{"id":16548,"date":"2026-03-23T17:57:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/the-great-king-was-dismissed-as-a-myth-like-king-arthur-which-archaeologists-have-proven-to-be-real-world-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T17:57:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:57:38","slug":"the-great-king-was-dismissed-as-a-myth-like-king-arthur-which-archaeologists-have-proven-to-be-real-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/the-great-king-was-dismissed-as-a-myth-like-king-arthur-which-archaeologists-have-proven-to-be-real-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The great king was dismissed as a myth like King Arthur which archaeologists have proven to be real. world | news"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Archaeologists have discovered a royal order bearing the signature of a once-great African king \u2013 retrieved directly from a centuries-old garbage dump along the banks of the Nile River.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The remarkable discovery uncovered by a Polish research team from the University of Warsaw in Old Dongola in northern Sudan bears the name of King Qashqash \u2013 a sovereign previously thought to be legendary, the equivalent of Britain’s King Arthur.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Experts date the document to the late 16th or early 17th century, placing it as the oldest tangible archaeological evidence of actual rule of Qashqash.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rather than describing military victories, the Arabic decree, written by a royal scribe named Hamad, instructs a man named Khidr to exchange textiles for livestock and turn everything over to its rightful owner, and ends with a sharp instruction: “Do not hesitate!”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Scholars suggest that the instruction provides information about the actual royal authority and administration of the less recorded period, Jerusalem Post reports.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The study describes it as “a rare glimpse of Sudanese kingship during one of the least-documented periods in Sudanese history” and, paraphrasing a well-known expression, attempts to demonstrate “the kingship of Nubia at work, not in war, but in everyday management.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The page emerged within the House of the Mekk (‘House of the King’), a historic complex near the east bank of the Nile, hidden under layers of medieval debris.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Old Dongola was the capital of the Christian Kingdom of Makuria before transforming into a thriving trade centre, linking the Ottoman Empire to the north and the Funj Sultanate to the south.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Along with the page, archaeologists discovered several other document fragments, fragments of silk, linen and blue cloth, a gold ring, a dagger handle made of ivory or rhinoceros horn and gun shells, and a gunpowder flask.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The study notes that during that period, firearms were primarily status symbols rather than instruments of war, with their owners identified as members of an influential elite.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The discovery, published in the journal Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, elevates Qashqash from an obscure figure known primarily from later biographies of holy men to a documented ruler who authorized royal affairs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Archaeologists have discovered a royal order bearing the signature of a once-great African king \u2013 retrieved directly from a centuries-old garbage dump along the banks of the Nile River. The remarkable discovery uncovered by a Polish research team from the University of Warsaw in Old Dongola in northern Sudan bears the name of King Qashqash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[4841,6593,8013,246,873,3192,615,7441,989,166],"class_list":{"0":"post-16548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-news","8":"tag-archaeologists","9":"tag-arthur","10":"tag-dismissed","11":"tag-great","12":"tag-king","13":"tag-myth","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-proven","16":"tag-real","17":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16550,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16548\/revisions\/16550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}