"Boat-building and its social context in early Egypt: interpretations from the First Dynasty boat-grave cemetery at Abydos,"
by Cheryl Ward in the journal Antiquity; Mar2006, Vol. 80 Issue 307, p118-129, 12p claims boat building evolved independently in Egypt--during (and perhaps before) the First Dynasty.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Did Egypt Develop Independently of Nubia?--Part 2
Furthermore the article from the USA Today, APR 18, 2002, "First writing may have started under real-life 'Scorpion King' ,"
goes on to state: "During the 1990s, archaeologists led by Gunter Dreyer of the German Institute of Archaeology in Cairo, uncovered a tomb at the site of Adybos that may have been the tomb of a ruler who used "Scorpion" in his title. Other pottery found at the tomb involved another ruler, whose symbol involved a bull's head on a pole.
"At that time, around 3250 B.C., the cities of the Nile valley traded over the desert both to the west and the east, Darnell says. The tableau found by his team seems to recount the victory of the Scorpion King from Adybos over the ancient city of Naqada-a, whose symbol was a bull's head, a conquest that centralized political control over trade in southern Egypt.
"But King Scorpion I seems to have been important for more than just his battlefield prowess. Dreyer's team found evidence that by the time of his death, the hieroglyphic writing of ancient Egypt had already flowered in the Nile Valley under his reign. Scholars still debate this conclusion, which would move the earliest writing from Sumer (in today's Iraq) to Egypt."
Thus writing may have begun independently also--but realize what the last paragraph says: "Scholars still debate this conclusion, which would move the earliest writing from Sumer (in today's Iraq) to Egypt."
goes on to state: "During the 1990s, archaeologists led by Gunter Dreyer of the German Institute of Archaeology in Cairo, uncovered a tomb at the site of Adybos that may have been the tomb of a ruler who used "Scorpion" in his title. Other pottery found at the tomb involved another ruler, whose symbol involved a bull's head on a pole.
"At that time, around 3250 B.C., the cities of the Nile valley traded over the desert both to the west and the east, Darnell says. The tableau found by his team seems to recount the victory of the Scorpion King from Adybos over the ancient city of Naqada-a, whose symbol was a bull's head, a conquest that centralized political control over trade in southern Egypt.
"But King Scorpion I seems to have been important for more than just his battlefield prowess. Dreyer's team found evidence that by the time of his death, the hieroglyphic writing of ancient Egypt had already flowered in the Nile Valley under his reign. Scholars still debate this conclusion, which would move the earliest writing from Sumer (in today's Iraq) to Egypt."
Thus writing may have begun independently also--but realize what the last paragraph says: "Scholars still debate this conclusion, which would move the earliest writing from Sumer (in today's Iraq) to Egypt."
Did Egypt Develop Independently of Nubia?
I will bring in more evidence for a Nubian influence for the development of Egypt's First Dynasty, but first--evidence Egypt may have developed independently--or at least had segments of its development come to age independently.
The February 12, 2008 issue of the New York Times had an article by By John Noble Wilford. It stated: "Long before the rule of pharaohs, Egyptians grew wheat and barley and raised pigs, goats, sheep and cattle. Spotty evidence had suggested that agriculture was practiced there more than 7,000 years ago, two millenniums earlier than the first royal dynasties."
In addition: From the USA Today, APR 18, 2002, "First writing may have started under real-life 'Scorpion King' ,"
The article states: "Once upon a time, long before movies were ever invented, a genuine "Scorpion King" may have ruled southern Egypt, researchers say.
"King Scorpion I, as archaeologists call him, ruled much of ancient Egypt more than 5,000 years ago, says Egyptologist John Darnell of Yale University. A team he led uncovered rock inscriptions in 1995, the "Scorpion Tableau," that seem to describe the Scorpion King's reign, a pivotal point in the history of Egypt and of writing itself.
"He may in fact have been the man who united all of southern Egypt," Darnell says. He and other researchers suspect King Scorpion I was the first in the line of rulers who preceded the first dynasty of the Pharaohs. The Pharoahs ruled both the southern Nile Valley and northern Nile Delta, or upper and lower Egypt."
The key words here are: King Scorpion I was the first in the line of rulers who preceded the first dynasty of the Pharaohs.
The February 12, 2008 issue of the New York Times had an article by By John Noble Wilford. It stated: "Long before the rule of pharaohs, Egyptians grew wheat and barley and raised pigs, goats, sheep and cattle. Spotty evidence had suggested that agriculture was practiced there more than 7,000 years ago, two millenniums earlier than the first royal dynasties."
In addition: From the USA Today, APR 18, 2002, "First writing may have started under real-life 'Scorpion King' ,"
The article states: "Once upon a time, long before movies were ever invented, a genuine "Scorpion King" may have ruled southern Egypt, researchers say.
"King Scorpion I, as archaeologists call him, ruled much of ancient Egypt more than 5,000 years ago, says Egyptologist John Darnell of Yale University. A team he led uncovered rock inscriptions in 1995, the "Scorpion Tableau," that seem to describe the Scorpion King's reign, a pivotal point in the history of Egypt and of writing itself.
"He may in fact have been the man who united all of southern Egypt," Darnell says. He and other researchers suspect King Scorpion I was the first in the line of rulers who preceded the first dynasty of the Pharaohs. The Pharoahs ruled both the southern Nile Valley and northern Nile Delta, or upper and lower Egypt."
The key words here are: King Scorpion I was the first in the line of rulers who preceded the first dynasty of the Pharaohs.
Egypt Revisited--More Evidence for the Case of Nubia Developing egypt
In the book, EGYPT REVISITED, edited by Ivan Van Sertima, there is a preponderance of evidence that Nubia influenced--if not developed Egypt and that is how the First Dynasty started off as a fully functioning institution. Nubia had a Pharaoh government in place before Egypt, many of the Egyptian gods were first worshiped in Nubia, and Nubia already had developed pyramids.
Additional research in other books shows that Nubia had mining and advanced pottery techniques in place before Egypt.
But--there is also evidence that Egypt may have developed segments of its culture independently. This brings a new question: If parts of Egypt developed independently, why couldn't the entire First Dynasty develop independently?
Additional research in other books shows that Nubia had mining and advanced pottery techniques in place before Egypt.
But--there is also evidence that Egypt may have developed segments of its culture independently. This brings a new question: If parts of Egypt developed independently, why couldn't the entire First Dynasty develop independently?
Saturday, November 28, 2009
More Proof Egyypt was Founded by Nubians
"...{T}he cultural unity and kinshin...identifies Nubia (as a) link...responsible for establishing the rudiments of culture that would become Kemet. Self-identification; African philosophy; Foundation of human culture; Deities of upper and lower Kemet; Place names and customs; (all of this places) Africa as the foundation of human culture."
--Nobles, Vera L. Journal of Black Studies; Mar1996, Vol. 26 Issue 4, p431, 16p.
More proof later--Michael H. Brownstein, your Nubian Detective.
--Nobles, Vera L. Journal of Black Studies; Mar1996, Vol. 26 Issue 4, p431, 16p.
More proof later--Michael H. Brownstein, your Nubian Detective.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Egypt was Founded by Nubians
In the last blog, I explained away the UFO theory. Pyramids and a Pharaoh structure of government--including simple writing techniques, mining and city development began in Nubia at least two hundred years before Egypt.
Egyptians were certainly not European white--they were every shade of color from dark ebony to light skinned.
"We might ask, "What color were the ancient Egyptians?" Being on the continent, Egypt has always been an African civilization though it straddles two regions, Africa and the Middle East. It's fairly clear that the cultural roots of ancient Egypt lie in Africa and not in Asia. Egypt was a subtropical desert environment and its people had migrated from various ethnic groups over its history (and prehistory), thus it was something of a "melting pot," a mixture of many types of people with many skin tones, some certainly from the Sub-Saharan regions and others from more Mediterranean climes. It is impossible to categorize these people into the tidy "black" and "white" terms of today's racial distinctions. The Egyptians are better classified using evidence of their language and their material cultures, historical records, and their physical remains because so-called "racial" identification has been elusive...Skulls have been measured and compared and DNA tests attempted in various forms, but conclusions are few. Skulls are more similar to those found in the Northern Sudan and less similar to those found in West Africa, Palestine, and Turkey. It seems that there has been some genetic continuity from Predynastic time through the Middle Kingdom, after which there was a considerable infiltration into the Nile Valley from outside populations. That the Egyptians by and large were dark is certain, and many must have been what we today call "black." (Orcutt, Larry. What Race Were the Ancient Egyptians? 2000).
To read the entire article, click here.
There was no such thing as racism. This is an invention of Europeans and it is a part of our society still to this day. Racism is not an aspect of this blog but it will have to be--because of racism, Nubia's great civilization was wiped out of the history books.
But first--the next blog will give evidence on how Nubians created Egypt.
Egyptians were certainly not European white--they were every shade of color from dark ebony to light skinned.
"We might ask, "What color were the ancient Egyptians?" Being on the continent, Egypt has always been an African civilization though it straddles two regions, Africa and the Middle East. It's fairly clear that the cultural roots of ancient Egypt lie in Africa and not in Asia. Egypt was a subtropical desert environment and its people had migrated from various ethnic groups over its history (and prehistory), thus it was something of a "melting pot," a mixture of many types of people with many skin tones, some certainly from the Sub-Saharan regions and others from more Mediterranean climes. It is impossible to categorize these people into the tidy "black" and "white" terms of today's racial distinctions. The Egyptians are better classified using evidence of their language and their material cultures, historical records, and their physical remains because so-called "racial" identification has been elusive...Skulls have been measured and compared and DNA tests attempted in various forms, but conclusions are few. Skulls are more similar to those found in the Northern Sudan and less similar to those found in West Africa, Palestine, and Turkey. It seems that there has been some genetic continuity from Predynastic time through the Middle Kingdom, after which there was a considerable infiltration into the Nile Valley from outside populations. That the Egyptians by and large were dark is certain, and many must have been what we today call "black." (Orcutt, Larry. What Race Were the Ancient Egyptians? 2000).
To read the entire article, click here.
There was no such thing as racism. This is an invention of Europeans and it is a part of our society still to this day. Racism is not an aspect of this blog but it will have to be--because of racism, Nubia's great civilization was wiped out of the history books.
But first--the next blog will give evidence on how Nubians created Egypt.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Egypt and UFOs
When I was in high school, UFOs became an interest of mine and many of my peers. There was a lot of evidence that made sense, too--for example: how did egypt begin it's first dynasty full blown? How were they able to create the great pyramids? There was even research about helmeted individuals in the pictures and Hieroglyphics.
I'm not going to go into the research Ufologists gave about Stonehenge or the large land structures found in South America, but I am going to answer the questions above.
Nubia was already building pyramid, it already had a Pharaoh structure to its government, and Nubians were mining gold and other material to build things. In one UFO site, they mention the Nubians by their other name: Seti: "The Great Temple of Amun at Karnak. The Seti II Obelisk at the Great Temple of Amun is about 23 feet high."
Click here to go to the page.
Nubia gave its civilization to Egypt and that's how Egypt began. Not out of the blue, but with help from an African nation.
In my next blogs I will give the evidence I discovered to back this claim.
I'm not going to go into the research Ufologists gave about Stonehenge or the large land structures found in South America, but I am going to answer the questions above.
Nubia was already building pyramid, it already had a Pharaoh structure to its government, and Nubians were mining gold and other material to build things. In one UFO site, they mention the Nubians by their other name: Seti: "The Great Temple of Amun at Karnak. The Seti II Obelisk at the Great Temple of Amun is about 23 feet high."
Click here to go to the page.
Nubia gave its civilization to Egypt and that's how Egypt began. Not out of the blue, but with help from an African nation.
In my next blogs I will give the evidence I discovered to back this claim.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Nubia--And how we change history, part 2
"Evidence of the oldest recognizable monarchy in human history...has been discovered in artifacts from ancient Nubia in Africa...
"The new findings suggest that the ancient Nubians may have reached this stage of political development as long as 3200 B.C., several generations before the earliest documented Egyptian king."--Boyce Rensberger, "Ancient Nubian Artifacts," The New York Times, March 1, 1979
Read the full article here.
"The new findings suggest that the ancient Nubians may have reached this stage of political development as long as 3200 B.C., several generations before the earliest documented Egyptian king."--Boyce Rensberger, "Ancient Nubian Artifacts," The New York Times, March 1, 1979
Read the full article here.
Nubia--and how we change history
Evidence that Nubia came before Egypt.
"...{T}he Nubians to the south...are the remote ancestors of modern towns."--Desmond Stewart, Newsweek, 1971, p. 20
Sumerians can be traced back to the people of Ethiopia.
"...{I}t may be conjectured with the greatest confidence that the arts, sciences and religions descended from Nubia..."
"...{T}he ancestors of the South Egyptians entered the Nile Valley by way of Nubia and brought with them a well-developed civilization, and that this migration took place long before 5000 B.C."
--John G. Jackson: Man, God, and Civilization
"A substantial Ethiopian influence on Isis worship in Greece and in Italy is strongly suggested...by the tradition of Ethiopian association with the cult..."--Frank Snowden, Blacks in Antiquity
Ethiopians invented astronomy. "{They} gave names to the planets."
"The first learned nation was a nation of blacks,"
--Count Volney, Ruins of Empire from the writing of Lucian, an ancient Greek historian
At one point in history, Ethiopians occupied parts of Africa and parts of asia--including India.--George Rawlinson,: On the Ethnic Affinities of the Races of Western Asia. In addition two ancient historians from Greece concurred: Strabo and Ephorus.
"A number of scholars, both ancient and modern, have come to the conclusion that the world's first civilization was created by a people known as Ethiopians."
"...{T}he first civilized inhabitants of ancient Egypt were members of what is referred to as the black race...{or}...Ethiopians."
--John Jackson: Introduction to African Civilization
Egyptians recognize they came from Nubia.--Chik Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilization
"...{T}he Nubians to the south...are the remote ancestors of modern towns."--Desmond Stewart, Newsweek, 1971, p. 20
Sumerians can be traced back to the people of Ethiopia.
"...{I}t may be conjectured with the greatest confidence that the arts, sciences and religions descended from Nubia..."
"...{T}he ancestors of the South Egyptians entered the Nile Valley by way of Nubia and brought with them a well-developed civilization, and that this migration took place long before 5000 B.C."
--John G. Jackson: Man, God, and Civilization
"A substantial Ethiopian influence on Isis worship in Greece and in Italy is strongly suggested...by the tradition of Ethiopian association with the cult..."--Frank Snowden, Blacks in Antiquity
Ethiopians invented astronomy. "{They} gave names to the planets."
"The first learned nation was a nation of blacks,"
--Count Volney, Ruins of Empire from the writing of Lucian, an ancient Greek historian
At one point in history, Ethiopians occupied parts of Africa and parts of asia--including India.--George Rawlinson,: On the Ethnic Affinities of the Races of Western Asia. In addition two ancient historians from Greece concurred: Strabo and Ephorus.
"A number of scholars, both ancient and modern, have come to the conclusion that the world's first civilization was created by a people known as Ethiopians."
"...{T}he first civilized inhabitants of ancient Egypt were members of what is referred to as the black race...{or}...Ethiopians."
--John Jackson: Introduction to African Civilization
Egyptians recognize they came from Nubia.--Chik Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilization
Friday, November 6, 2009
Egypt Revisited
I have come upon a book What They Never Told You in History Class by Indus Khamit Kush and I've identified a number of pages in the book that speak on Nubia. One of the sources is Egypt Revisited and I ordered it through the library system.
According to my email, it arrived today.
Now the Nubian Detective will begin the trek again...
According to my email, it arrived today.
Now the Nubian Detective will begin the trek again...
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