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During the several centuries that ancient Egypt stood as one of the greatest if not the greatest civilizations of the ancient world conflicts with its neighbors often played a central role in hieroglyphic texts and art from temples and tombs The three primary enemies of the Egyptians were the Libyans who occupied the Western Desert and its oases the socalled Asiatics who lived in the Levant and finally the Nubians to Egypts south Among the three peoples the Nubians were the most Egyptianized and at times were integral to the development of Egyptian history Truly the Nubians were the greatest of all subSaharan peoples in premodern times and deserve to be studied in their own right apart from ancient Egyptian history