Along the Nile River, the ancient civilization of Kush successfully challenged two of the most dominant empires in history: the Egyptians and the Romans. So, what happened to this powerful kingdom? | TED-Ed

'Ancient Egypt was a Negro civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt. The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of their civilization is to be counted among the assets of the Black world. Instead of presenting itself to history as an insolvent debtor, that Black world is the very initiator of the "western" civilization flaunted before our eyes today' - Dr C