Khartoum - Granite statues and stelae of pharaohs who ruled from northern Sudan more than 2 600 years ago - including the last "black pharaohs" - have been found by a team of French and Swiss ...

The archaeologists from the University of Geneva discovered a pit full of large monuments and finely carved statues of the Nubian kings known as the black pharaohs. The Swiss head of the ...

The Swiss archaeologist and head of the expedition, Charles Bonnet, described the statues and monuments ... and Tanoutamon – who were the last black pharaohs – and the sovereigns Senkamanisken ...

"The gold offerings were still sitting there - these small glass-type statues had been leafed ... royals who are sometimes referred to as "black pharaohs". The Kush kingdom lasted for many ...