"Lost" Black Egyptian Kings VIDEO

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The colonial oppression of the times makes archeologists question the legitimacy of kings.
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Rise Of The Black Pharaohs

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/sep/29/rise-black-pharaohs/

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Above: Re-creation of one of Piankhy’s warriors fighting one-on-one with an adversary. The Egyptians called the Kush "bow people" because of their expertise in the field.

Monday, September 29, 2014
By Jennifer Robinson

The Egypt of the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx and the Valley of the Kings was an empire of indomitable might. Then, around 800 BC, the impossible happened. Kush, a subject kingdom from the south, rose up and conquered Egypt, enthroned its own pharaohs and ruled for nearly 100 years.

In "Rise Of The Black Pharaohs," National Geographic explores the mysterious Black Pharaohs—the Nubian kings—whose reign has become legendary among Africans and written off as heresy by early archaeologists who refused to believe that dark-skinned Africans could have risen so high.

"Rise Of The Black Pharaohs," premiering Wednesday, October 1, 2014 on PBS, features exciting new archaeological finds in Sudan that are revealing the truth about the great Kush dynasty. Archeologists Geoff Emberling and Tim Kendall are at the heart of the Kushite revival. Emberling, a National Geographic grantee, is digging his way into a royal pyramid/tomb at a site called El Kurru. He hopes to find the bones of a Kushite king and the treasure he took with him into the afterlife. Emberling is following in the footsteps of famous archeologist George Reisner, who excavated most of the other major Kushite sites, but could never get past his racial myopia and accept that these dark-skinned African people had built such an advanced and powerful society.


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[littlemissmartypants]

1. Nubian Pharaohs pictured are reassembled statues

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Pharaoh Taharqa (largest) and Pharaoh Aspelta (smallest). These statues were originally beheaded by Egyptian conquerors who tried to erase the Kush and the 25th Dynasty from history.

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2. I watched it, too.

Interesting. I wonder how many other temples & pyramids are buried under all that sand.