What happened to the lost Kingdom of Kush? - Geoff Emberling 

As a Nubian from Sudan, it's so amazing to finally see our history being talked about and enjoyed by so many. It's often overlooked or grouped in with Ancient Egypt when it fully deserves its own focus

when the kushites and romans dapped each other up, that was pretty cool.

As a lover of history, I think all African history is grossly under studied and taught. There are probably many great discoveries and lessons waiting for the western world.

The first time I ever heard of Kush, was aged 17 when Nas released “I Can” and speaks of “Empires in Africa called Kush”. Imagine learning about this via hip hop and not Bia the curriculum

Lovely animation would love more on ancient African civilizations, like Benin, Wolof, and Axum, there's so much to explore

Stealing the bronze head of Augustus and burying it under your temple so your worshippers can walk on it is a pretty baller move. Also, these animations are gorgeous - bringing me strong Age of Empires I vibes.

I’m Nubian from north Sudan Thank you for this beautiful video and for recounting part of our history. Today, some Dutch scholars discovered a very old church in the Kerma region.

I did a group presentation in high school about Kush/Nubia. This was one of most meaningful projects I’ve ever done.

I went to Meroe, the ancient Kingdom of Kush, in 2018. Amazing site. We were the only ones there. However, it is not receiving any support for maintenance or restoration. I hope it endures, and that Sudan calms, so that more can witness its beauty.

3:35 that handshake though

Didn't know I had a kingdom!

The Kush were badass. Why did I never learn this before?

The narration gives me a bedtime story vibe. So relaxing

History is littered with forgotten civilizations. I remember reading about the Kushite pyramids, how they have a steeper angle to that of the Egyptian pyramids and usually have a temple at the front. They do look wonderful.

i'm extremely proud to have participated in two digging campaigns at the royal cemetary of meroe and the urban site of hamadab. geoff is right, when stating that this cultural context has been overlooked for too long. a shame that most of the sites where allready axcavated in the 1920s and very poorly documented...

African history is something that should be studied more.

We’re here now with a bad case of amnesia; having parents as gods seems to be a threat to the modern society.

As someone who is currently studying Western Civilization I so excited to ask my teacher about this! So cool!

Thank goodness we can learn real history that was hidden from the masses! Thanks for sharing!

Reading the title I thought this was about the Kushan Empire, The Indian Step Kingdom. Never heard of this one. Interesting video.

"They built temples to a new god", what happened to the old god, did he die?!

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God I hope we can decipher Kush's writing one day. There's so much I hope scholars can learn about Kush. It's one of my favorite African civilizations to study. Also brilliant art style in the video!

I loved this video! But these are just my thoughts. 1. Why start the video, with Egypt’s invasion & influence into Kush? The cultural/religious exchange between Nubia & Egypt was not one way & predated Egypt’s occupation. While, Egypt influenced Kush, the Nubians historically influenced Egypt as well, influence flowed both ways. Why not talk about Nubia’s influence on Egyptian technology & religion/culture? Apedemak was not the only god unique to Kush (how is Apedemak “new”). 2. Nubian people’s homeland stretches from “upper Egypt” (Aswan) through Sudan (the borders making up South Sudan being found in 2011). 3. The Nubians are as old as the Egyptians, although the Nubians unified together later than the Egyptian unification. 4. “Some have argued”, is a borderline lie in & of itself. It’s been documented that Kush was (is) intentionally “overlooked”. Nubia was removed from history by not only American & European historians, but also by many Latino, Arab & modern-Egyptian scholars. While some scholars attempted to paint Kush as a Middle Eastern or Arab civilization, most resorted to segregating it from mainstream history or simply ignoring it. According to a WBUR article, George Andrew Reisner an American Egyptologist, born two years after the end of the US Civil War, (unsurprisingly) pushed the false idea that Africans could not create civilizations. According to Denise Doxey -“Reisner certainly got wrong this idea that the Nubians were never able to create any wonderful art or important monuments on their own. And he attributed everything that was really of high artistic value or really monumental as being Egyptian influence at work, which now is known to be incorrect.” The implications of this are extremely disturbing, but this crime is finally being seen for what it is, brings hope for the future & additional discoveries concerning Nubian heritage. The Nubians were a originally a diverse matrilineal African peoples, Arab mixture & patrilineal descent of family came much later in their history. B) The reason Nubia was & is, usually erased from history or mainstream history, was because it’s existence disproved ideas of African racial-inferiority. Nubia disproved the idea that Africans were not native to North Africa. It disproved that Egyptians were the only Nile-Valley-culture. It disproved that African peoples had no civilizations. It disproved that Africa had no civilizations outside of Egypt (a common narrative even today). It was one of many civilizations that disproved the idea that Blacks were lessor than Whites, Arabs & other groups (not that any of that required “proof”, human equality is always inherently obvious). 5. Why not talk about the institutional racism (including the destruction of ancient artifacts) & land displacement modern-Egypt has committed against Nubians to this day. #NubianLivesMatter The building of the Aswan dam & other “projects” have contributed to the drowning of Nubian land, destruction of archeological sites, & desertification. Activist such as Nubian rights & women’s rights activist Fatma Emam Sakory, have been pressuring Egypt to make Nubian culture/traditional religion, history & language apart of main stream Egyptian educational curriculum (as well as bringing awareness to other issues affecting Nubians of course).

The origins of Kush Cannabis are from landrace plants mainly in Afghanistan, Northern Pakistan and North-Western India with the name coming from the Hindu Kush mountain range.

This needs to be a gritty HBO drama. The meeting where the women negotiate could be a cool bottle episode with all the female characters. Someone call Hollywood, tell them we got some good Kush.

I heard that whenever the Bible mentions "Ethiopia" it's actually talking about Kush. Is that true?

Kush still rules today, and it's the same Kush. That's why the myth is gone.

1:48 Piankhy - the original horse girl.

I am from sudan and I love it ❤

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From what was said in the video, it gives the impression that Kush defeated Rome but in reality the kingdom was at serious risk, the Romans occupied half of its territory and seized its old capital. The Kushites in the end resisted well, Amanirenas called for an end to hostilities and peace was more convenient for both parties, there was trade and military support. The history of Kush is very interesting

Kush was the precursor to Kemet, not the other way around.

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I've heard the name Kush before, but I never thought too much about it, glad this video changed that!

Everything's great in this video topic/narration/editing...i could watch 1 hour of this easy... thanks

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I remember we learned about this kingdom in the 6th grade. Had to do a project near the end of the year about the different civilizations we learned about that year where we had to do a power point presentation or something with over 100 images. My partner and I were the unlucky winners to get the Kingdom of Kush. Where we found literally nothing but the eight page chapter of the kingdom that was in our history book and a lot of images of marijuana from Google. I'm still really salty about that to this day.

The kush ppl moved downwards the Nile river and formed a new kingdom called LADO, it was taken of the world map by British in recent years. It’s actually another great history from the lado kingdom in equatorial east Africa

I don't think I've heard about the Kush :(( and wow 1000+ years of ruling that's amazing why aren't we learning this

The writing system used by the kushites is what the Egyptian writing system is derived from

I am liking what TED Ed is doing to rediscover the history of a misunderstood part of the world.

Ted animations are just topnotch.

Extremely Nice and High Quality Animation and Topic by Ted-ed

please make a vid on Why you should read The Art of War by Sun Tzu

I am from Meroe, Sudan. The kingdom of Meroe broke down into three separate kingdoms which adopted Christianity. Nubatia, Almagarah and Alwa. I would like to see a video how the Egyptians statues lost there noses. The answer is ......

It was the handshake for me!! ❤️🏆

When Your Nickname is Kush and u clicked it to see if its my name: Thats what I'm Feeling Right Now

Why do any of these videos have dislikes they are so fun to watch. I already turned on notifications and get to see them right as they come out

The animation is so good! And the story is enhanced that way.

is the world coming to an end? Ted-Ed actually acknowledged African history after years of only telling Eurasian history.

What Netflix "Cleopatra" documentary should have been.

Can you guys please make a video about The Manden Charter? It's really interesting and fascinating but sadly there aren't many sites and fonts online about it

Really amazing. Who else wants to be there?

never been this early

Thanks! I love this ancient African kingdom! *_*

🇪🇹 Ya and then it was time for the Axumite rule of king Ezana and was one of the three most strong empires along with the Roman Empire and Persian Empire, love that. 🇪🇹

Egypt was a COLONY of Kush. This is backed up by the ancient Greek historians. Diodorus and Herodotus stated that the culture started in “Ethiopia”.

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Me encantó el vídeo, de lo más claro, entretenido y colorido 👍

Great video love the animation.

When i saw the title I was thinking of something completely different.

Gorgeous graphics.

I'm high and I thought this was about some long lost weed kingdom..

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*Summary (type: medium)* The civilization of Kush was more than a thousand years old at that time. Its early capital city at Kerma hadimpressive temples, palaces, and houses. The Kushite king Piankhy led his navy up the Nile to the gateway city of Khemenu. His successors extended control to the Nile Delta. The Kushites ruled Egypt for nearly 1,000 years. They were prosperous and innovative. They built temples to a new god called Apedemak. They also had a writing system that we haven’t deciphered fully. Some have argued that Kush’s history has been overlooked.

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Great as always, but it was kind of unclear where we were actually talking about. Even with uneven edges, I don't think it was ever detailed except for after when they merged with Egypt. Like where was their capitol? Maybe I missed it.

The Europeans and Americans didn't promote the idea that Egypt was part of the origin of western civilization - whereas Kush was not, because it's African. No, they believed Egypt was the cradle of civilization - all civilization, everywhere. Since Kush conquered Egypt, it became part of that civilization, but that would come much later. Being the cradle of civilization meant that Egyptians settled and became farmers instead of hunters-gatherers, built permanent dwellings and started organizing in cohesive groups, eventually developing surplus of foods, specialization in work &etc. They figured that much based on the evidence in front of them, at the time. Much later, after a lot of research and archeological findings all over the world, they realized they were wrong, and civilization began earlier still, in other places. I don't know why some people try to push racism into everything, no matter how much they need to twist facts around to try and make it fit.

Never thought Egypt as an Western civilization, but more as a Middle Eastern/ North African one.

What’s the greatest inaccuracy is seeing Kush and Egypt(Kemet) as originally separate . Egypt did not teach Kush they both originated from the same original civilization from the south .

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I like the kingdom of Kush… for some reason

a pride for every sudanese and nubian ! 🇸🇩

Why are they always separating Egypt from Africa? Instead of saying Egypt and Africa it should be Egypt and the rest of Africa because Egypt is in Africa

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Amazing video thanks for spreading more Knowledge and Awareness 🙏🏾

Loved it! Since the idea to the video itself.

Not only did their army fend off Rome, but their military leader deliberately cut of the head of the emperors statue and buried it under the temple threshold to be walked on forever?! That's gotta be one of the ancient worlds biggest acts of "this is exactly what I think of you"

I love the animation in this video..

This is awesome to know! I just want to study more now. Thanks for the video!

"American and European scholars promoted the idea that Egypt was part of the origin of Western civilization, while Kush, as an African culture, was excluded." Egypt is in Africa too, though... What's the point of creating tension when it's not necessary?

Very cool! I’m playing Total War Rome 2 right now and very interested in the Kush and Saba factions so I came here!

TED-Ed: What happened to the lost Kingdom of Kush? Voice in my head: Maybe they smoked it.

The animation is just amazing.

So interesting

Kush was never lost, only ignored by mainstream historians in favor of its more famous cousin, Egypt!

Short answer: axum

Ted Ed - What happened to the lost kingdom of Kush? Me - that’s exactly why I am here , great video like always!!

0:32 again with the bloody lies. Kush had pharaonic culture before Egypt. As a matter of fact, Nubia is the origin of Egyptian culture. Stop the nonsense

Wow, once ruled Egypt and was never heard from again? That's a paddling.

Great job. Would be great one video about the Sea People

Learning this makes me love my job even more(I own a legal cannabis farm, we definitely have some kush)

I would love to see a ted-ed video on artificial intelligence. Is an AI more like a robot or is it more like an algoritm?

It’s obvious how the Light skinned Egyptians are always highlighted. Neglecting the history of the Kush dynasty and their influence. They were mixed people, just like now.

I just don't like how people who are responsible for a huge platforms and scholarly information neglect the fact that Kush And Kemet are practically the same. It's known fact through archeological finding that Kush actually is the Origin of Kemet(Egypt).. Kemet is just as African as Kush. The only separation is Kemet was constantly invaded by Afro-Asiatics, so eventually there was a small mixing..

Nice video.

Egypt is also in Africa and holds African culture.* If you’re interested in Kush after watching this video please do your own research 😅