Based on an analysis of the legendary information about him, Sesostris can most likely be identified as the historical Shebitku. He was an Ethiopian king of Egypt who ruled toward the end of the ...

This early seventh-century B.C. head is believed to depict the Kushite pharaoh Shebitku, the third king of the 25th dynasty. It is now in the Nubian Museum in Aswan, Egypt. Album ...

Donation stele of Pharaoh Shebitku, the likely historical origin of legendary Egyptian King Sesostris. Credit: Public domain. The ancient Greeks did not just have legends about their own nation. They ...

Subsequently black kings of the dynasty, including Shabaka, Shebitku, Taharqa and Tanutamun, ruled Egypt until the birth of Christ. Originally, Mizraim (Egypt) is the birthplace of civilization. When ...

View of the relief of Sargon II of Assyria at the rock cliff of Tang-i Var as seen from below. The inscription covering the depiction of king Sargon mentions his interaction with Shebitku, king of ...

Piye and his successors Shabaka, Shebitku, and later Taharqa were dubbed the Black Pharaohs who all ruled Egypt in succession. Piye and his successors literally paved the way for Taharqa.

Shebitku 698 – 690 BCE Pharaoh Shebitku was the fifth king of the Twenty Fifth Dynasty of Egypt. The nephew and successor of Shabaka, son of Piye’.

Shebitku's throne name was Djedkare, meaning 'Enduring is the Soul'. There is no sign of the mummy or the rest of the coffin and no information about how it came to reside in England.

The lives of men like Fredrick Douglass, George Washington Carver, Marcus Garvey, Isaiah Morter and others, no less important, are well-known and are sometimes or oftentimes thought to be exceptions ...