Monumental Statue Of Black Egyptian Pharaoh Found [ Taharqa of 25th Dynasty ]

Digital Journal ^ | Saturday, January 2, 2010 | Christopher Szabo

[SunkenCiv]

Archaeologists have discovered a monumental statue of an ancient black Egyptian pharaoh of the Nubian 25th Dynasty in Dangeil, Sudan, about 350 kilometres northeast of the capital, Khartoum. The granite statue of the warrior pharaoh Taharqa weighs one ton, according to its discoverer, Dr Caroline Rocheleau of the North Carolina Museum of Art... The statues of two other Nubian pharaohs were also discovered... Taharqa was ruler of both Egypt and Nubia (Kush) during the 25th Dynasty, which was based in Nubia, which had a long history of pyramid building, apparently independent of Egypt. His reign is dated from 690 BC to 664 BC. The pharaoh is mentioned in the Bible in the Book of Kings under the name "Tirhakah." [e.g. 2 Kings 19:9] "Kush" refers to areas south of Egypt, including Nubia... Eventually, King Essrhaddon of Assyria would defeat Pharaoh Taharqa, who continued to rule in Nubia, despite his defeat. The little-known 25th Dynasty produced striking statues and paintings of its black rulers, as well as of their restoration of a declining Egyptian civilisation. Modern-day Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt, a reflection both of the ancient Nubian culture and the later civilisation of Meroe.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Thank you Joe, but we need more flappy ears here.

[Chode]

i’m starting to believe that the Zer0 truly is Nyarlathotep...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyarlathotep

he is described as a “tall, swarthy man” who resembles an Egyptian pharaoh who wanders the earth, seemingly gathering legions of followers through his demonstrations of strange and seemingly magical instruments, the narrator of the story among them. These followers lose awareness of the world around them, and through the narrator’s increasingly unreliable accounts the reader gets a sense of the world’s utter collapse. The story ends with the narrator as part of an army of servants for Nyarlathotep.

[ricks_place]

[LadyDoc]

Black here means Nubian...usually they only traded or warred with Egypt, but at one point when Egypt was in Chaos, the Nubian leader took the place over.

Check out Bob Brier's lectures on it.

[PLMerite]

Pharobama!

Good work.

[SunkenCiv]

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[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

25th dynasty, Egyptians were about as Egyptian as the Maltese are Maltese, or the Sicilians Italian. Even in the 18th, the great royal wife of Amenhotep III was distinctly negroid, and a commoner too, which suggests that Egypt readily absorbed other ethnic types even in the nobility. Well before that, the Hyksos arrived and mingled, and they are thought to have been a semitic people.