Will Smith Rules Egypt

Actually, Pharaoh Taharq is the FOURTH Nubian Pharaoh and you were correct in saying not the LAST. There were FIVE Nubian Pharaohs.

The ancient nubian's were a very dark skinned people's who ruled southern Egypt and Northern and Central Sudan , they were a nilo - Sahran people that came from the south and are not related to any Ethiopian people... i think your getting confused with the fact that in ancient time's Ethiopia was the name for all of Africa and was not a refrence to the modern day state of Ethiopia...so when they say the Nubians were the Kings of Ethiopia there not talking about modern day Ethiopia but africa in general... any ways Will smith look's nothing like a ancient Nubian's they were very dark and distictive feature's... he can pass as a modern day nubian since they have mixed with arabs over the past hundred years... Sudan means land " of the black's " .

I'm so tired of the white Ancient Kemet thing. With all the scientific evidence out there, the actually artistic auto-depictions of the Kemet people themselves, their braided, dreaded, kinky haired wigs, the vast amount of cultural similarities between the people of Kemet and the rest of brown-black Africa including diasporic blacks, the pyramids in Sudan, the brown-dark skinned modern majority of Egypt today you'd think that people would just accept it and get on with life. I always wonder how any one could ignore that much evidence, but suffice it to say, many many MANY do. I have even seen white artists paint white Nubians as well, I guess there is no limit.

The amount of Roman to Renaissance style paintings, sculptures & modern remakes with European features, the silky-straight haired Egyptian wigs that pop up on Halloween, really lets us know how much of an identity issue this is for some people. Can you not admire Kemet if you cannot paint it white?
The people of Ancient Kemet have little to NO culture similarities to either Europeans or Arabs, they are very very African.

The first Hebrews (Jews) were also Black, see modern Ethiopian Jews, wow history really escapes some. And here is another shocker the first Human beings on earth were also black. The farther back in history you go the more African it gets. because black Africans migrated out of Africa before other peoples existed.

Now chill out none of this means that anyone is better than anyone else we are all actually pretty much the same. Its just fact and no one is trying to steal anything by presenting the scientific and historical truth.

Can't wait to see if Will does history justice.

if the pyramid builders were NOT black, then why is the face of the sphinx a negro.


sources:
1. New York Times [July 18, 1992 issue]
2. Frank Domingo. Most celebrated forensic scientists in the USA
3. Sheldon Peck, MD and Harvard professor of Orthodontics

Rescue Nubia Committee, USA chapter invites you to the Nubian Week from June 11 – 17, 2008 to commemorate the first anniversary of the martyrs of Kajbar and the Nubian resistance to dams in Kajbar and Dal and to preserve their culture, heritage and rescue the Nubian monuments and historical sites from destruction by dams and policies of Arabization, cultural cleansing and marginalization.
• June 11, 2008: 2.00 pm – 4-00 pm at the Heritage Foundation: lecture by
Professor Henry T. Aubin
Author of: The Rescue of Jerusalem: The Alliance Between Hebrews and Africans in 701 BC.
The lecture will be followed by questions and answers and then concluded by Nubian songs for Kajbar martyrs from Hadi Osman

Well, while I'll say that it's about darn time a movie about the Ethiopian/Assyrian conflict is in the works, I can't say that Will Smith would be the absolute best choice for this film. I've always liked Smith's movies, but I say they should use someone like Djimon Hounsu ( is that spelled right?!) from "Amistad", or some other darker black man, such as maybe Morris Chestnut. Sure, the star power won't be there like if Smith were to do it, but this movie is about NUBIANS, so I feel that a more "NUBIAN" colored man would be best. This is just my opinion though, and who knows, Smith is a great actor so maybe he CAN pull it off!

Great article but somewhat inaccurate. The truth is black people did build the pyramids. In addition, they built the pyramids without any slave labour. There is no word for slave in Anciant Egyptian hieroglyphics. The word that the Greeks used for the word slave is translated to stranger in "Egptian." Up until roughly 600BCE, Egypt or should I say Kemet was an African Kingdom and when I say African I mean BLACK. Kemet means "The land of the Blacks." The skin color of tens of pharoahs are recorded on the walls of countless temples and their features have been immortalized in the statues were made. Look at the statues: the thick lips, thick nose, checkbones...it is unmistakable. Those are AFRICAN features. The Sphinx is a giant statue of an African man with the body of a lion.

The only event that has been recorded in history that is similar to what happened in the Bible with Moses and all(btw, there is no historical account of the existence of a man named Moses) is the Hicksos explultion.

It's probably a good thing to do and about time we start to have movies about Assyrians for years we are struggling to show or educate the world about the Assyrians i mean the native people of Iraq..and the contribution that we made to the entire universe in all areas of life.

We as Assyrians should support this movie and yes the movie should go ahead .

Well done to the creator of the story and Will Smith is an excellent choice.

Proud to be an Assyrian.

will smith one of the greatest actors, my favorites too.
but for him playing this role, the movie would be a little bit comedy.
"I am legend" is a great movie, seen it 5 times, and i'll see it more.
but a this kind role, esp. a pharaoh...King.... won't be convincing!
i'll probably laugh.. it's like eddie murphy playing a pharaoh king.
no offense, but u shouldn't take this role.