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Pharaoh of the Two Lands, The African Epic of the Kings of Napata

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The “Pharaoh of the Two Lands” exhibition is on display until July 25 at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

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By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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Until July 25, the Louvre Museum is presenting the 

Pharaoh of the Two Lands

exhibition , a dive into the little-known period of the dynasty of the kings of the Kingdom of Kush, in Nubia, which is today the heart of present-day Sudan. .

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When we think of the Egyptian pharaohs, we immediately think of Tutankhamun, Cheops, Akhenaten or Ramses II.

Unless you are an expert in Egyptology, you probably don't know their distant predecessors Piânkhy, Chabataka, Taharqa or Tanouétamani?

The Louvre Museum makes us discover them thanks to the first exhibition organized in France on the Napatan period.

Napatan, like the city of Napata, capital of the kingdom of Kush, in Nubia, in the heart of present-day Sudan.

It tells how these daring sovereigns who - in the 8th century BC - extended their power in the Nile valley, to the delta, before being crushed by the Assyrians.

A real epic, told over more than 1,000 square meters by some 200 objects.

Stelae and monumental granite statues adorned with hieroglyphs, bronze and gold statuettes and other amulets, objects some of which were discovered during very recent excavations.

The Pharaoh of the Two Lands

exhibition

 is to be discovered at the Louvre until July 25.

Our guests

:

  • Vincent Rondot

    , director of the Egyptian antiquities department of the Louvre Museum.

  • Faïza Drici

    , co-curator of the exhibition.

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 in the West of Cameroon, more than 400 kilometers from the capital, the city of Foumban is considered the most cultural in the country.

There, 

Fabien Essiane

went to discover this city, those who make it proud and who try to safeguard and enhance the local cultural heritage.

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