Egypt
- 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....
- Kerma - Mission Archéologique Suisse Au Soudan
Kerma.ch Thanks again to AWOL for the link above for updates to the Kerma.ch project. In the list of publications on the site many are in PDF format. Here's the site's summary of the project. Still today, Nubia is synonymous with a mysterious...
- In The Reign Of The Black Pharaohs
Al Ahram Weekly (Mohamed El-Hebeishy) Our great grandfathers called it Ta-Seti, Land of the Bow. They were referring to the area south of the First Cataract at Aswan, and the reason behind the name was the unparalleled skill its inhabitants demonstrated...
- Black Pharaohs
National Geographic Thanks to Pierfranco Dotti for sending me the above link to this story about Nubian invaders of Egypt. Here's a short extract from the five page story. In the year 730 B.C., a man by the name of Piye decided the only way to save...
- 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...
Egypt
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 near the base of the pinnacle, archaeologist Tim Kendall pauses momentarily to admire what he calls the 'little mountain with big secrets.' Thousands of years ago, Jebel Barkal and Napata, the town that grew up around it, served as the spiritual center of ancient Nubia, one of Africa's earliest civilizations. The mountain was also considered a holy site by neighboring Egypt, whose pharaohs plundered and tyrannized Nubia for 400 years. But in the eighth century B.C., Nubia turned the tables on its former colonizers. Its armies marched 700 miles north from Jebel Barkal to Thebes, the spiritual capital of Egypt. There the Nubian king Piye became the first of a succession of five 'black pharaohs' who ruled Egypt for six decades with the blessing of the Egyptian priesthood. What happened? asks Kendall. How did the Nubians, overrun by Egypt for centuries, crush their colonizers? And why did the priests of Thebes decide the black pharaohs had a mandate from heaven? Kendall has been searching for those answers for 20 years".
- 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....
- Kerma - Mission Archéologique Suisse Au Soudan
Kerma.ch Thanks again to AWOL for the link above for updates to the Kerma.ch project. In the list of publications on the site many are in PDF format. Here's the site's summary of the project. Still today, Nubia is synonymous with a mysterious...
- In The Reign Of The Black Pharaohs
Al Ahram Weekly (Mohamed El-Hebeishy) Our great grandfathers called it Ta-Seti, Land of the Bow. They were referring to the area south of the First Cataract at Aswan, and the reason behind the name was the unparalleled skill its inhabitants demonstrated...
- Black Pharaohs
National Geographic Thanks to Pierfranco Dotti for sending me the above link to this story about Nubian invaders of Egypt. Here's a short extract from the five page story. In the year 730 B.C., a man by the name of Piye decided the only way to save...
- 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...