As showing a common civilization, in fact, perhaps a common origin, the
doings of the Black Kings were chronicled after the same fashion as
those of the Egyptian kings.
The writing of the people of the Great Black Empire, is like that of the
Egyptians, and the gods they worshiped were closely related to the gods
of Egypt.
Inscriptions on these monuments that have been deciphered, tell us that
Piankhi, the black king, conquered Egypt 750 B. C., and that he
worshiped without question in Egyptian temples, and the carvings in the
excavated ruins, which show men and women unmistakably Negro, give
evidence of the similarity of religion.
We have always supposed, as told by the scientists, that civilization
went up the Nile, whereas, it is now proven that it came down the Nile,
that is, from Ethiopia to Egypt, instead of the other way.
When Cambyses, king of Persia, conquered Egypt six hundred years before
the Christian era, he ventured to arrange an expedition against the
black empire to the south, stories of the greatness of which he had been
told. He sent to the Black King gifts of gold, palm wine and incense,
and asked to be informed whether or not it was true that on a certain
spot called the “Table of the Sun,” the magistrates, every night, put
provisions of cooked meats so that every one who was hungry might come
in the morning and help himself.
The history proceeds to tell us, that the black king, Nastasenen,
received the envoys of Cambyses peacefully but without enthusiasm. He
showed them the “Table of the Sun” mentioned by Cambyses, and took them
to the prisons where the prisoners wore fetters of gold, so that the
Persians might be properly impressed.
Cambyses was very much impressed by the fact that gold was so common
that it was used in making the shackles of prisoners, and he made war
upon the black empire to get that gold, but miserably failed.