Until July 25, the Louvre Museum presents 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 the current Sudan.
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 1st 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 Rondotdirector of the Egyptian Antiquities department of the Louvre Museum.
- Faiza Dricico-curator of the exhibition.
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