Spotlight at the Louvre on the Sudanese pharaohs

They are called Chabaka, Taharqa or even Tanouétamani, and, no, they are not

characters .

They are pharaohs.

Those of the XXVth dynasty (713-655 BC), much less famous than the Ramses, much more recent than a Thutankhamun, whose brief reign was about six and a half centuries earlier.

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Not without courage, the Louvre chose to illuminate them with often colossal statues in dark granite, sometimes from Khartoum, terracotta vases and gold jewelry.

This in a scenography made of enlargements of photos of archaeological sites and above all of a profusion of epigraphic pieces, cartouches, stelae, tables or rather intimidating sheets of stampings for the novice in hieroglyphics.

The museum even devotes its entire Napoleon hall to the conquering epic of these sovereigns from the region of the fourth cataract of the Nile.

Or the heart of present-day Sudan.

Modern historians call them the Black Pharaohs.

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