Pan-Grave culture

The Pan-Grave culture is a Middle Bronze Age archaeological culture of Ancient Egypt, Nubia, and possibly the Eastern Desert from about 1850 BCE – 1600 BCE. They were once identified with the Medjay of the Egyptian textual tradition. Some may have worked as mercenaries during the Egyptian wars of the Second Intermediate Period, while others blended as a Nubian identity into Egyptian society along the Nile Valley. They were once connected with the Eastern Desert, but no evidence for them has been found in the Eastern Desert.