Again, the heretical Egyptian king Amenophis IV.
The country was visited by few Europeans before the time of the Egyptian conquest.
Nevertheless, we will not forget that some Egyptian wheat was handed down to us by a mummy.
Educated at Leipzig and Berlin, he became extraordinary professor in 1883 and ordinary professor in 1892 of Egyptology in the university of Berlin, and in 1885 he was appointed director of the Egyptian department of the royal museum.
Sennar, lying between Nubia and Abyssinia, was in ancient times under Egyptian or Ethiopian influence and its inhabitants appear to have embraced Christianity at an early period.