The King of Ethiopia
Now the king heard it said about King Tir·ha′kah of E·thi·o′pi·a: “Here he has come out to fight against you.”
2 Kings 19:9
In 688 B.C., when King Tirhakah of Kush became Pharaoh of Egypt, he began to conspire with Phoenicia to obtain greater quantities of iron, needed to match the weaponry of the invading Assyrians.
He sent ships, commanded by his Ethiopian officers, and navigated by his Phoenician allies, to the northeast coast of the Gulf of Guinea, an area known for iron production, having both very rich ores, and an abundance of wood for making charcoal to smelt the iron.
On their return voyage, one or several of these ships were swept into the south equatorial current, as was the Portuguese explorer Cabral in 1500 A.D. Just as Cabral later did, they arrived in Brazil. Traveling northwest with the currents, they arrived on the southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
With them they brought, besides their main cargo of iron, cotton and bronze. These white robed and bearded seafarers also brought the Egyptian motif of the feathered serpent, leading to the incarnation of the Mexican god Quetzalcoatl.
With their iron tools they sculpted the colossal heads of the Olmecs, exquisite in their detail of Sudanese features and cast bronze helmets, carved from basalt, one of the hardest stones, 8 on a scale of 10.
They also brought the calendar, pyramid engineering, writing, and agricultural science.
2 Kings 19:9
In 688 B.C., when King Tirhakah of Kush became Pharaoh of Egypt, he began to conspire with Phoenicia to obtain greater quantities of iron, needed to match the weaponry of the invading Assyrians.
He sent ships, commanded by his Ethiopian officers, and navigated by his Phoenician allies, to the northeast coast of the Gulf of Guinea, an area known for iron production, having both very rich ores, and an abundance of wood for making charcoal to smelt the iron.
On their return voyage, one or several of these ships were swept into the south equatorial current, as was the Portuguese explorer Cabral in 1500 A.D. Just as Cabral later did, they arrived in Brazil. Traveling northwest with the currents, they arrived on the southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
With them they brought, besides their main cargo of iron, cotton and bronze. These white robed and bearded seafarers also brought the Egyptian motif of the feathered serpent, leading to the incarnation of the Mexican god Quetzalcoatl.
With their iron tools they sculpted the colossal heads of the Olmecs, exquisite in their detail of Sudanese features and cast bronze helmets, carved from basalt, one of the hardest stones, 8 on a scale of 10.
They also brought the calendar, pyramid engineering, writing, and agricultural science.
Great Post brother Steve.