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The Black Pharaohs: The Kings of Kush – Egypt’s 25th Dynasty

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Black Pharaohs (25th Dynasty)

“Around 760 B.C. Ethiopia (Known at the time as Nubia or Kush) invaded and took over Egypt for a span of 150 years and became what is today known as the 25th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt.”

The Black Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt

The First Black Pharaoh: Pharaoh Alara 790 – 760 BCE

” Gods make a king, man make a king, but Amun made me.”

Pharaoh Alara was the first to unify upper Egypt, establishing Napada as the religious Capitol in Nubia. Founder of the 25th Dynasty, his reign lasted for thirty years.

Alara himself was not a 25th dynasty Nubian king since he never controlled any region of Egypt during his reign compared to his two immediate successors: Kashta and Piye respectively.

“Nubian literature credits him with a substantial reign since future Nubian kings requested that they might enjoy a reign as long as Alara's. His memory was also central to the myth of the origins of the Kushite kingdom which was embellished over time.”

http://www.ancientsudan.org/writing_01_early_nubian.htm

Alara was a deeply revered figure in Nubian culture and the first Nubian king whose name has come down to scholars.

https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Kush-Napatan-Meroitic-Civilization-Orientalistik/dp/9004104488

The cartouche of Alara as appears on the much later stela of Nastasen.

Alara's existence is first documented in the Egyptian hieroglyphic stela of Queen Tabiry who was Alara's daughter by Queen Kasaqa, Alara's wife.

Funerary Stela of Queen Tabiry

(Sudan National Museum, Khartoum).

http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/orient/resour/meroe/collection/01901.htm

“There is an offering-table with bread and bear between Tabiry and Osiris. Columns of hieroglyphs with the names of gods and the title of Tabiry. 9 lines of the text give the offering formula, the name and titles of Tabiry and her ancestry. “

http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/orient/resour/meroe/collection/01901.htm

Learn more: Alara - King of Kush

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alara 

#2. King Kashta of Kush

“A new power is rising in the South and extending its power into the divided Egyptian kingdom.”

King Kashta was an 8th century BC king of the Kushite Dynasty in ancient Nubia and the successor of Alara.

https://alchetron.com/Kashta 

The Kings of Kush: Events of the 750’s B.C. (starts at 8:12)

“As Egypt slipped once again into decline at the close of the New Kingdom (11th century BCE), the viceroys of Kush, supported by their Nubian armies, became virtually independent kings, free of Egyptian control.”

https://www.britannica.com/place/Sudan/The-kingdom-of-Kush

“By the 8th century BCE the kings of Kush came from hereditary ruling families of Egyptianized Nubian chiefs who possessed neither political nor family ties with Egypt. Under one such king, Kashta, Kush acquired control of Upper (i.e., southern) Egypt, ...

... and under his son Piye (formerly known as Piankhi; reigned c. 750–c. 719 BCE) the whole of Egypt to the shores of the Mediterranean was brought under the administration of Kush.”

#3.
Pharaoh Pye of Kush

He was the ancient black Kushite king and founder of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt who ruled Egypt from 744–714 BC.

He ruled from the city of Napata, located deep in Nubia.

Piye (also transliterated as Piankhi).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piye 

#4

The Black Pharaoh Who Saved #Israel

— Pharaoh Taharqa —

“At sixteen the boy pharaoh was called by the Hebrews for help, he led his armies against the Assyrians defeating them.”

https://twitter.com/blackarcheology/status/1096505668993986562?s=20

Stay tuned: Next week we’ll be exploring their powerful black Queens .

DOCUMENTARY movie

The Black Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt

Books - The Kingdom of Kush: Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization (Handbuch der Orientalistik)

https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Kush-Napatan-Meroitic-Civilization-Orientalistik/dp/9004104488

The Black Pharaohs: Egypt's Nubian Rulers

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Pharaohs-Egypts-Nubian-Rulers/dp/0948695234

The Rescue of Jerusalem: The Alliance Between Hebrews and Africans in 701 BC

https://www.amazon.com/Rescue-Jerusalem-Alliance-Between-Africans-ebook/dp/B004J4XG7W

Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt

The Nubian or Kushite Pharaohs: other, common name of the pharaohs of the Twenty-fifth dynasty, which originally ruled the Nubian kingdom of Napata.

They ruled over Egypt from the late eighth century to 666 BCE.

https://www.livius.org/articles/dynasty/25-dynasty-nubians/

Note: After Pieye there existed two other black pharaohs — before Pharaoh Taharqo.

Pharaoh Piye

Pharaoh Shabaqo

Pharaoh Shebitqo

Pharaoh Taharqo

https://www.livius.org/articles/dynasty/25-dynasty-nubians/

Note: King Alara himself was not a 25th dynasty Nubian king since he never controlled any region of Egypt during his reign compared to his two immediate successors: Kashta and Piye respectively.

After Pieye there existed two other black pharaohs — before Pharaoh Taharqo.

Ruling in Nubia

King Alara
King Kashta (While he never entered Egypt, he claimed kingship of Upper and Lower Egypt).

Ruling inside Egypt

Piye
Shabaqo
Shebitqo
Taharqo

Rise of the Black Pharaohs - Ancient Egypt Documentary