was thoroughly Egyptian itself.Moving beyond recent debates between Afrocentrists and their critics over the racial characteristics of Egyptian civilization, From Slave to Pharaoh reveals the true complexity of race, identity, and power in Egypt as documented through surviving texts and artifacts, while at the same time providing a compelling account of war, conquest, and culture in the ancient world.
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Indeed, by the time of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, the culture of the Kushite kings who conquered Egypt in the late eighth century B.C. He also describes the range of responses-from resistance to assimilation-of subjugated Nubians and Sudanese to their loss of self-determination. The 2,300-year-old royal tomb of a Kushite king appears nearly untouchedand submerged in rising groundwater. Redford focuses on the role of racial identity in the formulation of imperial power in Egypt and the legitimization of its sphere of influence, and he highlights the dichotomy between the Egyptians' treatment of the black Africans it deemed enemies and of those living within Egyptian society. Dive beneath the pyramids of Sudans black pharaohs. by an invading Assyrian army.Redford traces the development of Egyptian perceptions of race as their dominance over the darker-skinned peoples of Nubia and the Sudan grew, exploring the cultural construction of spatial and spiritual boundaries between Egypt and other African peoples.
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These interactions resulted in the expulsion of the black Kushite pharaohs of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty in 671 B.C. Redford examines over two millennia of complex social and cultural interactions between Egypt and the Nubian and Sudanese civilizations that lay to the south of Egypt. These pharaohs came from the renowned Kingdom of Kush, which is one of the ancient civilisations. Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleIn From Slave to Pharaoh, noted Egyptologist Donald B. The museum has also purchased a funerary figurine of Pharaoh Taharqa (690-664 BC), one of the black pharaohs from Sudan. History has, however, shown us that there was a time Ancient Egypt was ruled by black pharaohs.