Sunday, December 6, 2009

NUBIA STARTED IT ALL

I'm going to quote from the book, EGYPT REVISITED:

"Origin of Egypt:

"Apart from the question of Egypt's chronology, there remains the intriguing question as to who were the Egyptians and from where did they originate? In reviewing Egypt's beginnings, we find an advanced civilization already intact from the earliest Dynasty. The fact has perplexed historians down through the ages. Common sense dictates tha if Egypt began fully mature, then it's civilization must have originated elsewhere. 'We find when we discover Egypt in what we call the first Dynasty, under Menes, that it is at its absolute zenith of culture in painting, sculpture, architecture...It is very much as if th Egyptians found themselves the inheritors of a great ready-made culture of which they could take advantage...but which they themselves did not create' (Jalandris. THE HALLS OF RECORDS, p. 4)."

In 1962, before the rise of flood waters, Keith C. Steele who was then the director of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago "...found the birthplace of a pharaonic-centered civilization several generations older than the first historic Egyptian dynasty. There, in Qustul, Nubia, prehistory was transformed...{Steele's} discovery, along with nformation excavated from tombs, proved that Egyptian civilization and culture had not only originated in the south, but that in some remote period of antiquity the inhabitants of Egypt and Nubia were one and the same."

Abbe Emile Amelineau cites other evidence. his excavations show: "These Anu were agricultural people, raising cattle on a large scale along the Nile, shutting themselves up in walled cities for defensive purposes. To this people we can attribute...the most ancient Egyptian books {including} THE BOOK OF THE DEAD and the TEXT OF THE PYRAMIDS...They knew how to use metals. They made the earliest attempts at writing..." (Abbe Emile Amelineau. NOUVELLS FOUILLES d'ABYDOS, 1899, p. 248.

The above three paragraphs come from pages 121 to 125 in EGYPT REVISITED.

3 comments:

  1. Have you looked at:
    OIMP 24. Lost Nubia: A Centennial Exhibit of Photographs from the 1905-1907 Egyptian Expedition of the University of Chicago. 2006.
    Downloadable at
    http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/oimp/oimp24.html

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  2. Charles--Thanks. I'm going to order the book.

    Michael Brownstein

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  3. Charles--Glad you commented. I've subscribed to the Oriental Institute's newsletter. Could use some help researching--if you know of anything could you please help?

    Thanks.

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