Egypt Suing Netflix Over Changing Cleopatra's Race

[petro]

 

[westwall]

Jesus! It's just a movie!

It claims to be a documentary

 

[miketx]

It claims to be a documentary

I dunno, I don't think they had camera back then, but I suppose it possible.

 

[Batcat]

History is interesting. Cleopatra may not have been black but blacks did rule Egypt for about 60 years.

Nubia's Black Pharaohs

Will a lost coronation temple reveal how the ancient Nubians rose up and seized the throne of the mighty Egyptians?

www.discovermagazine.com

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But in the eighth century B.C., Nubia turned the tables on its former colonizers. Its armies marched 700 miles north from Jebel Barkal to Thebes, the spiritual capital of Egypt. There the Nubian king Piye became the first of a succession of five "black pharaohs" who ruled Egypt for six decades with the blessing of the Egyptian priesthood. What happened? asks Kendall. How did the Nubians, overrun by Egypt for centuries, crush their colonizers? And why did the priests of Thebes decide the black pharaohs had a mandate from heaven? Kendall has been searching for those answers for 20 years. They can be revealed, he believes, by cracking a code of geomorphological symbols at Jebel Barkal and by parsing hieroglyphic texts that refer to the mountain as Dju-wa'ab, or "Pure Mountain." "I feel as if I'm deciphering a mythological puzzle," Kendall says. "It's a real mystery story."