Black Kingdom of the Nile

About the author

Charles Bonnet—a world-renowned archaeologist—began excavations in modern-day Sudan over fifty years ago and established the site of the capital of the Kingdom of Kush in the mid-second millennium BCE. He was instrumental in building a museum in Sudan to preserve the statues found at the site.Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the author of numerous books and has written extensively on the history of race and anti-Black racism in the Enlightenment. His most recent works include Stony the Road and The Black Church. He is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

Summary

For centuries, Egyptian civilization has been at the origin of the story we tell about the West. But Charles Bonnet’s archaeological excavations have unearthed extraordinary sites in modern Sudan that challenge this notion and compel us to look to black Africa and the Nubian Kingdom of Kush, where a highly civilized state existed 2500–1500 BCE.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Bonnet, Bonnet Charles
• Assisted by: Henry Louis Gates (Foreword)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.05.2019
• EAN: 9780674986671
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98667-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Africa / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Ancient History, African History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, African history: pre-colonial period, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity