Museum Africa is not about revisionist African history written by biased Afrocentric scholars. Not at all. Rather, it is a journey back into the glory years of the African continent's past, when the first civilizations were created and thrived. The map to the past was drawn by the ancient Africans themselves, who left countless records about who they were and what they accomplished.

Our journey will take us to places like Kemet (now known as Egypt), Kush (Sudan) and Punt (Somalia), which the ancients called "God's country. In Nubia (southern Egypt) we'll visit temples the ancients erected to honor their gods, such as Apedemak, a lion-headed warrior god, pictured below.

   

Goddesses, Gods and ancient African royalty: From left (clockwise): Goddess Neith; "King" Hatshepsut; Queen Tiye; Pharaoh Shebitku; Goddess Isis suckling her son Horus; a royal lady (Mutbenret (?) from the court of Pharaoh Akhenaten; Kushite Pharaoh Taharqa; Queen Tiye; and Pharaoh Amenhotep III.

We will meet, along the way, ancient movers and shakers like Tutmosis I and Tutmosis II, Hatshepsut, Ahmose Nefertari, Queen Tiye, her husband, Amenhotep III, who built many of the monuments that we today marvel over. Their son, Akhenaten, who changed forever how people honor God. All of them powerful. All of them Africans.

So let's not delay a moment longer. Join us on this fabulous journey — first, to West Africa, then East Africa, North Africa and, finally, South Africa,