Egypt
This is the story of Egypt's remarkable reign of Nubian kings who ruled Egypt as its 25th dynasty.
The traditional role for most of Egyptian history was the Nubian's were subjects of the Egyptian Pharaoh to the north but for about 50 years when between 716-656 bc the kings of Nubia also bore the titles of the lord of the two lands and became King's of Egypt.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2008-02/black-pharaohs/draper-text.html
- Nubian Gallery At Royal Ontario Museum Re-opens
The Star (John Goddard) Before Barack Obama there was Taharqa. Last in a line of so-called Black Pharaohs, he ruled over ancient Egypt and beyond as king of the African civilization of Kush, the last black leader of a superpower before the current U.S....
- In The Field: More Re Taharqa Statue
The Independent, UK (Owen Jarus) With a photograph of the statue in situ. No statue of a pharaoh has ever been found further south of Egypt than this one. At the height of his reign, King Taharqa controlled an empire stretching from Sudan to the Levant....
- The Findings Of A Swiss Archaeological Team In Northern Sudan
Yahoo! The Swiss archaeologist Charles Bonnet spent many years exploring the remains of Nubian civilization in northern Sudan, focusing particular attention on the site of Kerma, the capital of the Nubians, and finding evidence of the existence of a genuine...
- Book Review: The Nubian Pharaohs: Black Kings On The Nile
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil) Charles Bonnet and Dominique Valbelle, (2006) The Nubian Pharaohs: Black Kings on the Nile, The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo. Al-Ahram Weekly reviews this well-illustrated publication written by archaeologist...
- Nubia's Black Pharaohs
http://www.discover.com/issues/dec-05/features/nubia-black-pharaohs/The full article is available only to Discover subscribers, but the following teaser appars on their article (to see the full teaser click on the link above).:"Striding toward an excavation...
Egypt
Black Pharaohs
This is the story of Egypt's remarkable reign of Nubian kings who ruled Egypt as its 25th dynasty.
The traditional role for most of Egyptian history was the Nubian's were subjects of the Egyptian Pharaoh to the north but for about 50 years when between 716-656 bc the kings of Nubia also bore the titles of the lord of the two lands and became King's of Egypt.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2008-02/black-pharaohs/draper-text.html
- Nubian Gallery At Royal Ontario Museum Re-opens
The Star (John Goddard) Before Barack Obama there was Taharqa. Last in a line of so-called Black Pharaohs, he ruled over ancient Egypt and beyond as king of the African civilization of Kush, the last black leader of a superpower before the current U.S....
- In The Field: More Re Taharqa Statue
The Independent, UK (Owen Jarus) With a photograph of the statue in situ. No statue of a pharaoh has ever been found further south of Egypt than this one. At the height of his reign, King Taharqa controlled an empire stretching from Sudan to the Levant....
- The Findings Of A Swiss Archaeological Team In Northern Sudan
Yahoo! The Swiss archaeologist Charles Bonnet spent many years exploring the remains of Nubian civilization in northern Sudan, focusing particular attention on the site of Kerma, the capital of the Nubians, and finding evidence of the existence of a genuine...
- Book Review: The Nubian Pharaohs: Black Kings On The Nile
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil) Charles Bonnet and Dominique Valbelle, (2006) The Nubian Pharaohs: Black Kings on the Nile, The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo. Al-Ahram Weekly reviews this well-illustrated publication written by archaeologist...
- Nubia's Black Pharaohs
http://www.discover.com/issues/dec-05/features/nubia-black-pharaohs/The full article is available only to Discover subscribers, but the following teaser appars on their article (to see the full teaser click on the link above).:"Striding toward an excavation...