Edited sentence: According to V.But the Egyptians were resilient enough to survive, and shortly afterwards inaugurated the great imperial age known as the New Kingdom.Davies, Director of the Department of Ancient Egypt and the Sudan: “[Kush] swept over the mountains, over the Nile, without limit.. Had they stayed to occupy Egypt, the Kushites might have eliminated it.Egyptian arms were sometimes sorely pressed by another great power of the Nile Valley, the kingdom of Kush, in what is now the northern Sudan.That’s how close Egypt came to extinction.The Kushites almost destroyed Egypt as early as the 17th Dynasty era (circa 575-1550BC) according to a 2003 report by Egyptologists of the British Museum in the tomb of Sobeknakht, a Governor of El Kab, an important provincial capital during the latter part of the 17th Dynasty.The Kushites weren’t interested in occupation.They did a lot of damage.They went raiding for precious objects, a symbol of domination