Taharqa

Taharqa, also spelled Taharka or Taharqo (; ; Manetho's , ; Strabo's , , Septuagint's , ), was a pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt and qore (king) of the Kingdom of Kush (present day Sudan) from 690 to 664 BC. He was one of the Black Pharaohs – also called Nubian or Kushite Pharaohs – who ruled over Egypt for nearly a century.