“Philae Temple,” thought to be of Nubian origin and meaning the “the temple on the island of the past,” like Abu Simbel, garnered international attention and adoration in the 1960s when a campaign was launched by UNESCO to save it from rising waters behind the newly-built Aswan High Dam. Block by block, the temple was
A recent Netflix documentary called Queen Cleopatra has drawn criticism for "blackwashing" one of Egypt’s most famous historical figures, Cleopatra. The trailer for the documentary makes a clear reference to Cleopatra’s skin colour, where one commentator explicitly says, “I don’t care what they tell you in school. Cleopatra was black.” Cleopatra VII Philopathor was the