First Writing

"First writing may have started under real-life 'Scorpion King" USA Today, APR 18, 2002--Database:
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"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."

Southern Egypt?

Isn't this also the homeland of what we would later call the Nubians? It is true no written work has ben found in the archeology of Nubia until a much later time--during the time the Nubians actually ruled Egypt--but can't it also be true given this is southern Egypt that Nubia had its hand in the play of the Scorpion King?

Other questions that need to be addressed. And then another:

In fact, three-four thousand years ago, were the borders so clear cut that we could state as a fact that this is Nubia and this is Egypt?