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Father and founder of the 25th Dynasty, his reign lasted for thirty years. ” Gods make a king, man make a king, but Amun made me.”Īlthough not given credit in mainstream academia, Pharaoh Alara was the first to unify upper Egypt, establishing Napada as the religious Capitol in Nubia. Original Photo Kings of Kush – 25th Dynasty These rich new discoveries negate current Egyptology academics, who insist that all great civilizations originated in Egypt and Mesopotamia, however new DNA, archeology and anthropology studies conclude these were not the first great civilization and that Egypt’s roots of origin flow undeniably back into ancient African. New archeological discoveries have recently proven that earlier Egyptian lineage origins flow from Ethiopia ( Grandmother ) to Nubia ( Mother ) to Kemet aka Egypt (Child ). It was also called Ethiopia by the Greeks, Romans and 19th & early 20th century writers. Today this region is located in modern Sudan, with a small portion crossing into southern Egypt also known as the Land of Ham, by the ancient Egyptians, Libyans, Assyrians, Hebrews, and Persians. Lost in antiquity and shrouded in mystery, ancient Nubia (another name for Kush), extended south along the Nile River from the First Cataract to the Shubaluga Gorge (Sixth Cataract ). These same kings were students of the ancient mystery schools of Africa, worshippers of Amun (one God), and the Laws of Ma’at. They thrived, prospered and ruled for thousands of years BCE. In the land of Kush, there lived a great, grand, highly enlighten civilization of sophisticated, charismatic, powerful and compassionate African kings, who would become Egyptian Pharaohs.

*Once upon a time, in the ancient past, Before the Common Era (BCE), in an time most European scholars refer to as the mythical “dark ages.” Via Internet Archive.Kings of Kush, Amenirdis I Pharaohs Egyptian 25th Dynasty

Chuma Nwokolo, Jr.'s poem "Ram" about the statue in the Ashmolean Museum.

Photograph of one of the statues arriving at Queen's College, Oxford.

^ Announcement of the November 2011 re-opening of the Ashmolean's Egyptian and Nubian, with pictures of artefacts, including one of the ram.

G.", "Granite Ram from the Sudan" British Museum Quarterly 8, online at

^ The BM website says it is now at the National Museum of Khartoum as of March 2009 it was in Oxford as it featured on bus advertisements for the Museum, with a young boy posing in his rugby gear next to the statue.

Nicholson and Ian Shaw (eds), Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology (Cambridge 2000), p. 34

Amenophis III, Le Pharaon-Soleil,(Catalogue de l'exposition de 1993 au Grand Palais, Paris 1993) Paris, 1993, p. 184 a].

Mysliwiec, Karol Royal Portraiture of the Dynasties XXI-XXX, 1988, pp. 33, 40.

The third statue is displayed in the yard of the National Museum of Sudan, Khartoum. In 2005, the then- writer-in-residence at the Ashmolean Museum, Chuma Nwokolo, Jr, wrote a poem inspired by the statue and other exhibits about Taharqa. The Ashmolean statue is displayed in the redesigned Egyptian and Nubian galleries, opened in 2011. A hieroglyphic inscription runs round the sides of the plinth from front to back and proclaims Taharqa as the son of Amun and Mut, Lady of Heaven, 'who fully satisfies the heart of his father Amun'.

A hole in the top of the ram's head indicates where a gilded disk would originally have fitted. The ram is lying on its stomach with its forelegs folded under it, and between them it protects a standing figure of King Taharqa. The base of the statue is 1.63m long and 0.63m wide, and the statue is 1.06m high. The British Museum's example was acquired in 1933 from Professor Griffith's Oxford Excavations in Nubia. The pairing ram to the one at the British Museum is held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, where many of the artefacts from the excavations at Kawa are held. Two sets of paired sandstone bases, in front of the first and second pylons respectively, were found at the western approach to the stone temple, and figures of rams were found on two of them. The rams were found by Professor Francis Llewellyn Griffith during his excavations at the temple in 1930–1931. The ram is one of the animals sacred to Amun and several temples dedicated to Amun, including the one at Karnak, featured ram or ram-headed sphinx statues. Construction of the stone temple was started in 683 BC by the pharaoh Taharqa. Granite statue of Amun in the form of a ram protecting King Taharqa, British Museum.Īt least three ancient Egyptian granitic gneiss statues of Amun in the form of a ram protecting King Taharqa were displayed at the Temple of Amun at Kawa in Nubia.