Black Pharaohs from Nubia

This article, http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/02/black-pharaohs/robert-draper-text., talks about Black pharaohs of Egypt. Now the concept of race, the way we mean it, was not important in ancient times. In fact, the concept "race" is basically an invention by Europeans who exploited others. Many Afrocentric scholars believe that many more pharaohs were Black than the ones mentioned in this article.

"Piye was the first of the so-called black pharaohs—a series of Nubian kings who ruled over all of Egypt for three-quarters of a century as that country’s 25th dynasty. Through inscriptions carved on stelae by both the Nubians and their enemies, it is possible to map out these rulers’ vast footprint on the continent. The black pharaohs reunified a tattered Egypt and filled its landscape with glorious monuments, creating an empire that stretched from the southern border at present-day Khartoum all the way north to the Mediterranean Sea. They stood up to the bloodthirsty Assyrians, perhaps saving Jerusalem in the process.
Until recently, theirs was a chapter of history that largely went untold. Only in the past four decades have archaeologists resurrected their story—and come to recognize that the black pharaohs didn’t appear out of nowhere. They sprang from a robust African civilization that had flourished on the southern banks of the Nile for 2,500 years, going back at least as far as the first Egyptian dynasty."