BBC.Lost Kingdoms of Africa. Nubia. 4/6

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Four-part series in which British art historian Dr Gus Casely-Hayford explores the pre-colonial history of some of Africa's most important kingdoms.

The African continent is home to nearly a billion people. It has an incredible diversity of communities and cultures, yet we know less of its history than almost anywhere else on earth.

But that is beginning to change. In the last few decades, researchers and archaeologists have begun to uncover a range of histories as impressive and extraordinary as anywhere else in the world.

The series reveals that Africa's stories are preserved for us in its treasures, statues and ancient buildings - in the culture, art and legends of the people.

The first episode looks at Nubia, in what is now northern Sudan, a kingdom that dominated a vast area of the eastern Sahara for thousands of years. Its people were described as barbarians and mercenaries, and yet Nubia has left us with some of the most spectacular monuments in the world.

Casely-Hayford traces the origins of this fascinating kingdom back to 10,000 BC. He explores how it developed and what happened to it and its people, discovering that its kings once ruled Ancient Egypt and that it was defeated not by its rivals but by its environment.

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[Prophetess7]

My professor from the Sudan taught me that Nubia existed before Egypt, and the pyramids in Nubian are older than the pyramids in Egypt.

Now I am confused

[Ziggurathss]

@Prophetess7 8th century BCE until 4th century CE

[bcolemaqn16]

I don't like that this BBC production has a host of African heritage referring to the Egyptians as though they are not African.This perpetuates lies and confusion and strips Africans of their intellectual prowess. Start listening around 9 mins and the suggestion becomes obvious.

The builders of the pyramids however hard to fathom this may be for some, were unarguably built by black Africans not genetically dissimilar to Nubians. The forefathers of the Egyptian Empire were African.

[parisfaith]

if it wasnt Nubia Egypt wouldn't Exist. I have Nuiban and some Egyptisn family.

[supergod2011]

go smoke some crack

[MeechB316]

If you think that therer was some random ancient white/arab kingdom just sitting next to nubia? then you obviously are deaf dumb and blind. wake up brothers and sisters. Egypt was undoubtably Black African until its later dynasties. the Nubian they speak of in this video were taking back their land. until they were over ran by asiatics and eventually macedonia/Ptolemy/Cleopatra

[MeechB316]

@Prophetess7 thats wat i was taught and have found myself in research. remember the Egyptians came from the south(Nubia/Kush) before settling in Egypt

[Ancientafrica]

Nubia were the ancient Egyptian.

[zondrah89]

ugh....the majority of the comments below are disgusting. just watch the show plz and save your hate for the real world -- I for one do not want to read about it.

[rossmeroe]

This program is more disinfo craftily designed to separate Egypt from BLACK Africa.

[TemplarX2]

@darrouken Shut your mouth before I break it, stupid nigger. we need more intelligent people like him not some crack selling, welfare collecting negro.

[ZionHillCalling]

@bcolemaqn16 check the paintings from san torini

[Akanaten08]

If will smith does that would so go see it

[ervgotti3]

@ANKHRASET

You got that right............SMH