Shabaka was the brother of Piye, the Nubian

king who conquered Upper and Lower

Egypt reestablishing central authority in the then

politically unstable land. It should be noted that

the Egyptians did not treat these Nubians as

foreign invaders, as they would the later Persian, Assyrian and

Greek rulers, but rather as close allies.

Though Piye chose to govern from Kush,

Shabaka instead completed the total

reunification of Egypt and ruled from Waset. It

was during this time that the then ancient religous

doctrine, "The Memphite Theology," was copied

onto a granite stone.