Pharaon des deux Terres – l’épopée africaine des rois de Napata

Pharaon des deux Terres – l’épopée africaine des rois de Napata : Le roi Taharqa et le faucon Hemen. Paris, musée du Louvre. Département des Antiquités égyptiennes © Musée du Louvre    Pharaon des deux Terres – l’épopée africaine des rois de Napata : Paris, musée du Louvre © Musée du Louvre, RS Yoko Sfoggia    Pharaon des deux Terres – l’épopée africaine des rois de Napata : Contrepoids de collier menat au nom de Taharqa avec scene dallaitement du roi. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art © The Metropolitan Museum of Art   


The exhibition


Black Pharaohs matter

If the construction of Lake Nasser had not forced the great Egyptian temples of Nubia to be raised to higher ground, would we still remember the epic of the Black Pharaohs, who unified Kush with Egypt in the eighth century BC? Celebrating their ten years of French excavations in Sudan, the Louvre resurrects the splendor of the five great kings of Napata, from Piânkhy to Taharqa and Tanouétamani, in the shadow of Linant de Bellefonds, Verdi or Michel Ocelot. An excess of world.

Extract from the article by Emmanuel Daydé published in the number 102 of the magazine Art Absolument, published on July 13, 2022.

When


18/04/2022 - 25/07/2022
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