The Origin of Egyptian Civilization: Part 2

Ferd by Africa's greatest lake, the Nile runs north for over 4,000 vials before reaching its outflow in the Mediterranean Sea. It's the longest river on Earth, and no river anywhere push it on so relentlessly through mile after mile of past and rainless desert regions by all tumbling down from the mountain plateau of Ethiopia. But the Nile is more than a great river. It's a whole library of the history we're looking for. From the earliest times of human settled and along the river, some 10,000 years ago, the Nile was the giver of life to ancient communities who came to its banks, and found on Ferdile soil that was enriched unfailingly, year by year, by the flood of silt. Those early people were among the ancestors of the Egyptians and the Sudanese of today. Others may have come from the Middle East, but the archaeological evidence combines to show that the main lines of incoming migration were from the southwest and the west. In other words, from the African communities of the Sahara. Five thousand years ago, this homeland had already become the scene of a civilisation in many ways unmatched anywhere else in the ancient world. This is where we have to begin in the Egypt of the Ferris, in the African land that was the gift of the God of the Nile. It's easy enough to believe within these corridors built to a gigantic scale and yet wonderfully proportioned that you've entered a world strong complete from the lap of the gods. The Egypt of the Ferris was the greatest and the oldest and the most inventive of all the high civilisations of antiquity. And it flourished for 3,000 years. It's set a pattern, an example, for people near and far. But where were its roots? Its origins? It's starting point. Most of us have believed or have been taught that the glorious of the Ferris could never have been created by African people or African ideas because it's been said Africans could never have built a high civilisation. Here range for dynasty after dynasty, the kings who wore the double crown, the combined crown of upper Egypt and of the delta. But what had they to do with Africa? How could this grand hierarchy of gods and spirits have anything in common with the superstitious mumblings of the black peoples of inner Africa? Wandering among the treasures of the Cairo Museum. It's easy to think of the Egypt of the Ferros as a civilisation complete within itself, owing little or nothing to outside influences from whatever source entirely its own creation. And I imagine that most visitors conclude as they listen to their guides, that the statues such as this of the young king Tutankham and may have turned very black in the course of centuries but could not have been a black man in the first place. It's a view which is now increasingly under challenge, not least from African historians and archaeologists. One of the more I'd spoken of these is Professor Shake and the upper Senegal, who was made a special study of the origins of the people of ancient Egypt. Enить the t Heblo, you shall touch them, then, the pressing general, and trick them around exception. The only ones, far as I know, that so clearly makes the professor's point. For the most part, the ancient Egyptians had themselves portrayed as redish pink, but of course they intermarried with Asians, and even more with other Africans. Many of their noble ladies were Newbians and lovingly portrayed as such. This painting comes from the two of hemacad, clearly a black lady with a hand-made and behind her just as surely white. It followed that the royal children went often black as well, as was King's in Ostraith, seen here wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt. This narrow of unknown name, but obviously of high prestige in his time and just as clearly African.