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Because the Egyptians as a RACE of people ORIGINATED as and are a NEGROID African people... They do not descend from Caucasian.
NO THEY WEREN'T.
? and African are not synonymous like your trying to make them.
? means Black and was originally used by the Spanish & Portuguese to refer to the people in West Africa that they encountered. It was then used to refer to Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas during the Middle Passage which is now known as the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
The North East African peoples you posted pictures of were NEVER referred to as "Negros". They are Dark-Skinned Caucasoids/Caucasians. -
stillmatic_01 wrote: »NO THEY WEREN'T.
? and African are not synonymous like your trying to make them.
? means Black and was originally used by the Spanish & Portuguese to refer to the people in West Africa that they encountered. It was then used to refer to Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas during the Middle Passage which is now known as the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
The North East African peoples you posted pictures of were referred to as "Negros". They are Dark-Skinned Caucasoids/Caucasians.
Here comes another cave dweller trying to say Africans are Caucasians... smh Lol
http://www.purduecal.edu/mcnair/cynthia_research.pdf
More than four thousand years ago, there was a great nation of people that rose out of
Ethiopia, and traveled to a land which they called Kemet. Today many people refer to
this great land as Egypt. Ancient Egypt (Kemet) has a very long and extraordinary
history. However, modern society has failed to accurately represent the racial identity of
ancient Egyptians. Consequently, the purpose of the present research was to provide
accurate information about the identity of ancient Egyptians. Biblical evidence was
utilized as well as interviews with docents from Chicago's Oriental Institute and Field
Museum of Natural History whose area of expertise is ancient Egypt. Literature is
reviewed that addresses ancient Egyptians' portrayal of themselves artistically and
experimental research on the melanin dosages of ancient Egyptian mummies. Results of
the evidence reviewed suggest that ancient Egyptians were true Africans prior to their
intermingling with other races. That is, their ? features, skin tone, hair, etc. were
similar to the members of the Negroid racial group. Despite the available evidence, the
media has consistently portrayed ancient Egyptians as having Caucasian features.
Historians and educators need to insist that accurate information concerning the identity
of ancient Egypt be disseminated to society so that people are more aware of the actual
racial identity of these individuals.
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stillmatic_01 wrote: »the north east african peoples you posted pictures of were never referred to as "negros". They are dark-skinned caucasoids/caucasians.
lmao you are sick in the mind and brainwashed by western media programming... Never ever were my ancestors referred to as caucasoid or of neanderthal bloodline as you are.
The ancient egyptians were pure blood negroid people you damn demon cave dweller. -
It's not just western scientists, it is also eastern ones confirming this. The only ones denying it are the racists like yourself.
why did you avoid reading the study below and clicking the link? and the only scientist that support the lies of western civilization are those ones that have sold out to them and wish to keep a status quo in effect... there are also scientist that tell the truth that the ancient egyptians were a ? origin. But I bet you ignore this right DEMON?
http://www.purduecal.edu/mcnair/cynthia_research.pdf
More than four thousand years ago, there was a great nation of people that rose out of
Ethiopia, and traveled to a land which they called Kemet. Today many people refer to
this great land as Egypt. Ancient Egypt (Kemet) has a very long and extraordinary
history. However, modern society has failed to accurately represent the racial identity of
ancient Egyptians. Consequently, the purpose of the present research was to provide
accurate information about the identity of ancient Egyptians. Biblical evidence was
utilized as well as interviews with docents from Chicago's Oriental Institute and Field
Museum of Natural History whose area of expertise is ancient Egypt. Literature is
reviewed that addresses ancient Egyptians' portrayal of themselves artistically and
experimental research on the melanin dosages of ancient Egyptian mummies. Results of
the evidence reviewed suggest that ancient Egyptians were true Africans prior to their
intermingling with other races. That is, their ? features, skin tone, hair, etc. were
similar to the members of the Negroid racial group. Despite the available evidence, the
media has consistently portrayed ancient Egyptians as having Caucasian features.
Historians and educators need to insist that accurate information concerning the identity
of ancient Egypt be disseminated to society so that people are more aware of the actual
racial identity of these individuals.
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You being a racist ? ^
http://www.purduecal.edu/mcnair/cynthia_research.pdf
More than four thousand years ago, there was a great nation of people that rose out of
Ethiopia, and traveled to a land which they called Kemet. Today many people refer to
this great land as Egypt. Ancient Egypt (Kemet) has a very long and extraordinary
history. However, modern society has failed to accurately represent the racial identity of
ancient Egyptians. Consequently, the purpose of the present research was to provide
accurate information about the identity of ancient Egyptians. Biblical evidence was
utilized as well as interviews with docents from Chicago's Oriental Institute and Field
Museum of Natural History whose area of expertise is ancient Egypt. Literature is
reviewed that addresses ancient Egyptians' portrayal of themselves artistically and
experimental research on the melanin dosages of ancient Egyptian mummies. Results of
the evidence reviewed suggest that ancient Egyptians were true Africans prior to their
intermingling with other races. That is, their ? features, skin tone, hair, etc. were
similar to the members of the Negroid racial group. Despite the available evidence, the
media has consistently portrayed ancient Egyptians as having Caucasian features.
Historians and educators need to insist that accurate information concerning the identity
of ancient Egypt be disseminated to society so that people are more aware of the actual
racial identity of these individuals.
yea it means nothing to a racist neanderthal mutated demon like you... Lol -
You being a racist ? ^
http://www.purduecal.edu/mcnair/cynthia_research.pdf
More than four thousand years ago, there was a great nation of people that rose out of
Ethiopia, and traveled to a land which they called Kemet. Today many people refer to
this great land as Egypt. Ancient Egypt (Kemet) has a very long and extraordinary
history. However, modern society has failed to accurately represent the racial identity of
ancient Egyptians. Consequently, the purpose of the present research was to provide
accurate information about the identity of ancient Egyptians. Biblical evidence was
utilized as well as interviews with docents from Chicago's Oriental Institute and Field
Museum of Natural History whose area of expertise is ancient Egypt. Literature is
reviewed that addresses ancient Egyptians' portrayal of themselves artistically and
experimental research on the melanin dosages of ancient Egyptian mummies. Results of
the evidence reviewed suggest that ancient Egyptians were true Africans prior to their
intermingling with other races. That is, their ? features, skin tone, hair, etc. were
similar to the members of the Negroid racial group. Despite the available evidence, the
media has consistently portrayed ancient Egyptians as having Caucasian features.
Historians and educators need to insist that accurate information concerning the identity
of ancient Egypt be disseminated to society so that people are more aware of the actual
racial identity of these individuals.
at first your neanderthal cave man ass claim black images that look EXACTLY like modern Negros don't mean that they are ? ? You got to be out yo rabbit mind u cave dwelling demon. Lol read the article below devil.
The controversy regarding the race of the residents of ancient Kemet (Egypt) aka the “pyramid builders” still exists, but only in the minds of those who are uninformed or whose racial prejudices prevent them from accepting the truth. Another failing of our educational systems. Racism has played, and still plays, a major role in how people of color are portrayed in world history.
The scientific proof that ancient Egyptians were Black was presented in 1978 by Cheikh Anta Diop at the Cairo Symposium. Diop developed the “melanin dosage test,” which was a simple test that could determine the phenotype of the Egyptian royal mummies by examining the melanin content present in their skin. Diop states, “…show a melanin level which is nonexistent in the white skinned races. Let us simply say that the evaluation of melanin level by microscopic examination is a laboratory method which enables us to classify the ancient Egyptians unquestionably among the black races.”
Anthony T. Browder sums up the continuing debate quite nicely:
Despite the research of Drs. Diop and Obenga, numerous issues concerning the ethnicity of the ancient Egyptians and the Egyptian contributions to civilization continue to be discussed and debated. Some scholars will never accept the fact that Africans (blacks) had anything to do with the development if Nile Valley civilizations and the culture that emerged in the northern most region of the Nile Valley, Egypt.
If this doesn’t convince you, more evidence can be found written in heiroglyphs by the Egyptians themselves. According to Browder:
Carvings from the tomb of Rameses III (1200 BCE) portray the Nubians and Kemites as identical and Indo-Europeans and Semites as profoundly different in physical appearance and dress.
It is as foolhardy to suggest that the people of Kemet were phenotypically different from their Nubian, Sudanese or Ethiopian neighbors, as it is to suggest that the people of France, Switzerland, and Germany are phenotypically different from one another.
Why does any of this matter? The reasons are many and explanations are lengthy, but a knowledge of Black/African history is an important baseline to establish cultural pride, the will to continue certain cultural traditions, and protect against cultural attacks from outsiders and those that would downplay our importance on the world stage. Ancient Nile Valley Civilization was unequivocally the most advanced civilization in recorded history until modern times. We still can’t replicate some of the structures they built or systems they produced. There has been an attempt to take this history away from Black people (and Africa by claiming that Egypt is apart of the Middle East) and attribute it to Caucasians, Arabs, or Semites. But this is Black history and we must learn it and teach it as such.
For hundreds of year Europeans have controlled and manipulated history and how it is recorded and perceived with the aid of so-called objective scientists and historians. This affects how we think about the past and possibilities for the future as well as serves to enhance the belief (by white and non-white people alike) in the superiority of European/Western civilization and that it is the originator of modern civilization itself (science, math, philosophy, religion, etc). Nothing could be further from the truth. This is a struggle against attempted cultural assassination and mentacide.
Browder puts it this way when paraphrasing George Orwell, “Whoever controls the image and information of the past will determine what and how future generations will think; and, whoever controls the information and images of the present, will also determine how those same people will view the past.”
Source: Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony T. Browder, Introduction by Dr. John Henrik Clarke -
Ham was one of Noah's three sons, Shem and Japheth were the other two. Noah's descendants repopulated the earth after the Great Flood. Ham's descendants are traced to the families of Africa. Ham (Khawm) in Hebrew means BLACK, HOT AND BURNT.
Ham had four sons,
1. CUSH (Ethiopians / Cushites & Nubians),
2. MIZRAIM (Egyptians / Khemet),
3. PHUT (Ancient Somalia),
4. CANAAN (Canaanite, the original inhabitants of the land of Israel) genesis 10:6-19.
All four of Ham's sons and their descendants settled in and around the continent of Africa, this includes the so called Middle East which is also a part of the Continent of Africa. Ham sons are the people of the African continent, the Ancient Egyptians, Ethiopians, Somalia's, Canaanites etc etc.
THE MIDDLE EAST AND INDIA was populated by AFRICANS that traveled out of north east africa -
melanin levels do not dictate race, they only dictate color. Color does not determine race.
Try again ? . Maybe this time choose some evidence from someone who doesn't have every single thesis rejected due to the high levels or racism, ignorance and stupidity in them.
demon show me a nation in africa where i can find black people with wooly hair and ? features that classify "themselves" as caucasoid? Don't give me no western based bs. -
waterproof wrote: »Ham was one of Noah's three sons, Shem and Japheth were the other two. Noah's descendants repopulated the earth after the Great Flood. Ham's descendants are traced to the families of Africa. Ham (Khawm) in Hebrew means BLACK, HOT AND BURNT.
Ham had four sons,
1. CUSH (Ethiopians / Cushites & Nubians),
2. MIZRAIM (Egyptians / Khemet),
3. PHUT (Ancient Somalia),
4. CANAAN (Canaanite, the original inhabitants of the land of Israel) genesis 10:6-19.
All four of Ham's sons and their descendants settled in and around the continent of Africa, this includes the so called Middle East which is also a part of the Continent of Africa. Ham sons are the people of the African continent, the Ancient Egyptians, Ethiopians, Somalia's, Canaanites etc etc.
THE MIDDLE EAST AND INDIA was populated by AFRICANS that traveled out of north east africa
thank you!
certain demons don't want to accept the truth of ancient egyptians being a negroid people. -
It's not just western scientists, it is also eastern ones confirming this. The only ones denying it are the racists like yourself.
Gerald Massey, English writer and author of the book, Egypt the Light of the World, wrote, "The dignity is so ancient that the insignia of the Pharaoh evidently belonged to the time when Egyptians wore nothing but the girdle of the ? ." (p 251)
Sir Richard Francis Burton, a 19th century English explorer, writer and linguist in 1883 wrote to Gerald Massey, "You are quite right about the "AFRICAN" origin of the Egyptians. I have 100 human skulls to prove it."
Scientist, R. T. Prittchett, states in his book The Natural History of Man, "In their complex and many of the complexions and in physical peculiarities the Egyptians were an "AFRICAN" race (p 124-125).
The Ancient Greek historian Herodotus, who visited Egypt in the 5th century B.C.E., saw the Egyptians face to face and described them as black-skinned with woolly hair.
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It isn't clear they are negroid. It's only clear they were of dark skin.
Ignoramus.
Anthropologist, Count Constatin de Volney (1727-1820),spoke about the race of the Egyptians that produced the Pharaohs. He later paid tribute to Herodotus' discovery when he said:
The ancient Egyptians were true Negroes of the same type as all native born Africans. That being so, we can see how their blood mixed for several centuries with that of the Romans and Greeks, must have lost the intensity of it's original color, while retaining none the less the imprint of it's original mold. We can even state as a general principle that the face (referring to The Sphinx) is a kind of monument able, in many cases, to attest to or shed light on historical evidence on the origins of the people."
The fact that the ancient Egyptians were black-skin prompted Volney to make the following statement:
"What a subject for meditation, just think that the race of black men today our slaves and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, science and even the use of our speech." -
Egyptians, Libyans, Moroccans, etc etc
I don't know how many times I have to tell you but Libyan Gaddafi is an Arab and modern Egyptians are ARABS...
NONE of them are descendants of the Ancient Egyptians. They invaded that land long after Egypt fell as a civilization just like Europeans invaded America... That does not mean you are a descendant of Native American Indians tho. -
Ancient egyptians were also caucasoids
I can't wait for that day to come....
I bet that's why you IGNORED this here right?
Anthropologist, Count Constatin de Volney (1727-1820),spoke about the race of the Egyptians that produced the Pharaohs. He later paid tribute to Herodotus' discovery when he said:
The ancient Egyptians were true Negroes of the same type as all native born Africans. That being so, we can see how their blood mixed for several centuries with that of the Romans and Greeks, must have lost the intensity of it's original color, while retaining none the less the imprint of it's original mold. We can even state as a general principle that the face (referring to The Sphinx) is a kind of monument able, in many cases, to attest to or shed light on historical evidence on the origins of the people."
The fact that the ancient Egyptians were black-skin prompted Volney to make the following statement:
"What a subject for meditation, just think that the race of black men today our slaves and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, science and even the use of our speech." -
Ancient egyptians were also caucasoids
i just shut your ? ass up, you is more ? then you look. i post historical, archaeological,anthropological evidence from scientist,Anthropologist and historians who seen the ancient egyptians
and you try to twist ? now, no the ancient egyptians was nothing like you, they wasn't white or mutts they was AFRICAN BLACK!!! only after THOUSANDS OF YEARS they became mixed -
Ancient egyptians were also caucasoids
Vivant Denon etched the image of the Sphinx of Giza around 1798, prior to its defacement. This image and written account (a part of Dr. Freeman's collection) is from the 1803 issue of Universal Magazine. From that same magazine, here is the written account in Denon's own words, "...Though its proportions are colossal, the outline is pure and graceful; the expression of the head is mild, gracious, and tranquil; the character is African, but the mouth, and lips of which are thick, has a softness and delicacy of execution truly admirable; it seems real life and flesh. Art must have been at a high pitch when this monument was executed; for, if the head wants what is called style, that is the say, the straight and bold lines which give expression to the figures under which the Greeks have designated their deities, yet sufficient justice has been rendered to the fine simplicity and character of nature which is displayed in this figure...". The Sphinx of Giza image is from the Joel A. Freeman Black History Collection.
In 1787, a Frenchman who visited Egypt for the first time expressed amazement that the Egyptians – whose civilization was greatly admired in Europe – were not White! "All the Egyptians," wrote Count Constantine de Volney, "have a bloated face, puffed-up eyes, flat nose, thick lips I was tempted to attribute it to the climate, but when I visited the Sphinx, its appearance gave me the key to the riddle. On seeing that head, typically ? in all its features, I remembered the remarkable passage where Herodotus says:
'As for me, I judge the Colchians to be a colony of the Egyptians because, like them, they are black with woolly hair...' "In other words, the ancient Egyptians were true Negroes of the same type as all native-born Africans. That being so, we can see how their blood, mixed for several centuries with that of the Greeks and Romans, must have lost the intensity of its original color, while retaining nonetheless the imprint of its original mold."
Count de Volney then made an observation that still applies today in the debate about how much racial truth our children and other children will be taught in the public schools: "Just think," de Volney declared incredulously, "that this race of Black men, today our slave and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, sciences, and even the use of speech! Just imagine, finally, that it is in the midst of people (i.e., Americans) who call themselves the greatest friends of liberty and humanity that one has approved the most barbarous slavery, and questioned whether Black men have the same kind of intelligence as whites!" -
the Ancient Egyptians looked towards Punt, located somewhere in Present day eritrea as their national homeland. "Black" Nubians were chosen as wives for Pharaoh's much of the time. Trying to categorize some Egyptians as black or "true" Africans is a silly act paying no heed to the ideas on race of the people themselves. All Egyptians (aside from the Pharaohs of Ptolemaic Egypt and other invaders) were of African Origin. That is that. There are blacks with caucasion physical features that does not make them any less black african. We must understand that the black race is different from the rest as we have a wider phenotype just look at the igbo and compare them to some of the other african tribes.
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200 years from now people are going to think that george washington and the other founding fathers looked like mexicans - that's what the people who say that egypt was not black sound like.
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the Ancient Egyptians looked towards Punt, located somewhere in Present day eritrea as their national homeland. "Black" Nubians were chosen as wives for Pharaoh's much of the time. Trying to categorize some Egyptians as black or "true" Africans is a silly act paying no heed to the ideas on race of the people themselves. All Egyptians (aside from the Pharaohs of Ptolemaic Egypt and other invaders) were of African Origin. That is that. There are blacks with caucasion physical features that does not make them any less black african. We must understand that the black race is different from the rest as we have a wider phenotype just look at the igbo and compare them to some of the other african tribes.
man look here let me break it down like this, Egyptians came from ethiopia aka the birthplace of black civilization they called themselves sisters of ethiopia, Egypt was a colony of ethiopia, the ancient egyptians even said they from ethiopia. THEY WAS BLACK!!! WOOLY HAIR, BLACK SKIN, THICK LIPS.
THE GREEK HISTORIAN WHO SEEN THEM FACE TO FACE The Ancient Greek historian Herodotus, who visited Egypt in the 5th century B.C.E., saw the Egyptians face to face and described them as black-skinned with woolly hair. -
waterproof wrote: »man look here let me break it down like this, Egyptians came from ethiopia aka the birthplace of black civilization they called themselves sisters of ethiopia, Egypt was a colony of ethiopia, the ancient egyptians even said they from ethiopia. THEY WAS BLACK!!! WOOLY HAIR, BLACK SKIN, THICK LIPS.
THE GREEK HISTORIAN WHO SEEN THEM FACE TO FACE The Ancient Greek historian Herodotus, who visited Egypt in the 5th century B.C.E., saw the Egyptians face to face and described them as black-skinned with woolly hair.
Why would the egyptians call themselves the sisters of ethopia. If they were a colony would not it make more sense to call themselves children of ethopia. The eyptians came from punt the land of the gods. Black does not always mean thick lips and hair like a west african that's white man thinking that's how he separates one african from the next. -
They were caucasoids, the haploid testing proves it.
Melanin tests mean nothing when compared to the more accurate detector of race: haploid testing.
Calling someone caucasoid does not make them non african black so i don't see your point. -
They were caucasoids, the haploid testing proves it.
Melanin tests mean nothing when compared to the more accurate detector of race: haploid testing.
you are a true demon!
even tho the ancient egyptians were JET BLACK where do you see them talking about the skin color below?
In 1787, a Frenchman who visited Egypt for the first time expressed amazement that the Egyptians – whose civilization was greatly admired in Europe – were not White! "All the Egyptians," wrote Count Constantine de Volney, "have a bloated face, puffed-up eyes, flat nose, thick lips I was tempted to attribute it to the climate, but when I visited the Sphinx, its appearance gave me the key to the riddle. On seeing that head, typically ? in all its features, I remembered the remarkable passage where Herodotus says:
'As for me, I judge the Colchians to be a colony of the Egyptians because, like them, they are black with woolly hair...' "In other words, the ancient Egyptians were true Negroes of the same type as all native-born Africans. That being so, we can see how their blood, mixed for several centuries with that of the Greeks and Romans, must have lost the intensity of its original color, while retaining nonetheless the imprint of its original mold." -
Why would the egyptians call themselves the sisters of ethopia. If they were a colony would not it make more sense to call themselves children of ethopia. The eyptians came from punt the land of the gods. Black does not always mean thick lips and hair like a west african that's white man thinking that's how he separates one african from the next.
my bad you stand correct about Phut where the Egyptians came from. They seen ethiopia as the birthplace of the black race and called themselves the children of ethiopia. It was ethiopia who came to egypt rescue when europeans tried to invade africa through egyot -
http://web.ebscohost.com.library.sheridanc.on.ca/ehost/detail?sid=3bb9e5d7-28da-4b85-8c6f-c5bafb4384a1%40sessionmgr111&vid=1&hid=113&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#db=a9h&AN=9410121998
Read that?
means the skeletal structure of ancient egyptians is akin to that of caucosoids
The haploid testing has also shown that the blood of modern egyptians matches that of ancient egyptians
You can bring up all the dated ? you want. DNA reigns supreme.
Have you tested the Ancient Egyptian DNA or are you putting your trust in white demons that will never admit the truth?
As far as the skeletal structure we can clearly see that they are ? in structure with our own eyes... but you rather believe what a lying demon scientist says.
Evidence from Physical Anthropology
The skeletons and skulls of the Ancient Egyptians clearly reflect they were Negroid people with features very similar to those of modern Black Nubians and other people of the Upper Nile and of East Africa.
Melanin Dosage Test
Egyptologist Cheikh Anta Diop invented a method for determining the level of melanin in the skin of human beings. When conducted on Egyptian mummies in the Museum of Man in Paris, this test indicated these remains were of Black people.
Osteological Evidence
"Lepsius canon," which distinguishes the ? proportions of various racial groups categories the "ideal Egyptian" as "short-armed and of Negroid or Negrito physical type."
Evidence From Blood Types
Diop notes that even after hundreds of years of inter-mixture with foreign invaders, the blood type of modern Egyptians is the "same group B as the populations of western Africa on the Atlantic seaboard and not the A2 Group characteristic of the white race prior to any crossbreeding."
The Egyptians as They Saw Themselves
"The Egyptians had only one term to designate themselves =kmt= the Negroes (literally). This is the strongest term existing in the Pharaonic tongue to indicate blackness; it is accordingly written with a hieroglyph representing a length of wood charred at the end and not crocodile scales," singular. ‘Kmt’ from the adjective =kmt= black; it therefore means strictly Negroes or at the very least black men. The term is a collective noun which thus described the whole people of Pharaonic Egypt as a black people."
Divine Epithets
Diop demonstrates that "black or ? " is the divine epithet invariably used for the chief beneficent Gods of Egypt, while the evil spirits were depicted as red.
Evidence From the Bible
The Bible states"…[t]he sons of Ham [were] Cush and Mizraim [i.e. Egypt], and Phut, and Canaan. And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah and Sabtechah." According to Biblical tradition, Ham, of course, was the father of the Black race. "Generally speaking all Semitic tradition (Jewish and Arab) class ancient Egypt with the countries of the Black."
Cultural unity of Egypt With The Rest of Africa
Through a study of circumcision and totemism. Diop gives detailed data showing cultural unity between Egypt and the rest of Africa.
Linguistic Unity With Southern and Western Africa
In a detailed study of languages, Diop clearly demonstrates that Ancient Egyptian, modern Coptic of Egypt and Walaf of West Africa are related, with the latter two having their origin in the former.
Testimony of Classical Greek and Roman Authors
Virtually all of the early Latin eyewitnesses described the Ancient Egyptians as Black skinned with wooly hair. -
Because of the great lapse. of time, it seems almost impossible to locate the original seat of the old Ethiopian empire. Bochart thought it was “Happy Araby,” that from this central point the Cushite race spread eastward and westward. Some authorities like Gesenius thought it was Africa. The Greeks looked to old Ethiopia and called the Upper Nile the common cradle of mankind. Toward the rich luxurience of this region they looked for the “Garden of Eden.” From these people of the Upper Nile arose the oldest traditions and rites and from them sprang the first colonies and arts of antiquity. The Greeks also said that Egyptians derived their civilization and religion from Ethiopia. “Egyptian religion was not an original conception, for three thousand years ago she had lost all true sense of its real meaning among even the priesthood.” (Budge, Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection–Preface.) Yet Egyptian forms of worship are understood and practiced among the Ethiopians of Nubia today. The common people of Egypt never truly understood their religion, this was why it so easily became debased.
Ptolemaic writers said that Egypt was formed of the mud carried down, from Ethiopia, that Ethiopians were the first men that ever lived, the only truly autochthonous race and the first to institute the worship of the gods and the rites of sacrifice. Egypt itself was a colony of Ethiopia and the laws and script of both lands were naturally the same; but the hieroglyphic script was more widely known to the ? in Ethiopia than in Egypt. (Diodorus Siculus, bk. iii, ch. 3.) This knowledge of writing was universal in Ethiopia but was confined to the priestly classes alone in Egypt. This was because the Egyptian priesthood was Ethiopian. The highly developed Merodic inscriptions are not found in Egypt north of the first cataract or in Nubia south of Soba. These are differences we would expect to find between a colony and a parent body. Herodotus (bk. ii, p. 29) says that Meroe was a great city and metropolis, most of its buildings were of red brick. 800 B. C. at Napata, the buildings were of hard stone. (Meroe–Crowfoot, pp. 6, 30.)
The Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature says, “There is every reason to conclude that the separate colonies of priestcraft spread from Meroe into Egypt; and the primeval monuments in Ethiopia strongly confirm the native traditions, reported by Diodorus Siculus, that the worship of Zeus-Ammon originated in Meroe, also the worship of Osiris. This would render highly probable the opinion that commerce, science and art descended into Egypt from the Upper Nile. Herodotus called the Ethiopians “Wisemen occupying the Upper Nile, men of long life, whose manners and customs pertain to the Golden Age,those virtuous mortals, whose feasts and banquets are honored by Jupiter himself.” In Greek times, the Egyptians depicted Ethiopia as an ideal state. The Puranas, the ancient historical books of India, speak of the civilization of Ethiopia as being older than that of Egypt. These Sanskrit books mention the names of old Cushite kings that were worshipped in India and who were adopted and changed to suit the fancy of the later people of Greece and Rome.
The Hindu Puranas speak of the Cushites going to India before they went to Egypt, proving Hindu civilization coeval with that of Chaldea and the country of the Nile. These ancients record that the Egyptians were a colony drawn out from Cusha-Dwipa and that the Palli, another colony that made the Phoenicians followed them from the land of Cush. In those primitive days, the central seat of Ethiopia was not the Meroe of our day, which is very ancient, but a kingdom that preceeded it by many ages; that was called Meru. Lenormant spoke of the first men of the ancient world as “Men of Meru.” Sanskrit writers called Indra, chief ? of the Hindu, king of Meru. He was deified and became the chief representative of the supreme being. Thus was primitive India settled by colonists from Ethiopia. Early writers said there was very little difference in the color or features of the people of the two countri
The Hindu Puranas speak of the Cushites going to India before they went to Egypt, proving Hindu civilization coeval with that of Chaldea and the country of the Nile. These ancients record that the Egyptians were a colony drawn out from Cusha-Dwipa and that the Palli, another colony that made the Phoenicians followed them from the land of Cush. In those primitive days, the central seat of Ethiopia was not the Meroe of our day, which is very ancient, but a kingdom that preceeded it by many ages; that was called Meru. Lenormant spoke of the first men of the ancient world as “Men of Meru.” Sanskrit writers called Indra, chief ? of the Hindu, king of Meru. He was deified and became the chief representative of the supreme being. Thus was primitive India settled by colonists from Ethiopia. Early writers said there was very little difference in the color or features of the people of the two countries. -
Ancient traditions told of the deeds of Deva Nahusha, another sovereign of Meru, who extended his empire over three worlds. The lost literature of Asia Minor dealt with this extension of the Ethiopian domain. An old poem “Phrygia,” was a history of Dionysus, one of the most celebrated of the old Ethiopians. It was written in a very old language and character. He preceeded Menes by many ages. Baldwin says that the authentic books that would have given us the true history concerning him, perished long before the Hellenes. The Greeks of historical times distorted the story of Dionysus and converted him into their drunken ? of wine. “They misconstrued and misused the old Cushite mythology, wherever they failed to understand it, and sought to appropriate it entirely to themselves.” One of the poetical versions of the taking of Troy, on the coast of Asia Minor, was entitled “The Æthiops,” because the inhabitants of Troy, as we shall prove later, who fought so valiantly in the Trojan war, were Cushite Ethiopians. This version presented the conflict as an Egyptian war.
In those early ages Egypt was under Ethiopian ? . In proof of this fact, the Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature says, “Isaiah often mentions Ethiopia and Egypt in close political relations. In fine the name of Ethiopia chiefly stood as the name of the national and royal family of Egypt. In the beginning Egypt was ruled from Ethiopia. Ethiopia was ruined by her wars with Egypt, which she sometimes subdued and sometimes served.” Modern books contain but little information about the country of the Upper Nile, but archaic books were full of the story of the wonderful Ethiopians. The ancients said that they settled Egypt. Is it possible that we could know more about the origin of this nation than they? Reclus says, “The people occupying the plateau of the Blue Nile, are conscious of a glorious past and proudly call themselves Ethiopians.” He calls the whole triangular space between the Nile and the Red Sea, Ethiopia proper. This vast highland constituted a world apart. From it went forth the inspiration and light now bearing its fruit in the life of younger nations.
Heeren thought, that excepting the Egyptians, no aboriginal people of Africa so claim our attention as the Ethiopians. He asks, “To what shall we attribute the renown of this one of the most distant nations of the earth? How did the fame of her name permeate the terrible deserts that surrounded her: and even yet form an insuperable bar to all who approach. A great many nations distant and different from one another are called Ethiopians. Africa contains the greater number of them and a considerable tract in Asia was occupied by this race. The Ethiopians were distinguished from the other races by a very dark or completely black skin. ” (Heeren’s Historical Researches–Ethiopian Nations. Ch. 1, p. 46) Existing monuments confirm the high antiquity of Meroe. In the Persian period Ethiopia was an important and independent state, which Cambyses vainly attempted to subdue. Rosellini thinks that the right of Sabaco and Tirhakah, Ethiopian kings, who sat upon the throne of Egypt in the latter days, must have been more by right of descent than by usurpation or force of arms. “This may be judged,” he says, “by the respect paid to their monuments by their successors.”
The pictures on the Egyptian monuments reveal that Ethiopians were the builders. They, not the Egyptians, were the master-craftsmen of the earlier ages. The first courses of the pyramids were built of Ethiopian stone. The Cushites were a sacerdotal or priestly race. There was a religious and astronomical significance in the position and shape of the pyramids. Dubois points to the fact that in Upper Egypt there were pictured black priests who were conferring upon red Egyptians, the instruments and symbols of priesthood. Ethiopians in very early ages had an original and astounding religion, which included the rite of human sacrifice. It lingered on in the early life of Greece and Home. Dowd explains this rite in this way: “The African offered his nearest and dearest, not from depravity but from a greater love for the supreme being.” The priestly caste was more influencial upon the Upper Nile than in Egypt. With the withdrawal of the Ethiopian priesthood from Egypt to Napata, the people of the Lower Nile lost the sense of the real meaning of their religion, which steadily deteriorated with their language after their separation from Ethiopia.
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