Discovering Ancient Nubia: Kings and Pyramids in the Sudan

Take a close look at the tombs of the Napatan kings who conquered and ruled Egypt from the late 8th century to 666 BCE, using objects that the MFA excavated from 1913 to 1932 with archeologist George Reisner. Napatan kings later held sway over the kingdom of Kush in the northern Sudan, and built pyramids for themselves and their wives in cemeteries at Kurru and Napata. Studying these lavishly decorated pyramids, and the mortuary rites that took place in the attached chapels, makes clear some of the differences between ancient Egyptian and Napatan beliefs and priorities.
Susan K. Doll, Nubian scholar
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

[@francisjoseph3849]

i am from the nile valley aka the nilotic people and coming from atribe i can tell everybody that the difference between the nubians and miot(ancient egyptians)was tribal the nubians spoke acushitic dialect which is related to the oromo,nuba,somali,sandawe while the egyptians spoke anilotic/proto kalenjin dialect which is closely related to the languages of modern kalenjin of kenya it is so easy to arrive at this conclusion based on what the egyptians left behind i.e their God isis,neteru is the same name for god in kalenjin dialect, maat is kalenjin for fire and the maasai or the maa people are again asubtribe among the nilotes we have pharaohs senusret,mentuhotep,menkaure,sesostris,luput,ramesis,tutmosis,amasis,psamtik,nekau,amenhotep,seti,psusenes etc all this names are kalenjin names and can be recognized by anyone who speaks this particular dialect.so it can be said that the egyptians and the people of taseti were the same but atribal tiff existed among them just like modern day tribal issues between modern african tribes infact the saites dynasty 26th dynasty vs the 25th dynasty kings is a classic case of this rivalry the kalenjin pharaohs nekau hellenized as necho helped the assyrians under ashurbanipal kick out tirhakah out of egypt their was no way the assyrians would have succeeded without this tribal tiff.the assyrian army was helped by the kalenjin pharaohs and their warriors to fight against their nubian overlords.

[@frankscott1708]

About iron production in Africa: iron is being produced at 2300BC at Benoue in what is now Central African Republic & Cameroon. Radio carbon dating on this is very reliable. See the work of Chris Ehret, Distinguished Research Prof at UCLA. Good presentation. Yes to the idea that Darfur road was an opening into West African bulge (the Kayenga). That's why it has changed hands so often and why there has been so much historical conflict surrounding Darfur. North of Darfur into Chad was too dry and south was too humid forest. Darfur was a corridor where the West African savannah would jut almost into the Nile Valley.

[@AfriasporaFilms]

Mr. Scott, thank you for your comment. I am researching this topic. Can you point me to a specific publication where Chris Ehret has published that date regarding iron smelting in West Africa? I have not been able to find it yet. Everything I see regarding Benoue says 2400BP (before present) to 2200BP, which translates to roughly 400 to 200 BCE. I would love to have something solid saying Benoue smelting is much older.

[@frankscott1708]

@@AfriasporaFilms 400 to 200 BCE would not be controversial or even worth reporting. Go to Ehret's most recent lecture at Harvard on KZbin. This is where he mentions the work at Benoue. I tried contacting Prof. Ehret directly via his email pre-pandemic and got no response. There are articles reporting the ancient Benoue date that are accessible via Google.

[@dawnhewitt1]

Your comment is absolutely fascinating, thank you for those details, I'm inspired to delve further into this subject!

[@spirithawk2418]

Fascinating.

[@spirithawk2418]

Found this by accident and I am wanting to know more. My DNA came back with a hit origin in the Cameroon / Congo regions. Paternal.

[@marcossealey8612]

Nubia is older than Egypt..BOTH NATIONS ARE AFRICANS

[@truthhurts6327]

Any information or knowledge on what you said

[@marcossealey8612]

@@truthhurts6327 Read a Book

[@truthhurts6327]

@@marcossealey8612 what book?

[@givennamefamilyname6702]

When you look at traditional dress of Egyptians today and dress of ancient Egypt there's no connection; yet when you look at the tribes all over Africa, you see the same traditional dress(as in outfits for lack of a better word) that was worn in Ancient Egypt...from beads, hairstyles, clothing, pottery- you name it!

[@CandySlim501]

@@truthhurts6327 UNESCO'S General History of Africa Volume 2, Ancient Egypt Light of the World by Gerald Massey, Black Genesis by Robert Buval, The African Origin of Civilization - myth or reality by Cheik Anta Diop

[@so9487]

I am baffled by all the bold assumptions that the Kushites took Egyptian artifacts and made them their own. And what about the ancient kingdom of Ta-Seti which preceded ancient Egypt? Had it ever occurred to you that the whole thing started from the South and progressed towards the North?

[@TheVaun65]

It certainly has occurred to them, it's very obvious, the Egyptians said it themselves! They just don't want to address it because of the implications.

[@greatnilemedjaywarrior3155]

This Was Great Presentation of Nubia Kush Sudan I Liked it I Hope They Keep Doing More of this

[@40melt]

No they did not use Egyptian pictures , it was the other way around but Egyptologist say that because they know where the makers of the art and structures come from and it is not them. why do you think Egypt has denied a lot of access to unopened areas of certain older tombs and in the middle of the night they are secretly excavating . Because they are scared the truth will be found out that they are not the culture that they have been claiming to be all this time. builders of pyramids and all things great to antiquity .

[@marlondopson6728]

The Nubian Civilisation predates the Kemitic Civilisation by two centuries. Who borrowed what from whom?

[@truthhurts6327]

Any knowledge on this thanks

[@greatnilemedjaywarrior3155]

Egypt had Alot of Forts they don't talk about Like if this was the Vikings they would been talking about an Honor them all over TV an Photos The other forts along the banks were Mirgissa, and Shalfak, and Uronarti and Askut and Dabenarti and Semna, and Kumma. The Kushites captured Buhen during the 13th Dynasty, and held it until Ahmose

[@inidbil7277]

There are Egyptian statues found in the Congo

[@Starseedite]

Who are these idiotic experts that keep trying to separate Nubia and Kemet... Unbelievable... Have you ever seen 2 separate cultures seem so similar??? If anything all you see is an evolution of culture...

[@placova]

2 Separate cultures like say, the United States and Canada or England? The civilizations in Egypt and Nubia had different languages, different burial customs, different material culture, etc, etc. Maybe you should listen to people with Ph.D.s and learn something rather than calling them 'idiots!"

[@alephseskhet8700]

@@placova lolll i think us east africans can see the similarities between our customs and the apparently separate "Kemet". same damn thing its like the differences between Eritrea and Ethiopia, same blood, same people, very similar cultures, minor differences

[@nialcc]

@@alephseskhet8700 - But, but but but, you Africans know nothing about your own customs and similarities. You need Europeans to tell you, you have different languages, different burial customs different culture etc. etc. You have no idea what you're talking about because Egypt and Sudan are difference countries like the US, Canada and England. Wow, the person you replied to obviously have no idea what an idiot is. Just sad.

[@donforde4936]

@@nialcc your obviously an Arab. You are not egy0tian

[@valenalford1307]

@@placova yes you're right ✅ but aren't they all eroupean 🤔? The same we have been trying to say all centuries ago that Egyptians and Ethiopians are all African people 😉 and remember herodotus and diodorus quotes:that the Egyptians and the Ethiopians are the same people

[@jeffreyyounger5772]

Thank teach for taking your time , talking one the oldest ancient lost civilization , ancient, universal,and world 🌎 history !

[@recktrain2860]

NUBIANS AND EGYPTIANS WERE THE SAME PEOPLE

[@assassinworks5538]

well they were both african according to the greeks they couldnt tell the difference

[@ahyesexistence1586]

Uh....no? They were two separate kingdoms. Egypt took over nubia twice and the kushites (north nubians) took over Egypt once. I'm doing a research project on this for my world history 1 class for college.

[@givennamefamilyname6702]

Egypt is not a Kingdom

[@ahyesexistence1586]

@@givennamefamilyname6702 ....sorry, I mistermed them. I'll edit the comment soon lol

[@johnjames2734]

@@ahyesexistence1586 Hope you're getting a True depiction of reality not formality my friend.

[@pedropfaff8906]

The oldest iron mines are in Swaziland some 40,000years.

[@AfriasporaFilms]

Brother, please point me to more info on this.

[@pedropfaff8906]

@@AfriasporaFilms This was some 40 years ago when I first came across the information.If memory serves me correctly I think it was in the book "The Selfish Gene" where it talks about an anthropologist by the name of Bergier being initiated into the ceremonies surrounding these ancient iron mines.

[@so9487]

Thank you. These so-called historians and Egyptologists need to be reminded of that.

[@so9487]

💌

[@mohamedibrahimali80]

Mohamed Ali.. from kush The name kush is the son of Ham son of Noah and he the King of kush.

[@johnfraser8116]

A great presentation. Thanks! I take it that one is supposed to lie one's way into heaven or did I miss something? :)

[@kemetnubiakamp]

1:21:31 I would think the link is the original name for Kom Ombo which was Nwbyt/Nwb.t. Likely the change is the Romanization of the several Nwb.t municipality names within Kemet itself to have the references of "Nubia" being less consistently African linguisically, and then later you have Axumite King Ezana using Nobatae (African again) for what was Meroitic Kush that he conquered.

[@Starseedite]

Who gives this foolish woman the right to claim the kushites took from Kemet instead of the other way round

[@placova]

She isn't saying that at all. If you actually listened to the presentation and could understand what she was talking about.

[@greatnilemedjaywarrior3155]

They also need to try to Crack the Code of Kush Nubia Stone Tablet there language is Unknown 2020 Alot Digging It's More those Sands Sudan is Big Kushite Nubian knew Lands Egypt Durring those times and of Kushite Family's also Live in Ancient Egypt Settlements the Connections between the two was so Natural just like Humens we are today

[@renaissancewoman100]

I always wondered why they've never been able to crack it. Especially since they say Nubia is an "Egyptian Copycat".

[@walimoony4669]

So, the Hala’ib Triangle belongs to Sudan and not Egypt? 😂

[@SimonSozzi7258]

21:00 "Europeans"?

[@frankscott1708]

Did such a people even really exist in settled societies that might trade at that point in time?

[@susandoll3187]

All I'm saying is that they were going places Europeans had never heard of. The audience is almost all of European descent.

[@DPSLee]

But overall dated conclusions. Cultural flow is from South to North initially with some back and forth after initialization of civilization in the South

[@Revisionistsofficialchannel]

Play at 1,25. Thank me later.

[@a-bd1216]

The Negative Confession " It wasn't me" Shaggy!

[@isaacpeterson3407]

CAAAARLLL

[@JohnBurgundy]

Older than Egypt but they borrowed? What a joke!

[@greatnilemedjaywarrior3155]

also have Horse There Nubian Cavalry was Great because Google says The Roman General Titus with Battle Against Jerusalem the Kushite Queens Sent Nubian Kush Cavalry to Help Roman General Titus just Google it Kushite Nubian Cavalry was Tuff an there Royalty Archer's they also Defeated Rome General in Battles an war 5 long year War I Love Kush Nubia it Alot more Kush an Nubia still Sudan in those Sands they need to Do more Digging in Sudan Kush an Nubia karma Meroe

[@truthhurts6327]

What was Nubians worship before christianity

[@greatnilemedjaywarrior3155]

@@truthhurts6327 Good Question they really had there Own Religion believe to sorting point but also adopted Egyptian's Believes an Custom they also had there Own Language but Similar to Ancient Egypt there own Writing they still can't even crack the code a there Stone Tablet still today I hope one day they do they know how important Egypt was plus Nile River an all Nations Did

[@Represent1]

I agree with almost everything you are saying but you should proof read your text before sending. People will take you more seriously my friend. Best regards 😉

[@truthhurts6327]

Ok thanks the information is Nubia older then Egypt?

[@greatnilemedjaywarrior3155]

@@Represent1 I'm Ancient

[@ReginaldD.Felton-ct5ld]

Come out of the dark and show life , people what ur bloodline consist of , to see who can withstand the most pain , in the heat of the point of no return .

[@AFRICA4AFRICANS]

Kush is thee oldest civilization on earth.

[@mohamedibrahimali80]

The word Nubia means land of gold

[@mkern7573]

Nubies are the REAL false builders of the energy power plants? Okay then.

[@flashlight5695]

And argue critical race really theory??

[@Starseedite]

Useless presentation

[@j.d9070]

Well, there is a difference between opinions and scientific evidence... You probably have the 1st, she has the 2nd.

[@Starseedite]

@@j.d9070 scientific indeed. Keep dreaming. Pure conjecture. Total subjective interpretation of facts on ground.

[@j.d9070]

@@Starseedite Well, no one is stopping you from publishing an article to criticize the quality of her work. She's a well respected scholar in nubiology, and who are you again?

[@j.d9070]

I have never seen so many PhDs, archaeologists and scholars on Ancient Egypt and Nubia in one youtube comment section

[@delgadojonesable]

Everything she states is false, period.

[@j.d9070]

Who are you again ?

[@simirkresimir8975]

Nonsense

[@aijaeugene2858]

wait till you hear about inzalo yelanga that predates even Egypt by 70000 years in southern africa where there is the oldest man made structure

[@orvillegrant3304]

She is gaslighting

[@saikoujaiteh2986]

But they cant steal the pryment 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣