but regained control in the Eighteenth Dynasty and extended its power through all of Upper and Lower Nubia. During this time the Egyptians reconstructed the fortress at Buhen. Egypt lost control of Nubia once again in the Twentieth Dynasty, but Nubia had already been "Egyptianized." Buhen was one of the sites of the 1907–1911 Lower Nubian expedition led by the
University of Pennsylvania Museum. The expedition provided information on the ancient
Nubian cultures and Nubia’s relationship with Egypt. Objects from Buhen on exhibit
are the Statuette of the Gardner Merer (see
cat. no. 34), the Statue of a Scribe
(see cat. no. 39), necklaces (see cat. nos. 60a-c, 61), and a mirror (see cat. no. 74b). |