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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Amun: [QB] Its really hard to single out one Pharoah. I have a few. Here are my 3 favorites: 1 - Taharka 2 - Akhenaten 3 - Hatshepsut I will post on Taharka first: From [URL=http://www.Nubianet.org]www.Nubianet.org[/URL] [QUOTE] The greatest of the Kushite pharaohs was Taharqa, who ruled twenty-six years. A son of Piankhy by a minor wife, he came to Egypt as a youth. After a distinguished career in the army, he succeeded to the throne of Shebitqo in 690 BC at the age of about 32. In his first decade, he won significant military victories over eastern and western desert peoples, controlled the western oases and established an Egyptian sphere of influence over the Phoenician port cities and Philistia. He was also the most prolific and original builder of his age. His misfortunes came in the latter half of his reign. His two predecessors had provoked the Assyrian kings (ruling what is now northern Iraq) by conspiring with the petty rulers of Palestine, Phoenicia, and Judah to block their military advance to the east. The effort had been futile. By 674 BC the Assyrians had reached the Mediterranean, had brought all of Taharqa's Near Eastern allies into submission, and now focused their wrath on Egypt itself. They attempted invasions almost annually and finally forced Taharqa in 669 to withdraw ignominiously to Napata, after losing his army, his capital Memphis, his treasure, his chief wife and sons to the enemy. Within five years he was dead, buried in a colossal (but now much ruined) pyramid at Nuri, which is visible from the summit of Gebel Barkal and about 6 mi (10 km) distant on the opposite bank. Taharqa's nephew and successor Tanutaman (ca. 664-653 BC), a son of Shabaqo, was able to re-enact successfully the achievement of his father and uncle by reconquering Egypt one more time in 663 B.C. However, the Assyrians returned the following year with a vengeance and expelled him and his dynasty from Egypt for the last time. The ensuing Assyrian sack of Thebes was a disaster from which the Egyptian Amun cult never fully recovered. The subsequent seizure of Upper Egypt by the kings of Sais in the Delta - who had collaborated with the Assyrians against the Kushites - must have been perplexing events for the Nubian priests and galling events for the Nubian kings, whose formerly vast kingdom was now restricted to the northern Sudan. [/QUOTE] More Interesting info on Taharka [QUOTE] In 700 B.C during the 25 dynasty in Egypt, when the Ethiopian Warrior-Prince Taharka was a young general, but before he had been ceded the throne by his uncle Shabataka. It is this same Taharka (referred to in early Spanish chronicles as Tarraco) that led a garrison into Spain and invaded it during this period. There is clear and indisputable reference to this in a manuscript by Florian de Ocampo, Cronica General published in Medina del Campo in 1553. The name of the invading general is given as Tarraco. He is not only identified as head of the Ethiopian army. The reference is more specific. It says he was later to become a king of Egypt. The name, the period, the historical fact of his generalship and his later kingship of Egypt, his Ethiopian origin and the wide ranging trade and exploration of the Ethiopian in this period, all attest to the validity of this reference. Also the most persuasive of all is the fact that cartouches of the Upper Egyptian kings of this period have been found in Spain!Evidence of such cartouches may be found in the journal of the Epigraphic Society (Vol.7, No. 171-April 1971)[Golden Age of the Moor by Ivan Van Sermita] Taharka was evem mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, under the name 'Taharqa'. Taharka[Taharqa/Tarraco] Also led a Army into Palestine to support the Israelite king Hezekiah against the Assyrians; Defending Israel who was his ally. He is therefore in the Bible in two places, 2 Kings 19:9, and Isaiah 37:9. For this and other feats, Strabo [Greek Scholar] included Taharka in a list of history's greatest conquerors. Taharka was also mentioned by Another Roman historian, Diodorus of Sicily. [/QUOTE] I am an aspiring film maker and have long considered writing a screenplay about Taharqa. Any suggestions? [IMG]http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/630000/images/_630747_statue300.jpg[/IMG] This is a great topic and I will post more on it later on... [This message has been edited by Amun (edited 26 February 2003).] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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