Once vassals to pharaohs ... British Museum/Scala, Florence This black basalt slab which has greatly enhanced scholars’ understanding of Egyptian theology, was inscribed on the orders of ...

Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into ... Piye became the first pharaoh of Egypt’s 25th dynasty (ca 770-656 B.C.), the so-called Black Pharaohs. The tomb of Queen Khennuwa in Meroë.