If you drive north from Khartoum along a narrow desert road toward the ancient city of Meroë, a breath taking view emerges from beyond the mirage: dozens of steep pyramids piercing the horizon. No matter how many times you may visit, there is an awed sense of discovery.
In Meroë itself, once the capital of the Kingdom of Kush, the road
divides the city. To the east is the royal cemetery, packed with close to 50
sandstone and red brick pyramids of varying heights; many have broken tops, the
legacy of 19th-century European looters. To the west is the royal city, which
includes the ruins of a palace, a temple and a royal bath. Each structure has a
distinctive architecture that draws on local, Egyptian and Greco-Roman
decorative tastes ― evidence of
Meroe’s global connections.
A Brief History of The “Land Of Kush”
Sudan’s Forgotten Nubian PyramidsThe first settlers in northern Sudan date back 300,000 years. It is home to the oldest sub-Saharan African kingdom, the kingdom of Kush (about 2500-1500 BC). This culture produced some of the most beautiful pottery in the Nile valley, including Kerma beakers.
Sudan was coveted for its rich natural resources particularly gold,
ebony and ivory. Several objects in the British Museum collection are made of
these materials. Ancient Egyptians were attracted southward seeking these
resources during the Old Kingdom (about 2686-2181 BC), which often led to
conflict as Egyptian and Sudanese rulers sought to control trade.
the fifth cataract, and major cities and sites of the ancient Egyptian
Dynastic period (3150 BC to 30 BC) (map: Jeff Dahl, CC Y-SA 4.0)
Kush was the most powerful state in the Nile valley around 1700 BC. The conflict between Egypt and Kush followed, culminating in the conquest of Kush by Thutmose I (1504-1492 BC). In the west and south, Neolithic cultures remained as both areas were beyond the reach of the Egyptian rulers.
The City of Meroë And The Strange Mural Painting of A Giant Carrying
Elephants
The city of Meroë is marked by more than two hundred pyramids, of which
many are in ruins. They have the distinctive size and proportions of Nubian
pyramids.
The site of Meroë was brought to the knowledge of Europeans in 1821 by the French mineralogist Frédéric Cailliaud (1787-1869). The most interesting objects found were the reliefs and paintings on the walls of the sepulchral chambers. One of the paintings depicts a giant of enormous proportions carrying two elephants.
His features are not Nubian but caucasian and his hair is light in
colour. Will this mural painting be proof of the existence of a race of
red-haired giants with six fingers in antiquity?
In The Distant Past, Did Giants Really Roam Around The Nile
Valley?
In 79 AD, the Roman historian Josephus Flavius wrote that the last of
the race of Egyptian giants did live in the 13th century BC, during the reign
of King Joshua. He further wrote that they had huge bodies, and their faces
were so unlike ordinary humans that it was amazing to look at them, and it was
scary to listen to their loud voice which was like a lion roar.
Moreover, many of the wall paintings of ancient Egypt depict the builders of Pyramids as “Giant People” by the size of 5 to 6 meters tall. According to experts, these giant people were able to lift 4 to 5 tons of blocks individually. Some of those ancient mural paintings showed giant kings ruling ancient Egypt, while some depicted comparably little-sized servants under the giant people.
In 1988, Gregor Spoerri, a Swiss entrepreneur and a passionate admirer of the history of Ancient Egypt, met with a gang of robbers of ancient burials through one of the private suppliers in Egypt. The meeting took place in a small house in Bir Hooker, a hundred kilometres northeast of Cairo, where Spoerri witnessed a giant mummified finger wrapped in rags.
The finger was very dry and light. According to Spoerri, the incredible creature to which it belonged should have been at least 5 meters (almost 16.48ft) in height. To prove the authenticity, one tomb raider showed a photo of an X-Ray of the mummified finger taken in the 1960s.
Originally published on Ancient History.
Source : collective-spark.xyz
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When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with[a] humans forever, for they are mortal[b]; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
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5 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. 6 The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7 So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
Noah and the Flood
9 This is the account of Noah and his family.
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark. Genesis 6