Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan - all built long-lived kingdoms with their bare hands. Stone temples, massive pyramids, and palaces galore...but as the centuries unfolded, spiritual idolatry became an integral part of their cultures. Then, during the eighth century BC, God's servant Isaiah uttered a prophecy: the Hamites' idolatry would soon lead to chastisement. Tirhakah - king of Cush and Mizraim, inherited the sibling Hamitic kingdoms from his fathers. When it was his turn to face Assyria, the ancient world's greatest military force, Tirhakah found himself in danger of losing it all. His...

Ancient Hebrew Slavery1870-1440 BCAfrican Slave Trade1440-1870 ADWhat if the European slave traders descended from Israel's lost tribes? Does that mean the African slave trade was a case of sowing and reaping? Can seeds sown in antiquity come to harvest in the modern era?

A scepter from ancient Egypt falls into modern day hands - will it lead to the restoration of long forgotten traditions? Ankh-Tawy, 1763 BC. It is a simple thing really. A wooden stick with ox hairs glued on its end, but the scepter symbolizes royal authority in ancient Egypt. Sobekkara Sobekneferu, Egypt's second female ruler wielded her scepter as an amulet, protection from the noblemen in her court. After all, they slew one monarch, they may slay another. San Francisco, 2007. When Cher Madison, an aspiring archaeologist, purchases a scepter from a novelty shop, she stumbles upon a genuine...

The Horus Scrolls - Marian Bayan, Professor of History at Cambridge University in England, is hired to translate an ancient Egyptiam scroll. The parchment lists a royal dynasty, that never was, and a murder. The Horus Women - As the new monarch in Kham (Egypt), Sobekkara Sobekneferu has two fears. One is that the nobles in her court would murder her, because after all, she is a woman on a man's throne. Her second fear is the rise of the warriors, a class with the training and means to topple the throne if they wished to. Sobekkara enlists the aid of a sau, an amulet maker, who curses the...

The clergy of Amon-Ra have long manipulated affairs in ancient Kham (Egypt). In 750 BC, they again position themselves to influence. Katep, Second Prophet at Karnak, writes a simple letter to Cush's monarch. The carefully penned correspondence is confiscated before it reaches Cush, and sets Osorkon III, the king of Kham, on his guard. Osorkon III sets up a new line of action against Cushites in Kham. A policy that tempts King Kashta of Cush to reciprocate, but it is Osorkon's next move that goes too far, and may cost the ruler his crown and his kingdom.