Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

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. The art adorning this fourth-century B.C. tomb is ...

Taking inspiration from the lavish tombs of previous pharaohs, Piye demanded that he be buried in similar fashion, and became the first member of the kingdom to be commemorated with a pyramid at ...

The parents, Danillo and Catarina Primola, wanted to name their child after Piye, the first in a line of black pharaohs who ruled ancient Egypt, but its pronunciation was a dealbreaker.