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Did you know that Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt? It does! And you have probably never heard of them because they are impossibly hard to get to and located in a country which has for years been embargoed and closed to the outside world. How did I manage to spend almost 18 months in Sudan? Thanks to work. I got the chance to spend time there on two different ocassions on different years and, although I did not spend most weekends in Khartoum I did get the chance to see the temples and pyramids that can be found in the dessert, hidden and remote. The pyramids in Meroe are not easy to get to independently. At that time, and I don't expect things to have improved much since, you needed first to get a driver with a 4x4, a GPS, lots of road permits to get through the road controls outside of Khartoum and also pre-purchase tickets to visit each of the temples/pyramids. All of the permits and tickets need to be obtained from the central government in Khartoum. Tickets from the Antiquities Service. Shadows on the dunes The GPS system is because the pyramids arein the middle of the dessert and can only be reached by driving across the dunes. So not only do you need the GPS system you also need to know how to use it so that you don't get lost in the vastness of the dessert. Bottom line: you need to be a bit of an Indiana Jones to get there. The only alternative is to go with an organized tour or to book a stay with the Italian Tourism Company which operates the Meroe Permanent Tented camp and can organize the transportation and an itinerary to include Meroe and Karima, the other jewel of Sudanese Nubian history. The camp is only open during the dry months of October to April, outside of these times it is not advisable to go becuse the haboob (sand storms) and the torrential rains hat amde living by the Nile so important to Egyptian civilization make it very dangerous. It is the only accommodation of comfortable standards in the area. If you can't afford that one then the only option is to stay in Shendi at a local house. Meroe is an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi approximately 200 km north-east of the capital Khartoum. It was of relevant importance in the Nubian kingdom between the 280 BC and the 300 AC when the Nubians controlled much of Egypt and almost all of today's Sudan down to Khartoum. There are close to two hundred pyramids in a relatively small area, the ancient burial site of the Merotic Kingdom (sometimes known as the Kingdom of Kush). The Pyramids are smaller than their Egyptian cousins but equally impressive due to their number. The first of the Meroe Pyramids were built about 800 years after the last Egyptian pyramids were completed. The Meroe pyramids were constructed from large blocks of sandstone. They're angled more steeply than the Egyptian pyramids and the Egyptian influce is very clear and their artisans were used to build Meroe's pyramids. The pyramid's steep angles reflect the angle of the sun's rays on Earth. The tops of the pyramids were blown off by an Italian explorer looking for hiddden treasures in the 1800s. Meroe complex Little is being done today to conserve or preserve the pyramids and they are mostly left to the elements. If you visit, have a look at the visitor's book the keeper has and you will see the date of the last visitor to be probably quite long ago. There are no fences preventing entrance and no facilities of any kind, no toilet no shop and no souvenir trap. Just the pyramids and the orange dunes all to yourself, you are not going to see any other tourist even if you spend the whole day there. Meroe is a sudden illusion, a mirage in the middle of the dessert. When the pyramids appear from nowhere you will be forgibben for thinking the desert is playing a trick on you. The keeper's son in traditional Sudanese clothes We jumped off the car into the dunes and the keeper and his son come out to meet us and collect the visitor's permit. They will open the visitor's book, in Arabic, and write your details down. If you speak Arabic you may be allowed to pay a smalll fee to the keeper although officially you are not supposed to. Converse with them to find out more, they are super friendly and photogenic and a living example of Nubian features. If you are lucky enough to be staying around the area do not miss the sunrise or sunset, the sun and shades of orange of the dessert in that part of the worls are simply unimaginable in all hues from dark brown to light orange, the shadows of the pyramids creating beautiful postcards of what it might have been. Meroe is truly enchanting. Between two pyramids As you can see from the photos here is virtually no shade and the sun can be very strong so bring a hat and be prepared to walk on extremely hot sand with closed shoes. Do not wear flip flops or you'll burn your feet. Have you been to Meroe?
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Was Michelle Obama the first black First Lady? You might be surprised at these 15 historical figures you probably didn’t know were black. 1. Betty Boop They might have drawn Betty Boop white, but her history is black. The character was actually stolen from Cotton Club singer Esther Jones — known by her stage name “Baby Esther” and the baby talk she used when she sang songs like “I Wanna Be Loved By You (Boop- Boop-BeDoo). Her act later “inspired” cartoonist Max Fleischer to create the character Betty Boop and Esther tried to win the rights back to her character until the day she died. 2. J. Edgar Hoover Hitler’s Jewish ancestry isn’t the strangest twist in racial history. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover — the man who plagued the black liberation movement from Marcus Garvey to the Black Panther Party — was known by his peers as a passing black man. His childhood neighbor writer Gore Vidal famously quoted, “It was always said in my family and around the city that Hoover was mulatto. And that he came from a family that passed.” And apparently that was a closely-guarded secret. Millie McGhee, author of Secrets Uncovered: J. Edgar Hoover Passing For White, said, “In the late 1950’s, I was a young girl growing up in rural McComb, Mississippi. A story had been passed down through several generations that the land we lived on was owned by the Hoover family. My grandfather told me that this powerful man, Edgar, was his second cousin, and was passing for white. If we talked about this, he was so powerful he could have us all killed. I grew up terrified about all this.” 3. The Medici Family It’s hard to get through any school lesson about the Italian Renaissance without talking about the Medici family. What history doesn’t like to talk about is that the financial ruler of the western world — Alessandro de Medici, Duke of Penne and Duke of Florence and commonly called “Il Moro” (Italian for Moor — a term commonly used to describe anyone with dark skin) — was born to an African-Italian mother (a servant) and a white father (who would later become Pope Clement VII). 4. Jacqueline Onassis Was Michelle Obama our first African-American First Lady? Or was it Jackie O? Jacqueline Onassis is a member of the van Salee’s family, famous for their “mulatto” heritage. Jackie O’s ancestor John van Salee De Grasse was the first black American formally educated as a doctor; her socialite father was nicknamed “Black Jack” Bouvier because of his dark complexion. More fun van Salee facts?: Both actor Humphrey Bogart and journalist Anderson Cooper are descendants of that famous family. 5. Anatole Broyard American writer Anatole Broyard passed as white his entire life. It wasn’t until his daughter, Bliss, published One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life — A Story of Race and Family Secrets was the truth revealed: The famous New York Times book reviewer was born to light-skinned black parents in New Orleans and started passing once he grew up and moved out of his predominantly black Brooklyn neighborhood. 6. Queen Charlotte This 18th century painter got into hot water when he painted Queen Charlotte’s features a little too realistically. The painting stirred up long-standing rumors about King George III’s wife’s African heritage. And those rumors turned out to be true. Queen Charlotte was the member of a Portuguese royal family begun by Alfonso III and his lover Madragana “a moor“. Because this makes Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and Prince William technically mixed race, many historians have tried to cast doubt on the nature of Queen Charlotte’s heritage. But her personal physician has noted her “true mulatto face” and the public report released before Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953 acknowledges the monarchy’s African heritage. 7. Alexander Pushkin The man considered the father of Russian literature was he great-grandson of an Ethiopian prince named Ibrahim Gannibal. Among Pushkin’s more famous unpublished works (left after his death in a duel) is an unfinished novel about his Ethiopian great-grandfather. 8. Beethoven The famous classical composer’s mother was a moor. It’s a fact that became popular again after this cast of his African facial features contradicted the “idealized” paintings of the man history likes to re-imagine. 9. King Tut The Boy Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt is often depicted as fair skinned. But these images recovered from his tomb (in addition to several other artifacts) have identified him as a black African. 10. Santa Claus Or at least Saint Nicholas (270 – 343 AD), the saint that the legend is based on. Old Saint Nick was born in what’s now considered Turkey (at the time a metropolis for people of African descent). 11. Hannibal Hannibal of Carthage — one of the greatest military strategists in history is often depicted with much… narrower features. But these coins depicting Hannibal and his famous army of elephants leave little doubt in the minds of many historians of his African ancestry. 12. Saint Augustine No course covering Philosophy 101 is complete without referencing Christian theologian Saint Augustine. What’s less commonly covered is his African origins and birth place of (modern-day) Souk Ahras, Algeria. 13. Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas was the son of the General Dumas born in 1762 to a white father and an enslaved mother. General Dumas was such a good general that he made his rival — Napoleon Bonaparte — nervous. Thanks to Napoleon’s machinations, the General ended up imprisoned in a dungeon for years — the story that inspired Alexandre to write The Count of Monte Cristo about his father. 14. Alexander Hamilton For black history buffs, it’s really all about the Hamiltons. Alexander Hamilton isn’t just the man on the $10 bill, he was the United States’ first Secretary of the Treasury. His mother, Rachel Fawcett Lavain, was said to be of “mixed blood” and his father was the son of a Scottish Duke. Alexander’s older brother was dark-skinned and treated as black. But Alexander was light enough to pass and went on to establish the first national bank in the American colonies, founded the U.S. mint and wrote most of the Federalist Papers. 15. Clark Gable The original “tall, dark and handsome” actor didn’t hide his Black and Native American heritage. 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