Origin of Ancient Egyptians

The Elif and Tine Island in the Nile marked the border between Egypt and Newbia, and was a place of great sanctity in ancient times. Among the travelers who came here were the earliest European historians, the Greeks, men like Herodotus, Lord Atas' he was in the Tassicle tradition which regarded the various races of the known world as different but equal. The Greeks knew Egypt well and firmly believed that the original Egyptians were black people who had come from the south to settle the land of the Nile. But who others himself got no further than this, he was prevented by the first cataract from traveling further south. And so he never saw the huge temple which ramassies the second to chose to build here at Abel Simble further south into inner Africa, than any other great monument built by the Pharaohs to celebrate their power. A few years ago with the immense ingenuity the entire structure was lifted to a new site, above the artificial lake which has drowned all the sites of the most ancient kingdoms that flourished here in Newbia, even before the first of the Pharaohs. But why should he have built this great temple so far to the south? Perhaps because his queen Nefertari was herself a newbion. And also because these were the people, the people of the south, whom he wanted to impress with evidence of the prisoners he'd taken, in far away Syria and Asia Minor. Even mighty temples like this one have to be seen against the background origins of ancient Egyptian civilization. And those origins in the light of modern science were above all African. No matter what ideas or customs the Pharaohs may have found in the ancient lands they conquered, Egypt's beginnings were in the south. In this inner Africa which the ancient Egyptians called the Land of the Gods of the African Gods, whom they lived as their guardian spirits. The time came when Egyptian conquests ended. Four hundred years later it was the turn of the kings of the south of Newbion, who now marched north to subdue the power of Egypt itself. And here is the most famous of those mighty kings of the south recognised by the peoples of that time, the 7th century BC, as among the masters of the world. This one, as it happens, received a favorable mention in the Bible in the Book of Kings, as the emperor of Kush and all Egypt whose name was Taharka. By 650 BC the newbion kings who had subdue Egypt were ready to withdraw to the south to no partar, and then to a new capital in their kingdom of Kush at Merley. And there we must follow them if we had to understand the history of this inner Africa which exercised so strong and early influence on ancient Egyptian civilization, and which later was to reflect that influence. The city of Merley was situated a thousand miles south of the old Egyptian frontier far into inner Africa. I never come here without a sense of wonder for right ahead in the midst of this pittalist desert, there stands one of Africa's great historical surprises. The remnants of a lost civilization standing across the skyline as though shipwrecked on the sands of time. These are the pyramid tombs of the kings and queens of Merley who reigned and were buried here through molten six centuries. Long ruined by tomb robbers and by time the pyramids are being restored and even reconstructed. The most important thing is that the monarchs of Kush built their pyramids to long after such monuments had ceased to be raised in Egypt. Partly because the pyramids of Merley are neither as old nor as massive as those of Egypt. It's been assumed that all this was a mere provincial copy of that greater civilization. The infracted was found more than a copy. The similarities are there, but other aspects of Meritic culture are found nowhere else. Another intriguing question is the relationship between the ancient people of Merley, kings, queens and citizens and the modern Newbians who live in this region today. We can still see their stylized portraits in stone, but what did they really look like? I asked Dr. Ali Osman of the University of Cartoon. I was very lucky. I am a newbie. I am very much the newbie of the other university. We could understand that the crefly because the newbie and culture actually have not been very much explored. The newbie and from the end, either newbie or I do and how I behave, wouldn't have changed that much from the newbie. But the influence that has come on us at Newbians, starting early as we could say the efficient coming down to the Muslim Arab influence, have been changing. That does not mean that the newbie has changed. But this identity has had to survive many foreign incursions and even conquests. At one time, Merley fell before the invading armies of Exum, another ancient kingdom high in the mountains of what is now Ethiopia. In more recent times, the Turks and the British have sent in their armies of occupation. Most lasting of all has been the influence of Islam. But through all these changes, the newbians have done more than retain their identity. Just as they absorbed influences from elsewhere, so they too have had a deep cultural impact on their neighbours. They build now as they always build. In all probability, just as the people of Merley built, with an old effort saving rhythm, obstructing mud walls to defy the scorching heat of the newbie and sana. They are beds are no different from those of their ancient ancestors, like this one in Cartoon Museum, with a pattern of headrest, which is much the same here and right across Africa as those of 5,000 years ago. And the traditional clan marks cut into this newbians face can be seen exactly reproduced on a stone relief, which decorates one of the pyramids just a couple miles away. It's been said that Merley was the Birmingham of Ancient Africa, and that wasn't altogether a flight of fancy. For the people of Merley had a very extensive iron making industry. Just consider this enormous pile of industrial waste of slag. It pulls that among the major activities of the people of the slurishing city was the Smoot Iron. And here, the end of the world.