#ancient sudan

[spiritsdancinginthenight]

gold and enamel earring with hathor and rosette meroitic period, nubia, meroe, c. 90 b.c. –50 a.d. boston museum of fine arts. 23.341

[ancientstuff]

For once, this kind of headline might actually be true and not hyperbole.

[zorubark]

the ancient greeks literally named the aethiopians after "burned face", made multiple sculptures and pottery of heads that are clearly black, but Andromeda still got portrayed as white even though everything points to her being black

[zorubark]

Did you guys know Andromeda was most likely black? She came from a place cale Aethiopia,

Ancient Aethiopia, (Greek: Αἰθιοπία, romanized: Aithiopía; also known as Ethiopia) first appears as a geographical term in classical documents in reference to the upper Nile region of Sudan, areas south of the Sahara, and certain areas in Asia. Its earliest mention is in the works of Homer: twice in the Iliad,[1] and three times in the Odyssey.[2] The Greek historian Herodotus uses the appellation to refer to such parts of sub-Saharan Africa as were then known within the inhabitable world.

The Greek name Aithiopia (Αἰθιοπία, from Αἰθίοψ, Aithíops, 'an Ethiopian') is a compound derived of two Greek words: αἴθω, aíthō, 'I burn' + ὤψ, ṓps, 'face'. According to the Perseus Project, this designation properly translates in noun form as burnt-face and in adjectival form as red-brown.[4][5] As such, it was used as a vague term for darker skinned populations than the Greeks since the time of Homer.[i][6] The term was applied to such peoples within the range of observation of the ancient geographers, primarily in what was then Nubia (in ancient Sudan).

Nubia had many queens, princesses, kings, so Andromeda being a nubian princess is likely! There's debate on where exactly she is from, since myths are a difficult thing to track down, but when I searched about it Nubia is one of the options that make more sense.

Happy Black History Month! I just wanted to dump my Andromeda lore and spread some awareness that she was in fact, not greek at all, like many may think!

Perseus and Andromeda (Frederick Leighton, 1891)

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Head of a statue of Dionysos.

Culture: Greek

Period: Late Hellenistic

Date: 150–50 B.C.

Place of origin: Nubia (Sudan), Meröe (Begrawiya), Pyramid N 5

Medium: Bronze, silver, shell

[memories-of-ancients]

Gold rams head amulet, Kingdom of Kush (Sudan), 712-664 BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[wormsngods]

Sudanese Ancestry

On account of my 0.3% Sudanese ancestry (whopping I know), I will be making a reading list and a watch list for (historical) Sudanese/Ancient Egypt centric content, recommendations are appreciated although I doubt there are any Sudanese people on here who will encounter my post but fingers crossed.

Reading List (unfinished)

• Papyrus of Ani

• Ethiopian Apocrypha

• Funj Chronicle

• Stelae of Piye

Would appreciate if someone could point me in the direction of english sudanese texts that focus more on traditional life and history rather than contemporary issues with an emphasis on the Funj, Alodia, Makuria, Nobatia, Kush and the 25th Dynasty of Egypt.

Watch List (most of this is crypto racist propaganda)

• The Egyptian

• The Ten Commandments

• Khartoum

• The Four Feathers

• Storm over the Nile

• Tajouje (Can not find this for the life of me)

Once again would love to come in contact with Sudanese people or people more well versed on the subject to give pointers.

[ancientegyptdaily]

Jebel Barkal (Arabic: جبل بركل) is a mesa or large rock outcrop located 400 km north of Khartoum, next to Karima in Northern State in Sudan, on the Nile River, in the region that is sometimes called Nubia. The jebel is 104 m tall, has a flat top, and came to have religious significance for both ancient Kush and ancient Egyptian occupiers. In 2003, the mountain, together with the extensive archaeological site at its base (ancient Napata), were named as the center of a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. [X]

[lord-of-tomatoes]

Hello, for the requests - Could you do Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt on a playdate with their kids? And could the kids include my Sicily OC? 👉🏻👈🏻 I just think that in the Hetaverse, he regards the time of the Greek city states on the island as the last proper time he was free and its own player on the world stage, so Baby Sicily has very fond memories of Ancient Greece and her baby son (and there were also always trade/diplomatic links in history between Sicily and Egypt, though they waned throughout times due to different foreign rules). Also, I am convinced Sicily bit every last colonist that first came to the island and none of the personifications of the indigineous peoples knew where that feral forest kid comes from, but I'm sure he's a well-behaved playmate with other nation kids. Anyways, here's the adult Sicilian for reference, just babify him:

Ok so i misread this as Egypt and Greece on a playdate with their kids and i thought you wanted sicily to be Greeces kid

So i decided to make them take their siblings on a playdate instead of their kids cause i didn't feel like making a kid oc for Egypt

But then i realised that you said ANCIENT Egypt and ANCIENT Greece so uh

Here's your actual request

They're hanging out during the time of Alexander the great ig idk

[thehereticpharaoh]

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.

[ancientstuff]

Interesting find. It would be wonderful if this could be proven.

[zorubark]

egyptians be like "stop invading our land you're subservient to egypt dumbasses!!"

my brother in amun we are the rightful rulers

this post was made by the kings of Kush

[thoughtportal]

Join Dr. Andrea Myers Achi, Mary and Michael Jaharis Associate Curator of Byzantine Art in The Met’s Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, for a virtual tour of Africa & Byzantium. Art history has long emphasized the glories of the Byzantine Empire (circa 330–1453), but less known are the profound artistic contributions of North Africa, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, and other powerful African kingdoms whose pivotal interactions with Byzantium had a lasting impact on the Mediterranean world. Bringing together a range of masterworks—from mosaic, sculpture, pottery, and metalwork to luxury objects, paintings, and religious manuscripts—this exhibition recounts Africa’s central role in international networks of trade and cultural exchange. With artworks rarely or never before seen in public, Africa & Byzantium sheds new light on the staggering artistic achievements of medieval Africa. This long-overdue exhibition highlights how the continent contributed to the development of the premodern world and offers a more complete history of the vibrant multiethnic societies of north and east Africa that shaped the artistic, economic, and cultural life of Byzantium and beyond.

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Statue of Lady Sennuwy.

Period: Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, reign of Senusret I

Date: ca. 1971-1926 B.C.

Place of origin: Lower Nubia (Sudan), Kerma, Tumulus K III.

Medium: Granodiorite

[occvltswim]

Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization

[darrylcalmandstrong09]

New Blog. A Journey to my Motherland: Alkebu-lan (Africa): Land of the Spirit People

“To keep the picture as clear as possible, we have to keep on remembering that at various periods in ancient times, the ‘Land of the Blacks’ meant all Ethiopia, all Ethiopia meant all Africa, and all Blacks were Africans or Ethiopians or Thebans, etc.” – Dr. Chancellor Williams, author of The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D.

To find out more about the lifestyle and history of Black people during ancient and medieval Africa before foreign invasions, click here: https://rb.gy/n0l92z