This is not actually a pyramids, but a pile of groundnuts that is piled in a pyramid like- form, which i found interesting. This activity use to be common in northern nigeria.

PYRAMIDS ACROSS THE AFRICAN CONTINENT[sub][/sub][sup][/sup]

Aloy emeka No, I am from Northern Sudan near the Egypt border, Yes i do resemble the egypt people i posted. i guess in egypt i am considered darkskinned or asmar. i resemble ethiopians, however many northern sudanese do.

walk like a egyptian. lol
typical day and life in edfu upper egypt.

This man writing have taken the arab and western world by storm. He books deal with comtemporiary issues in modern egypt ranging from, poverty, sexuality and religion. He is also a thorn to both the governement of egypt and to islamist, and a champion of free speech. His book "The Yacoubian Building" which was a best seller throughout the world and made into a movie in Egypt, and his book is translated in many languages. His second book "Chicago" also did well, however this man have not given up his day job, which is dentistry. The author is name Ala Aswany

upper egyptians alternative music band Black Theama

beautiful tour guide at the karnak temple in upper egypt luxor

cute upper egyptian girl poses like a model for fanta soda, and upper egyptian man photographing with beautiful son

wedding reception, and people having a good time in upper egypt

women prepares food for family in upper egypt

darkskined beautiful people in egypt

madlady, what you said is so true! i have to admit without them the history of egypt and sudan would probably been ignored. which i think is sad really, but you do have many sudanese and also egypt archeologist and historian. The most famous in Sudan is Salah Ahmed. He is often in a collusion cousre with egypt hawass. they don't really see eye to eye, if you know what i mean!

madlady, I heard this theory before, and i think it is non sense. Personally,i think Akhenaton looks perfectly normal. I think many scholars don't want to come to terms with his ethnicity. The same like his mother Queen Tiye, some egyptologist don't want to come to terms with her ethnic or so called racial background. However, all the evidence its there, and many people today in upper egypt and northern sudan look very similar to these people on the pictorial i presented on this forum. Also, why would Queen Tiye and Amenopet3 build temples in what is now sudan, since they had control of the middle east, why have not archeologist found any temple their as well. .

new kingdom: the bust of Akhenaton, he is the son of the nubian queen Tiye and Amenhopet 3, and Akhenaton is the presume father of a insufficant called king tut who died at the age of 19

At first i was taken-aback by this statuary due to its similarity to the so called kushitic rule of egypt or 25th dynasty. however, this statue was discovered at the jebal barkal temple in northern sudan. i found this statue at the boston museum of fine art web site. actually, the web site is pretty good, and it is very interactive. you can zoom onto the photo and get more details of the statuary. i highly recommend this web site, it is actually fun.

Statue of Amenhotep III
Egyptian, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, 1386–1349 B.C.

Gebel Barkal, Nubia, Sudan
Overall: 108cm (42 1/2in.)
Case (painted wooden base): 61 x 53.3 x 62.5 cm (24 x 21 x 24 5/8 in.)
Case (Plex-bonnet ): 137.8 x 49.2 x 72.4 cm (54 1/4 x 19 3/8 x 28 1/2 in.)
Peridotite


Classification: Sculpture

On view in the: Egyptian New Kingdom Gallery


Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, 1923
Accession number: 23.734

Provenance/Ownership History: From Nubia (Sudan) Gebel Barkal, Temple B 700. 1923: excavated by the Harvard University-MFA Boston Expedition; assigned to the MFA by the government of the Sudan.
(Accession Date: January 1, 1923)

karnak temple in upper egypt which is closer to northern sudan was first started by the same pharaoh amenhopet 3 which created the soleb temple in northern sudan however the karnak temple was later expanded by proceding pharaohs, unlike soleb which was not. needless to say, notice the similarity of the two temples.

i would like to back of claims from so called reliable established sources. this is the web site i found the statue of queen tiye at the boston museum of fine arts. http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=46188&coll_keywords=&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=0&coll_sort_order=0&coll_view=0&coll_package=2345&coll_start=1

again the soleb solar temple. created by the rulers of this period queen tiye and amenhopet 3

the almost non existant temple in northern sudan called sedeinga, it was a temple dedicated to queen tiye to her husband amenophis 3. along with the temple their a also burials on this particular site. this is not far from the soleb temple which is in a much better condition than sedeinga. hopefully some sought of renovation can start to help preserve the ancient site.

the first bust on this page is of queen Tiye as well, she is the mother of akhenaten and the grand mother of a insufficant pharaoh now celebrated to due to the discovery of his cache king tut. what left of her temple is still in northern sudan. hence the origin of the queen.

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Head of Queen Tiye
Egyptian, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, 1390–1352 B.C.

Height x width x depth: 20.3 x 11.5 x 12 cm (8 x 4 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)
Peridotite


Classification: Sculpture

Object is currently not on view

By the second year of his reign, Amenhotep III was married to his "great royal wife," Queen Tiye. We know more about Tiye than we do about any other Eighteenth-Dynasty queen with the exception of Hatshepsut who ruled as pharaoh. The names of Tiye's parents, both commoners, were proclaimed far and wide on a series of large commemorative scarabs and circulated throughout the empire - an unheard-of practice. No previous queen figured so prominently in her husband's lifetime.

Just as many images of Amenhotep III show him as a god, this head of Queen Tiye shows her as a goddess. The attributes of the goddess Hathor - cow horns and sun disks - on her headdress emphasize her role as the king's divine, as well as earthly, partner. She even has the king's facial features. In contrast, the large enveloping wig, encircled by a floral wreath and a band of rosettes, is not a conventional goddess's hairdo but that of a contemporary lady of fashion. The combination of divine and queenly attributes intentionally blurs the lines between deity and mortal ruler.

The head was acquired in the Sudan and is carved of Sudanese stone. It very likely comes from Amenhotep III's temple to his queen at Sedeinga in northern Sudan, where Tiye was worshipped as a form of Hathor. Her memory survives there today in the name of the neighboring village, which is locally known as Adey, from Hut Tiye, "the mansion of Tiye." The temple at Sedeinga was the pendant to Amenhotep III's own, larger temple at Soleb, about 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) to the south. Indeed, the emphasis on the queen's role as the king's divine female counterpart provided the model for Nefertiti in the reign of Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) and anticipated the divine queens of the Ptolemaic Dynasty.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

new kingdom art

new kingdom art

madlady:
These last 18th dynasty works are very similar to works accredited to the 16th dynasty.
The dates that have been accepted for many years are all now under review.

They are wonderful none the less.

I Hope you keep posting on this section, this is one of the main reasons I am still visiting this site.

Thank you for all your hard work

Thank you again madlady, i will research what you told me in reference to these new dates, madlady, and thank you again.

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Pictorial art of the dominant class(or ethnic group) or royality in the New Kingdom.

Here is a map of the New Kingdom Dynasty in ancient Egypt or Kemet. The New Kingdom territory included parts of the northern middle east and it included part of Northern Sudan, as far as the third cataracts.