Uncontacted contemporaries · 450 overlapping years

Kingdom of Kush Nazca Culture

For 450 years — from 100 BCE to 350 CE — both civilizations existed simultaneously. Neither this dataset nor the historical record shows any documented trade, war, or diplomatic contact between them.

1,070 BCE 800 CE

Kingdom of Kush

1,070 BCE–350 CE

Nazca Culture

100 BCE–800 CE

↑ Overlap begins, 100 BCE

Kingdom of Kush

Nubia, Northeast Africa

A Nubian kingdom that conquered and ruled Egypt as pharaohs, later building more pyramids than Egypt itself.

Nazca Culture

Southern coast, Peru

Famous for enormous geoglyphs etched into the desert, fully legible only from high above the ground.

Traits both developed independently

With no documented contact, any shared trait below represents independent development rather than transmission from one to the other.

Irrigation agriculture Long-distance trade

Kingdom of Kush only

Monumental architecture
Bronze metallurgy
Iron metallurgy
Standing army
Urban planning

Nazca Culture only

Astronomical record-keeping