There few years, I have brought this same paint off my home to show a delivery man who came to my house to pick up some other paintings.
The man said he was from Sudan, the region where archaeologists found the remains of the Kushite culture. I asked if he had ever heard him talk about Piye (or Piankhe, as it is also known), or Kushite civilization that was once powerful enough to defeat even the Nile Valley to the north. The man smiled and shrugged. He had never heard of it.
I recalled the stories of modern Khmers living in the ruins of Angkor Empire, not knowing that their ancestors had built.
It is easy to forget our own cultural heritage. Sometimes a period of voluntary cultural obliteration by a group in power, from a failure of education, or simply distraction of other things in the area of the current view.
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GJ after all this paint.
The Italian exhibition is sponsored by Lucca Comics and Games.
