A study by American anthropologists, published in the American Anthropologist, sheds light on some interesting features of the life of the ancient Nubians and settlers from Egypt, who, while living in Ancient Sudan, often entered into marriages, despite serious political contradictions.
The formation of a single new society that arose in Sudan one and a half thousand years BC, when some of its regions were occupied by the Egyptians, who wanted to expand their trade influence in this way, was made possible primarily due to the close integration of Egyptian settlers with the indigenous peoples of Sudan.
In particular, the dawn of the New Kingdom was facilitated by marriages concluded between representatives of apparently completely different cultures. Excavations carried out by scientists on the territory of Tombos, an ancient settlement in the Nubian Desert, show that the Egyptians and Nubians living on a single territory over time united their cultures, which made it possible to create a prosperous local community, even despite the crisis of the Egyptian pharaohs, as a result of which the power in Egypt was usurped by the Nubians.