Sudan: Portrait of Prince Khaliut - the Greatest of Moral Texts in the Old World

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It was not carving on stone that immortalized the script of the Kushite Prince khaliut and kept it intact for thousands of years but the noble values the portrait contained that expressed man's good nature as enjoined by the divine books that came after it.

The script, that takes the form of an obelisk, was inscribed around the end of the 7th century BC. The script was unearthed in 1920 from the entrance of the Amun temple in the Jebel Barkal (al-Barkal mount), South of the town Dongola, Capital of today's Northern State of Sudan, says Prof. Abdelrahman Ali, the Director of the Sudanese National Corporation For Antiquities and Museums.

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