The Lost Kingdom of Sudan | BBC Earth

[@pegeonpera]

Great, now I will have to read all about this kingdom.

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

We wuz kangz n sheeit

[@PugilistCactus]

Easiest way is to just look into Kushite kingdom. BBC would like to call them and Egypt the same when in reality Egypt was more of the mixing pot stuck between Mediterranean Europe and Nubia (Cause apparently there isn't lush resource rich land further South of Egypt according to BBC). They even have totally different writing systems.

[@katarzynakabacinska7070]

I feel you! 😂

[@abdelrhmana_gadernawai5740]

Am from this great country ...sudan

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

Sorry =/

[@jenjoseph9394]

So then dude , speak up and be heard

[@OST1350]

It was great. But now it's greatness is only in the past.

[@corriblehunt4554]

Do you still live in this great country?

[@abdelrhmana_gadernawai5740]

@@corriblehunt4554 yes

[@wildbanana5628]

I heard kush

[@22vx]

hell yeah it's Saturday evening and I'm off work

[@gabrielbarrientes1200]

22vx I literally just got off work and I’m bout to light up a joint I’m off for the weekend... have a great rest of the day man.

[@22vx]

@@gabrielbarrientes1200 ok, admittedly off-topic, but yeah lol peace bro, enjoy

[@gabrielbarrientes1200]

22vx how is anything I said off topic you said you said you were off work and I’m smoking

[@22vx]

@@gabrielbarrientes1200 no no I'm acknowledging that, with reference to the video, "kush" is an off-topic topic (which we're enjoying)

[@ellieechoes]

The Egyptian and the Nubians had a great rivalry. The Egyptians were often jealous of the nubians access to wood and gold. In fact king Tut had sandals that had nubians on the bottom of his sandals so he could always be "crushing the nubians" as he walked. The 2 cultures intermixed constantly making it so that one could not have existed without the other.

[@NubiansNapata]

ellieechoes Kinda of a Rivalry but cultures evolved beside each other,there is evidence of trade between the naqada culture and Nubian culture in pre dynastic times..people moved back and forth across, especially from lower ta seti upper ta mery....Egyptian pharaohs wanted gold that's true,that was the the reason for Egyptian invasion of Nubia....they had sandals with every nation on them ones familiar to them.. they conquered 100 states In the middle East.. they even conquered each other.. the south was constantly conquering the north in the unification processes

[@jenjoseph9394]

Wow

[@NubiansNapata]

Minnesotabro Assyrians had nothing to do with Nubian victory..and the southern ancient Egyptians called Nubians to protect the south from the Libyans in north.. Piye was invited to the opet festival at Karnak he had the blessings of the cult of amun at Karnak..to reunify upper and lower Egypt and to become one again.. to basically save Nile culture..Same traditions and Gods..Assyrians push Nubians more south.. which began the Meroitic period..Meroe was never a vessel state..Meroe flourished even after the Roman empire fell... it was Axum who finally took conquered Meroe... Christianity spread throughout the Nile.. South became Christians which gave rise to two Nubian Christian kingdoms.. Assyrians,Greeks,Romans,Turks,Persians rule was the death of Nile culture.. they basically brought foreign gods and suppress native Gods... Nubians brought back old gods and traditions which the Libyans were destroying..

[@NubiansNapata]

Minnesotabro I think you're the daft one mate... Assyrians and Nubians are enemies... Assyrians were allies of Libyans who were enemies of Nubians.. Assyrians never helped piye win any battles in northern Egypt against the Libyans... Shebiktu, the Pharaoh of Kush, maintained a peaceful policy with Sargon of Assyria who, at the time, was expanding his Assyrian empire in the Near East. In 704 BC, Sargon died in Tubal. His death brought hopes of independence to the Near Eastern districts that fell under his imperial control. Shabako the Kushite pharaoh took advantage of this situation and supported the anti-Assyrian rebels in the Near East, including those in Syria and Phoenicia. victory stele, dating to the seventh century BC, shows the assyrian king Esarhaddonn holding the later pharaoh of Kush Taharqa and Abdi Milkuti (of Sidon) in bondage,which further testifies to the relationship between the Phoenician cities and Kush.

[@NubiansNapata]

Minnesotabro There is evidence of early Nubian dialect in Meroitic language.. drive.google.com/file/d/13co2QeibfoOzBzb_l3bTkp9feDC7Lu5J/view?usp=drivesdk

[@acaciabourne2536]

Stunning! No words left...

[@JosephEMercado]

For a second I thought I was looking at an Uncharted live action trailer

[@cnllnc]

Joey Mercado that was my first thought from the thumbnail!

[@Dev-Austin]

Lol

[@تهارقاالسوداني]

Amazing Sudan 🇸🇩

[@1994-l1m]

This is Spectacular.

[@thehuskyplays4361]

This is honestly very very beautiful very holy cow

[@mikeseal3053]

Thanks BBC

[@vwb1152]

I’m trying to binge watch please post more lol

[@hibaloutfe6338]

I Can’t believe people would think black people cant achieve great things because I’ve seen in it with my own eyes as I am from there. I’ve seen black people make the most amazing buildings you can ever imagine but I’m so heartbroken as this side of Sudan has lost faith in themselves because of selfish people and people that make them doubt themselves but I promise they are the most amazing people ever!!!!✨✨✨✨✨✨✨🤲🏽

[@Staffa23]

Hiba Loutfe Thank you so much! 👏🏾😊

[@SaintGwithian]

Dynasty of Kush sounds like a good time tbh

[@legionnaire2676]

Bruh🤣

[@carmeladonofrio1854]

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS SO MUCH BBC 😘😄😃😃😃

[@wendyrowland7787]

I always enjoy Simon Reeve’s disclosures of what is going on in the world.

[@Lunar_Tears]

Amazing

[@muaazumar3559]

I love BBC earth all videos

[@101Allusionist]

1:11 "Do you ever feel like a plastic bag Drifting thought the wind Wanting to start again"

[@eenayeah]

Those pyramids look so cool.

[@hey1232]

My Black Kush people build it

[@BluesBadTom]

Thumbs up for you my friend.

[@saleenayasin1943]

Very interesting

[@charlesspeaksthetruth4334]

The Kingdom of Kush was a Great civilization. I advise everyone to read up on it and learn something new. It's a shame racist tried to call this great civilization anything but Black African. That type of thinking is ignorant and unnecessary.

[@PugilistCactus]

Well when you have a habit of burning your own civilizations to the ground... I wouldn't call it racism, more so blaming it on bad habits.

[@goldbrodidoggo]

Arab is a white Muslim in disguise

[@hishammarouf7068]

This is just the tip of ancient civilizations that lived in Sudan, besides Maroe Kingdom, Darfur Sultanate had flourished to the point that they were responsible for covering the Mecca stone because Saudi didn’t have enough funds. Btw, Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt.

[@sovietman6555]

didn’t know this

[@salehaaldosari4164]

هذه الحقائق ومايخص هذه الحضاره بالذات لايعجب البعض لكن ماحاوله طمسها واخفاء مايتعلق بها امر غريب جدا

[@jonathangubisch-createyour2666]

Racism.. The concept that makes us think that we are any different from one another. In many ways, we are, but I believe we all want the same thing: to be more happy and live a life fulfilled of purpose, love and joy. That's why I created my KZbin channel aswell. To help people have more of that in their lives.

[@ritahammitt7663]

Jonathan Gubisch I hope you succeed!

[@armormetal90]

Every communism would say. (Dis is a jk)

[@iamwilson6922]

Is not about thinking people are different from one another, its about on person thinking that their better than another solely based on skin color. People and nationalities are absolutely different from one another. That's why world cultures and their people's values are so different from one another. The narrator doesn't mention why some archaeologist make the argument that Sudanese were paler, he just calls them racists.

[@jacobandrews2663]

@selfpromotionofficer

[@shabijatoi5751]

Jonathan Gubisch in real we all are human and there should not be racism.. but if these Gods existed in real trust me there were racism.. Otherwise we as human wouldn't have different Gods around different parts of the world. Only Australia is the country where thereno religion existed untill Birtain reached there in 1788 and built first chruch and started religion. Still 40% of people in Australia have no religion.

[@nid2920]

I didn't even know that there were more pyramids aside from the Egyptian ones .. that's crazy what history just left out

[@jabbah7115]

*obligatory "good kush" joke*

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

Right there above you already 👆

[@gyansingh4771]

बहुत सुंदर सर

[@wearealljustclowns]

Ancient peeps be blazN that medicine 2:33

[@kotiplessa]

Where did I heard this music before?? 🤔

[@saman2689]

This is the reality,this is the cycle.If the sun rises the sun also sets.

[@goldbrodidoggo]

Saudi never sets though..keep rising and meddling in other countries..

[@erinyoung24]

Wow

[@hey1232]

WOW JUST WOW KUSH

[@soleb542]

Sudanese stand up

[@pegeonpera]

'Nubian' reminds me of Star Wars for some reason

[@Anubalfer]

Naboo

[@ADNANOSCAR]

The Nubian civilisation was very great. I'm from there.

[@ahmedabbaker5569]

Search the 25th dynasty ( there must be a reason why they took it out ) !!

[@GreatMan_from_East]

VS Naipaul

[@gilly1422]

Some one say KUSH..

[@hey1232]

Yes My people I'm(Ethiopian) Oromo Kush

[@Stonewall1861]

Thank you for BBC Earth for that you giving me over the years.But this is our world. We shouldn’t let’s a select few dictate history. It is very shameful that we only know so little about them.You need to know all the different societies we have in this world.

[@mister1680]

I thought that was Alex Honnold in the thumbnail

[@shabijatoi5751]

Does it resemble to Pyramids of Egypt?

[@danbee6103]

Couldnt give a flip about another “king”. The guy who slaved folks to build those piles of stone. I pay attention to the literature that enabled good shelters, food, water. Warm hearts and the people coming together to prove what human kind’s potential in all degrees of life is in this universe. Edit: i know nothing of this culture so, thanks for the insight*

[@safaiaryu12]

The idea that pyramids were built by slaves is a myth. The workers who built pyramids were in fact very well paid and had better diets and health care than most of the population. Archeologists know this from the state of their bodies and burials in the workmen's villages near pyramids.

[@oseiosei6649]

The Pharaohs of ancient Egypt (KMT) were black; just like they were in ancient Kush.

[@bbss278]

صحيح كانو جميعا من أسرة واحده اما المصريين الحاليين فهم قبط دخلو مصر بعد دخول اسكندر ودخول الروم 👍🏼

[@ItsGroundhogDay]

Egypt isn't exactly a light-skinned country either.

[@garrusn7702]

Lighter skinned than Nubians they are. “Light/dark” is completely relative. Most people in Egypt are not black.

[@necr0danc3r29]

@@garrusn7702 Wasn't there an Arab conquest of Egypt?

[@PugilistCactus]

@@necr0danc3r29 There was a conquest that came long before that. Its said the Egyptian people are generally a mix between Mediterranean Europeans, Mesopotamians (modern Arabs and Persians) and Nubians/Kushites. Generally drawing their culture from Mesopotamia. Egypt/Israel (former Canaan) are kinda the cradled of human civilization really.

[@garrusn7702]

Necr0Danc3r Yes, that doesn’t mean that the Arabs replaced the Egyptians any more than it means the British replaced the Indians.

[@DaduaMaiga]

@@garrusn7702 Egypt was and still is multi ethnic, In Aswan In Southern Egypt people there are dark while in Alexandria people there are light, Egypt has been a crossroad and has been conquered several times throughout its history, also race is a modern social construct and NOT biological/scientific reality, but a made up concept not based on genetics and science.

[@F91killer]

Water from the Nile

[@sovietman6555]

I WATCHED 2 SEC AFTER THE RELEASE

[@chillcungtaktm321]

Helo...

[@moonguyrher]

Nathan I thought you retired

[@kale188]

All that sun and sand... you know it was black peoples who ruled those lands.... our bodies adapted to that climate perfectly✊🏽

[@barryirlandi4217]

hmmm.... adapted from what??

[@anarchoutis]

sounds like a LARP tbqh

[@NubiansNapata]

If it was the thieving british museum wouldn't be filled with our artifacts

[@anarchoutis]

@@NubiansNapata You didn't lay a single brick of it.

[@NubiansNapata]

@@anarchoutis And when did I say I did?

[@NubiansNapata]

@@anarchoutis Why are u triggered by our history... Lol...

[@anarchoutis]

@@NubiansNapata Post wheels. You won't.

[@jacksonpeterson4874]

People do your research egypt was populated south up SOUTH UP. They were all much darker in the ancient past, not just kush.

[@chernobadrammeh881]

Egyptians themselves are Africans

[@blackfame3430]

Chernoba Drammeh you mean Arabs as well.

[@qv8281]

I hate when people distort history for their own agendas but the dismissal of civilisations of people with sub Saharan phenotypes with we wuz kangz jokes is just dumb

[@ligmakrak3316]

what does black mean . this is sudanese history . 40 million people still live in sudan . african Americans are Bantus from west africa so u can't just claim our history

[@yoboiboy4182]

Brokenomore he means blacks as a whole. History has been distorted. Europeans act like blacks have never established vast kingdoms of their own .

[@qv8281]

Yoboi Boy well I mean I can understand his frustration with my comments inaccuracies since Africa is a vast and genetically diverse continent so it is ignorant to try and lump all those groups into one thing. I’m not saying that west African Bantus should try and claim some connection to Nile civilisations.

[@qv8281]

Then again you could even argue it’s not Sudanese history since Sudan as a country is a colonial construct with many ethnic groups with varying histories within the regions so perhaps it would be more accurate to say its Nubian/Nuba/Beja/Fur (the list goes on) etc history but I’m a bit limited in my knowledge on the individual histories of those groups

[@urRAWRsoundsfunnyLOL]

@@yoboiboy4182 Yep. If your interested, Google the Ashanti Empire. Now THAT'S West African history that they will never teach.

[@jiyudagohoy4908]

Sand king!

[@houdini5538]

The Nubians were Cushitic people that were apart of the Hamitic race and spoke Afro-Asiatic language, and genetically related to the ancient Egyptians, people still apart of this race are, Ethiopians, Somalis, Beja, Oromo, Afar, and other Cushitic speaking people. Yes their skin colour was dark skin so “black” but not all natives of Africa with black skin are genetically related to them or off the same language family or phenotype, when early Europeans said they weren’t black they meant as in “negroid” black like the ones that lived a primitive life that they took as slaves.

[@charlesspeaksthetruth4334]

The Nubians were jet black Africans. When the racist Europeans stated this civilization wasn't black, that's exactly what they meant. They believed a Light skin people built this civilization, not a black one. Their words and world view was very clear and direct. No room for confusion.

[@evanq5551]

save y'all the trouble: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kush

[@outbeasted]

Are you sure those are pyramids and not just a pile of rocks? Kidding this is cool

[@mikhaelagacud4256]

I need to Google about this

[@guillermoperez2750]

Let's keep it lost.

[@NubiansNapata]

Guillermo Perez Nubia was never lost... only BBC would make such a title.

[@guillermoperez2750]

@@NubiansNapata greetings my friend, I believe you!

[@4WARD5]

Black King Kush

[@mirzashanawaz3728]

The Egyptian pyramids look good, then why these are ruined?

[@onemllnonetoone]

From what I understand, they were smaller to begin with, and an Italian explorer in the 19th century blew up the tops of them while looking for treasure.

[@dipshts1150]

Noice

[@thelastmoogle4659]

Real Life Nathan Drake

[@nid2920]

I didn't even know that there were more pyramids aside from the Egyptian ones

[@billythegoat4557]

nidia m you find them all over the world

[@husseencagta6034]

Sudan land real pharoa

[@bayan6325]

Nubians were cushites n r original pharaoahs... coming from my sudanese colleague

[@soleb542]

No they were nilo saharan some people in kerma were cushitic but overall nilo saharan

[@MotoTravelPoland]

No polish subs ? :(

[@muaazumar3559]

All Amending videos

[@trickshotmonkey]

Where’s Kanye when you need him?

[@kushzulu391]

My first name

[@22vx]

You're begging the question. Preponderance of historically established statistics and trends isn't racist. It may well represent an indicator to something sadly, historically unbalanced, but basing one's prognostications and theories on consideration of established odds isn't racist. It's realist.

[@charlesspeaksthetruth4334]

No! It was Racism. All the evidence from the beginning was pointing to a Black African Origin for this Kushite Civilization but based off of racist ideals. They completely ignored it.

[@22vx]

@@charlesspeaksthetruth4334 false

[@safaiaryu12]

I'm going to use a lot of fancy words and vague phrases to make myself sound intelligent and educated while not really saying anything at all. You sound like a college student BSing a paper to try to reach the minimum word count. Establish an actual hard argument with evidence and try again.

[@22vx]

@@safaiaryu12 So there's a Certified KZbin Comment Instructor on deck and nobody gives me any forewarning? Well that's just GREAT!

[@Kvilla]

Guh

[@kapakapa226]

Ненавижу пустыни, выжженная земля, бывшее дно океана(((((( а пирамиды могут быть краями жерл или застывшей магмой древних вулканов

[@abubakrelsadig1333]

Even ancient Egyptian were black but no one will admit it

[@cgrr8090]

There's plenty of reason to think these people were more akin to arabs than sub saharans as sub saharan movement north is quite recent. There's a significant "arab" population in Sudan that predates the nubian movement into the region.

[@charlesspeaksthetruth4334]

There is no evidence to point to that show that these Ancient Kushite people were arabs or white people. They were a Black African population from the very beginning. The arabs of the sudan exactly came later, when arabs started to spread Islam through out North Africa and The Kushite Kingdom was long gone by then.

[@cgrr8090]

@UCQeNtBTqTIffSBmedbJtq1A I use arab as a euphemism for north African here. This video explicitly states the region traded with and shared religion with Egypt which was of North African descent, the copts being modern descendants. This trade affirms the presence of ethnic copts and its not racist to consider the possibility the Copts founded and settled the region.

[@NubiansNapata]

C Greene I'm Nubian and we're not Arabs and ancient Nubians are not Arabs..Kushite language was related to the Sudanic branch of the nilo Saharan phylum...These are native African languages found along the Nile in northern Sudan and southern Egypt.. Arabic was not in Sudan or Egypt during this era.. Nilo Saharan pastoralist have lived in the Nubian desert 8,000 years ago...

[@bluddxi]

False Arabs found Nubians there during the era of Islamic conquest.

[@bluddxi]

@@cgrr8090 no it was black people that created the Kingdom of Cush

[@-KillaWatt-]

Racism is one of the most overused words today. Racism is defined as a hatred toward someone because of their skin color. Saying the pyramids weren't build by blacks is not racist.

[@jacobv3396]

But their motivation for saying so is.

[@rockey13gt]

i thought this was settled by now. even these pyramids weren't built by black people. the people populating north africa, parts of sudan and the horn of africa were originally one group that separated about 23 thousand years ago from the rest of the humans who migrated out africa. and today they can be divided to three big groups based on the languages they speak: Berbers who inhabit the Maghreb, Egyptians (who today speak arabic), and cushitic languages speakers who inhabit parts of sudan and the horn of africa (most of them today has mixed with africans). all these languages belong to Afro-Asiatic languages family. this Sudanese kingdom was a cushitic kingdom, whose people lost their language (Meriotic language) and got assimilated by an african group. you can read more about them here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cushitic_peoples

[@-KillaWatt-]

@@gasperer That is the conclusion you come to. Which only serves to show YOU think my people are inferior. The fact you automatically go to the train of thought that we're inferior when someone suggests we didn't build these pyramids is true prejudice.

[@-KillaWatt-]

@@jacobv3396 are you the thought police?

[@garrusn7702]

The great pyramids may not have been built by blacks. But these ones most likely were.

[@drewtucker382]

Just had to slip in a little race baiting at the end. Otherwise an interesting video

[@urRAWRsoundsfunnyLOL]

See White boys, we WERE kangs. 💅🏿

[@hey1232]

Yes Indeed we wore

[@bakesy_SA]

Pure racism at 02:50

[@JohnDoe-dw7or]

when is it not racism

[@schplorgus8140]

blah blah blah something about race blah blah religion blah blah blah i have nothing better to do with my time

[@barryirlandi4217]

try posting useless comments....that should cheer you up!!

[@sovietman6555]

pin this

[@nvythmss]

It's racism indeed.

[@sovietman6555]

lul

[@isupportthecurrentthing5225]

Kangz n shiet

[@isupportthecurrentthing5225]

Roger Philips whats a meming

[@Hashslingingslasher-]

That's ..... *RACISM* LOL

[@nid2920]

I didn't even know that there were more pyramids aside from the Egyptian ones .. that's crazy what history just left out

[@--Paws--]

It was kind of known if you follow archaeology topics around pyramids in general. There are pyramids (ziggurats) in Persia, pyramids in China, and of course the pyramids found in Central America.

[@moneymule8209]

*You're a nimwit then...* Pahahahah Pyramids are one of the easiest structures to build when technology isn't a thing, who wouldn't build pyramids for later genrations to look at? Pretty much every country has pyramids in some form or another.

[@Herosennin]

@@moneymule8209 Yea no. Alot Pyramids are easy to rebuild but some like the Gizeh Pyramids we are unable to remake in the same perfect proportions.

[@Toomuchbullshitt]

I didn't know the pyramids were made by lion men who worked for the illuminati in order to go back to their home planet. I've been watching too much bs on the internet.

[@Herosennin]

@Sandcastle • Its true tho. Even in the Atlantic, Indian amd Southeast Asian oceans are pyramids. Actually the pyramid construct is the most widespread construction of older civilizations. Its also quite known that both the Pyramids as the Sfinx are alot older than claimed. Egypt is quite desperately hiding the truth. I mean the oldest structures built by humans are all around 12000 years old(the same age of the Sfinx supposedly) but we still hear that the Gizeh Pyramids(not even the Sfinx lol) are the oldest. Hell that Egyptians actually call them 'pyramids and sfinx' which are European names, shows how deluded this information has become. Its not even about Egypt. They are hiding human history.

[@edwin588]

Amazing

[@horriblehistoriesfan7661]

Wow

[@nid2920]

I didn't even know that there were more pyramids aside from the Egyptian ones .. that's crazy what history just left out

[@nid2920]

I didn't even know that there were more pyramids aside from the Egyptian ones .. that's crazy what history just left out