Why isn't the ancient history of Sudan more spoke about?

[Khaem]

Sudan had the empire of Kush, stteching from the norther border of modern Ethiopia, to the Levant at one point and all of Egypt. Created in 700bc.
I thought about it and realised the only thing Europe had was small city states in Greece, in the edge of the eastern world. Europe had nothing. Sudan was on par or even surpassed the greatest civilizations of the time. And yet we speak more about the tiny city states of Greece with a population of 20,000 where 70% were slaves? Compared to a massive ancient empire?

 

[Basra]

 

[Khaem]

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Ain't no way

 

[Lahaine]

Sudanis themselves don't really talk about it they have been assimilated. I've only seen south sudanis claiming they ruled "Kush" on TikTok.

 

[Khaem]

Sudanis themselves don't really talk about it they have been assimilated. I've only seen south sudanis claiming they ruled "Kush" on TikTok.

Honestly sad

 

[Emir of Zayla]

Sudan and the Horn isn’t usually talked about when it comes to ancient history. Land of Punt & Ancient Egyptian trade was among the first examples of international trade and even brought along many folktales (see this thread: https://www.somalispot.com/threads/...ilor-an-ancient-egyptian-epic-of-punt.155192/) and culture that dissipated into the Mediterranean like the incense obsession of the Romans came from the Egyptians who got it from the Puntites.

Nubians/Kush are the same also. They conquered Egypt and the Levant and regularly fought against Mesopotamian powerhouses like the Assyrians and impacted culture in the Middle East like how they build their settlements are found in the Horn and Oman if I remember correctly.

 

[Khaem]

Sudan and the Horn isn’t usually talked about when it comes to ancient history. Land of Punt & Ancient Egyptian trade was among the first examples of international trade and even brought along many folktales (see this thread: https://www.somalispot.com/threads/...ilor-an-ancient-egyptian-epic-of-punt.155192/) and culture that dissipated into the Mediterranean like the incense obsession of the Romans came from the Egyptians who got it from the Puntites.

Nubians/Kush are the same also. They conquered Egypt and the Levant and regularly fought against Mesopotamian powerhouses like the Assyrians and impacted culture in the Middle East.

We need more scholars to write and compile the histories. Walahi it's embarrassing how much history isn't being preserved. It's like we don't care. Then you got little hooyo mataalo yutes on sspot and reddit every week making posts about how Somalis didn't do this or that.

Saw a reddit post on r/somalia from a hooyo mataalo kid asking why somalis were illiterate. One Google search is all it takes to know Somalis wrote with adapted Arabic script for nearly a thousand years.
One Google search it's all it takes. But idiots think so lowly of Soomalida they think we were in mud huts like half of Africa in the iron age. As of Somali empires weren't fighting and winning against Portuguese with guns and canons in the 1500s. Shocking behaviour.

 

[Three Moons]

The Greeks called themselves Hellenes for thousands of years, then became Christians and started calling themselves Romans and henceforth rejected their ancient heritage. Not until the 19th century wave of Nationalism hitting Europe did that heritage come back with a vengeance and they became once again the Hellenic Republic breaking off from the Ottoman Empire.

My point being; there is a significant disconnect in terms of language, religion and world view between the modern Sudanese and the ancient Sudanese, and the former hasn’t been able to cash in on their heritage the way the Egyptians have through tourism, which would have built a stronger link between the modern and ancient peoples.

Hollywood also has no interest in making an epic movie like The Mummy set in Sudan unless the leading characters are obviously White, which is difficult with a civilisation whose African origins is not as ambiguous as the Ancient Egypt race controversy.

 

[Hotchick12]

Because Ethiopia stole their name

 

[Somali_patriotic]

I was wondering if the ancestors of modern somalis could get credit for some of ancient sudan's history

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I mean like our ancestors didn't populate our modem region until recently (in like 600bce maybe?) And were living somewhere up there between eritrea and sudan, we really got rigged lol.

 

[Khaem]

I was wondering if the ancestors of modern somalis could get credit for some of ancient sudan's history View attachment 301626?

I mean like our ancestors didn't populate our modem region until recently (in like 600bce maybe?) And were living somewhere up there between eritrea and sudan, we really got rigged lol.

Somalis and Oromo descend from the same lowland tribe 3,000 years ago. So we've been here for a long time. Sudan is ethnically Cushitic like us. That's about as deep as the relations go.