The Black kingdom of the Nile / Charles Bonnet, with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Bonnet, Charles, 1933- author.; Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., writer of foreword.
2019
DT159.6.N83 B65 2019eb
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Title The Black kingdom of the Nile / Charles Bonnet, with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Author Bonnet, Charles, 1933- author.
ISBN 9780674239036 (electronic book)
0674239032 (electronic book)
9780674986671
0674986679
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 209 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number DT159.6.N83 B65 2019eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 939/.7801
Summary For the past fifty years, Charles Bonnet has been excavating sites in present-day Sudan and Egypt that point to the existence of a sophisticated ancient black African civilization thriving alongside the Egyptians. In The Black Kingdom of the Nile, he gathers the results of these excavations to reveal the distinctively indigenous culture of the black Nubian city of Kerma, the capital of the Kingdom of Kush. This powerful and complex political state organized trade to the Mediterranean basin and built up a military strong enough to resist Egyptian forces. Further explorations at Dukki Gel, north of Kerma, reveal a major Nubian fortified city of the mid-second millennium BCE featuring complex round and oval structures. Bonnet also found evidence of the revival of another powerful black Nubian society, seven centuries after Egypt conquered Kush around 1500 BCE, when he unearthed seven life-size granite statues of black Pharaohs (ca. 744-656 BCE). Bonnet's discoveries have shaken our understanding of the origins and sophistication of early civilization in the heart of black Africa. Until Bonnet began his work, no one knew the extent and power of the Nubian state or the existence of the black pharaohs who presided successfully over their lands. The political, military, and commercial achievements revealed in these Nubian sites challenge our long-held belief that the Egyptians were far more advanced than their southern neighbors and that black kingdoms were effectively vassal states. Charles Bonnet's discovery of this lost black kingdom forces us to rewrite the early history of the African continent.-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Nathan I. Huggins lectures.
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Part 1. Kerma, capital of Nubia: History of the expedition
The fortress at the beginning of early Kerma
The early Kerma City
The middle Kerma City
The classic Kerma City
The port area and temple
A royal tomb
Part 2. Dukki Gel, an African city, and the mnnw of Thutmose I: The site of Dukki Gel
The ceremonial city of Dukki Gel
A later intervention in Palace A
The Egyptian conquest of Nubia
The mnnw of Thutmose I
Fortifications
Egyptian temples and native cult installations***
Egyptian palaces
The resumption of power by the king of Kerma and his allies
Nubian and African remains after Thutmose I
Fortifications
Cult buildings
Part 3. Pnubs during the New Kingdom, Napatan, and Meroitic periods
Restoration of the mnnw by Thutmose II and Hatshepsut
Northern fortifications
Northwest gate and foregate
Southern fortifications
Egyptian temples and native places of worship
The palace of Hatshepsut
The second mnnw
Occupation of the territory by Thutmose III
Fortifications
Egyptian temples and native places of worship
A ceremonial palace
The ancient city of Pnubs, pacified
Remains of Thutmose IV at Pnubs
The Amarna reform
The main temple dedicated to Aten
The Ramesside occupation
The Kushite kingship
The Napatan kingdom
Dukki Gel in the Meroitic period
A reconstructed temple
The central temple
Two palaces.

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