The Kushite Empire raised some of history’s most fearsome warriors. But what makes them really stand out is the fact they were all women, raised from birth for battle.
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Harwa, chief steward of the God’s Wife of Amun, Amunirdis I- the daughter of the Kushite King Kashta.
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Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization
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HYKSOS???
If the direct translation of Hyksos is “rulers of a foreign country” then wouldn’t Nefertiti and Akhenaten be considered foreigners to the land? It explains the connection between Abraham and Hammurabi with ease.
Moreover, it flies in the face of more recent theories that all of the dynasties of Egypt we think of were Semitic in origin. I mean, 1750 BCE is almost 1,500 years after a Kushite by the name of Menes unified North and South Egypt and set up the first dynasty.
Or, hear me out. Is it because of the way we lump together groups with the term Semitic that’s the issue. It was created by a linguist who observed the sons of Shem spoke a set of related languages. Unfortunately, the verse in Genesis that ties the sons of Shem together does so by blood. So now, we associate the Semitic language with constructs like race instead of culture.
Somebody with a more extensive grasp on history please jump in and explain this. I’m genuinely perplexed.
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The Kushites of ancient Nubia
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Marrakesh was Orlando
Marrakesh was Orlando, the Capital of Morocco, is not an attacked on the duplicate Marrakesh that is in North Africa. This post is intended to educate the masses by shedding light on the lost history of America, and to educate the masses on the domestic presence of the Moors, since the Moors have been labelled as foreign invaders from Morocco that is in North Africa.
If you don’t already know,…
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The Kingdom of Kush: An Ancient Civilization in the Nile Valley
The Kingdom of Kush, also known as the Kushite Empire, holds a significant place in the annals of ancient history. This powerful kingdom flourished in Nubia, an area along the Nile Valley encompassing present-day northern Sudan and southern Egypt. With a rich and complex history, the Kingdom of Kush emerged as a formidable force, engaging in warfare, trade, and cultural exchange with neighboring…
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Cleopatra & Amanirenas versus the Romans
The Nile Valley queens Cleopatra of Egypt and Amanirenas of Kush are up against the wrath of the Roman legions! Can our heroines fight their way out of this predicament and defeat one the mightiest armies in the first century BC?
This is of course a fictional “alternate history” scenario I did for the sheer fun of it, but I really like the idea of Cleo and Amani teaming up against Rome. One wonders whether Cleopatra’s Egypt might have held up a little longer with more Kushite support…
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The Kushites went from underdogs to Egypt’s rulers. How did they rise to such power?
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The pyramids in Sudan were built over a period of hundreds of years by a civilization known as the Nubians. The Nubians were initially conquered by the Egyptians and for centuries lived under Egyptian administration. After the Egyptian dynasties fell into dissaray, Nubia broke free and became its own empire, even conquering the Egyptians for a time. Throughout their history, the two societies maintained extensive trade and cultural ties, leading to the Sudan pyramids.
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Bronze statuette of a kneeling Kushite king, wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt. Artist unknown; 25th (Nubian/Kushite) Dynasty, Third Intermediate Period. Now in the Neues Museum, Berlin. Photo credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP/Wikimedia Commons.
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Gilded silver amulet shows the Kushite Queen Nefrukakashta being embraced and nursed by a goddess, probably Hathor.
Nubian, Napatan Period, reign of Piankhy (Piye), c. 743–712 B.C.
From el-Kurru, Ku 52 (tomb of Queen Nefrukekashta)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 24.928
The goddess wears the vulture headdress and a crown consisting of a diadem with bovine horns and the solar disc. A protective vulture flies above the queen, its claw resting on her royal uraeus cobra.
https://egypt-museum.com/hathor-suckling-the-kushite-queen-nefrukakashta/
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Upon the controversy of netflix Cleopatra’s documentary I cannot believe we are still sleeping on the Kushite dinasty. I like Cleopatra but Piye did not went all the way from Nubia to conquest a war torn Egypt just to be forgotten. How is there not a documentary about how he conquered the city of Memphis intalling his sister Amenerdis and later daughter Shepenupet as Divine Adoratrice of Amon who ruled in his name.
The Black pharaos did not invest on rebuilding Egyptian ancient monuments, styled thelmselves as pharaohs a tried to build pyramides for a Greek Ptolomaic to be remember as a Black Pharaoh. (Not to speak about the Queens Kandake of Meroe who ruled Kush on their own at the same time of Cloepatra family).
25th dinasty I’m so sorry you are so cool
Head of Shepenupet II from Alexandria National Museum, Egypt
Sphinx of Pharaoh Taharqo
Portrait of Tantamani in his tomb in El-Kurru
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