Kashta, Kushite King of Napata, which is…

Kashta, Kushite King of Napata, which is four hundred kilometers north of Khartoum, the modern capital of Sudan, also exercises a strong degree of control over Upper Egypt, having managed to install his daughter, Amenirdis I, as the presumptive God's Wife of Amun in Thebes in line to succeed the serving Divine Adoratrice of Amun, Shepenupet I, Osorkon III's daughter.

This development officially legitimizes the Kushite takeover of the Thebaid region.

Kashta's reign length is unknown.

Some sources credit Kashta as the founder of the Twenty-Fifth dynasty since he was the first Kushite king known to have expanded his kingdom's influence into Upper Egypt.

Under Kashta's reign, the native Kushite population of his kingdom, situated between the third and fourth Cataracts of the Nile, has become rapidly 'Egyptianized' and adopted Egyptian traditions, religion and culture.

Kashta's successor in 747 (or 752) BCE is his son, Piye.