The Black Pharaoh in Denmark

Popular Archaeology ^ | Friday, April 10, 2015 | editors

[SunkenCiv]

It has been said that the period between 760 BCE to 656 BCE in Egypt was the 'age of the black pharaohs'. It was during this time that ancient Egypt was ruled by a dynasty or succession of kings from Nubia, the Kingdom of Kush, a rival African kingdom just to its south in what is today northern Sudan. Beginning with king Kashta's successful invasion of Upper Egypt, what became known as the 25th Dynasty achieved the reunification of Lower Egypt, Upper Egypt, and also Kush (Nubia), the largest Egyptian empire since the New Kingdom. They introduced new Kushite cultural elements into Egypt, yet they also reaffirmed and promoted the traditional ancient Egyptian religion, temples, and artistic forms.

The dynasty reached its zenith during the powerful rule of Taharqa, who reigned between 690 and 664 BCE. Known among many other things to have allied with the Judahite King Hezekiah to save Jerusalem from the Assyrians under Sennacherib, he spent much of his reign battling the Assyrian Empire...

The exhibit, Taharqa: The Black Pharaoh, will be shown at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, Denmark, from April 26 to June 28, 2015.

[BenLurkin]

Glyptotek:

[Impy]

Interesting, I didn’t know there were Black Pharaohs.

I know that some idiots like to pretend that all ancient Egyptians were Black, including inbred Greek Cleopatra.

[blam]

King Tut and half of European men share DNA

[SunkenCiv]

That's not fair, Cleopatra was part Macedonian. ;') But yeah, there are racists on the web who claim ancient Egypt was black.

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The Black Pharaohs: Egypt's Nubian Rulers by Robert G. Morkot paperback Current News

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[SunkenCiv]

Nice!

[kitchen]

The tradition concerning Memnon, the Ethiopian warrior who came to the help of Troy, would reasonably limit the time of the conflict also to the end of the eighth and the beginning of the seventh century.

This is some bizarre chronology, suggesting Homer's works preceded the Trojan War by over a century. Has every antike sherben of LH IIIb been misdated too? What would Walter say?

[SunkenCiv]

It does no such thing, but thanks for playing.

[colorado tanker]

They could have done better with the headline, but it’s a very interesting story and thread.

[SunkenCiv]

Search hits on "Hezekiah" at The Immanuel Velikovsky Archive.

• The Assyrian Conquest
  • The Sequence of Dynasties
  • Jeroboam II and Osorkon II
  • The Conquest of Ashdod
  • Sennacherib: the Year - 701
  • Haremhab's Contemporaries
  • The Later Campaigns of Sennacherib
  • The Siloam Aqueduct
  • The Reign of King Hezekiah
  • Sennacherib's Last Campaign
  • Seti Becomes and Ally of Assurbanipal
• Celestial Events in the Iliad
• Theses for the Reconstruction of Ancient History (#157 and up)
• The Secret of Baalbek
• Beyond the Mountains fo Darkness
• Notes and Themes
• The Birth of Monotheism
• Beth-Shan
• Letters
• The Northeast Extension
• Sabbath

re: the reference to "Paleo-Hebrew":

• Cadmus
• Linear B Deciphered
• Why no Literary Relics from Five Centuries?
• The Libyans in Egypt
• Tiryns
• Other LH III Figural Pottery
• Bronze Tripods
• The Date of Carthage's Founding
• Letters
• Letters

[SunkenCiv]

A Symposium on Haremhab: General and King of Egypt
1,101,669 views
Jan 27, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lLv58zwGhU