Archaeologists have excavated the remains of a sprawling temple complex dedicated to the god Amun at the Sudanese site of Dangeil, shown in this aerial view.
Posted on 05/08/2015 3:25:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
...Through their shared history, Egyptians and Nubians also came to worship the same chief god, Amun, who was closely allied with kingship and played an important role as the two civilizations vied for supremacy.
During its Middle and New Kingdoms, which spanned the second millennium B.C., Egypt pushed its way into Nubia, ultimately conquering and making it a colonial province. The Egyptians were drawn by the land's rich store of natural resources, including ebony, ivory, animal skins, and, most importantly, gold. As they expanded their control of Nubia, the Egyptians built a number of temples to Amun, the largest of which stood at the foot of a holy mountain called Jebel Barkal...
...the kingdom of Kush rose in Nubia, with its court based in Napata, the town adjacent to Jebel Barkal. The Egyptian colonizers may have been gone, but their religious legacy lived on, as the Kushite rulers were by this time fervently devoted to Amun... During a period of discord in Egypt, the Kushite king Piye first secured Amun's northern home, in Karnak, Egypt. Then, claiming to act on the god's behalf to restore unified control of Nubia and Egypt, he conquered the rest of Egypt and, in 728 B.C., became the first in a line of Kushite pharaohs who ruled Egypt for around 70 years...
Kushite rule over Egypt reached its height under Taharqo, but his reign ended in defeat, with Egypt largely lost to Assyrian invaders. Ultimately, the Nubian expulsion from Egypt was completed under Taharqo's successor, Tanutamun (r. ca. 664-657 B.C.). The other Kushite kings whose statues were found at Dangeil are Senkamanisken (r. ca. 643-623 B.C.) and probably Aspelta (r. ca. 593-568 B.C.)...
In 593 B.C., the Egyptian pharaoh Psamtek II invaded and defeated Nubia.
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Archaeologists have excavated the remains of a sprawling temple complex dedicated to the god Amun at the Sudanese site of Dangeil, shown in this aerial view.
Amazing what one can start with some string...
http://www.varchive.org/ce/newev.htm
http://www.varchive.org/ce/c14.htm
http://www.varchive.org/dag/gapp.htm
http://www.varchive.org/schorr/troy.htm
http://www.varchive.org/nldag/trojally.htm
In the tenth year of the siege, after the action described in the Iliad, Priam was said to have received a contingent of Ethiopians under the leadership of Memnon. The brave Ethiopians fought valiantly against the Greeks and caused them much hardship, till Achilles finally slew Memnon and caused them to depart. Some of these traditions are very ancient, in the Odyssey Nestor recalls the death of his son Antilochos,28 who died by the spear of “the glorious son of shining Dawn”29 which is an epithet of Memnon. Later in the Odyssey the Ethiopian warrior is mentioned by name as “great Memnon”.30 The epic Aethiopis, a sequel to the Iliad, recounted the deeds of Memnon and of the Ethiopians at Troy — it is considered to be among the earliest of the post-Homeric epics, possibly as early as the seventh century.31
The heyday of Ethiopian power lasted a little over half a century, from he end of the eighth to the middle of the seventh centuries; following their emergence out of Nubia, they fought repeatedly and at times successfully with the Assyrians for control over Egypt. The Ethiopian host mentioned in the Iliad suggests an Ethiopian attempt to outflank the Assyrian enemy by sending an expeditionary force in support of the Phrygians, under pressure from the Ionians in the West and the Assyrians and Cimmericans in the East.
http://www.varchive.org/dag/trowar.htm
The allies of Priam also included Ethiopians under Memnon;14 the Ethiopian allies of Priam must date in all probability to the period when the Ethiopians were one of the most honored nations, highly regarded for their military prowess. What is called here Ethiopians were actually Sudanese: in Egyptian history the Ethiopian Dynasty and their most glorious period is dated from ca. -712 to -663, when Ashurbanipal pursued Tirhaka to Thebes, occupied it, and expelled the Ethiopian from Egypt proper. 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.15 The possibility of an Ethiopian landing at Troy in the days of the Ethiopian pharaoh Tirhaka need not be dismissed because of the remoteness of the place: as just said, close to the middle of the seventh century, and possibly at an earlier date, Gyges, the king of Sardis, sent in the reverse direction Carian and Ionian mercenaries to assist the Egyptian king Psammetichus in throwing off the Assyrian hegemony.
;’)
Or an oxhide.
And slaves.
I recall a saying - starting with a paper and pencil you can do anything
judging by the eyes, I’ll say that is a statue of a young Ann Coulter
Very interesting. Thank for posting. Impressive temple sanctuary (p.4 at link). It’s amazing that such wonderful pieces of history are unearthed. History BUMP!
“judging by the eyes, I’ll say that is a statue of a young Ann Coulter”
Nah, it’s way too fat.
I am confused about where Ethiopia was. Where was the Ethiopia of old?
Nubia / Kush / Ethiopia, all referred to the non-Egyptian regions of the upper Nile.
They could have sold ad space, other than the whole, most of the country being illiterate thing.
/bingo
The non-Egyptian stuff is also pretty impressive.
http://www.ancientsudan.org/arthistory_01_kermatemples.htm
Probably will become a new topic:
Archaeologist will investigate strangers in ancient Egypt
http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,407179,archaeologist-will-investigate-strangers-in-ancient-egypt.html
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