PREFACE:
This blog entry is to uncover the proto-origin of KMT which many western historians seem to shy away from. European historians such as Robert Bauval, Drusilla Dunjee Houston, or African anthropologist Chiekh Anta Diop, and archaeologist Yosef Ben-Jochannan have been shunned and deemed as Afro-centrist regardless if the facts holds strong evidence in antiquity court of law.
Moreover, I will be detailing historical quotes by scholars of the great age, and documentation by the Egyptians themselves along with DNA results. Simply put, East Africans (modern day Ethiopians, Eritreans, Somalis,Sudanese) are the prime descendants of the Ancient Egyptians.
East africans migrated to North Africa and establish the Ancient Egyptian civilization. How do we know this??
WHAT DID THE EGYPTIANS SAY ABOUT THEIR ORIGINS?
- "We came from the beginning of the Nile were God Hapi dwells, at the foothills of the Mountains of the Moon."
My comment: Beginning of the nile starts from Uganda, and flows through Ethiopia, and on towards to Sudan to Egypt.
Greek scholars who encountered the ancient Egyptians ,i.e., Herotodus, Diodorus, and Aristotle make references that the Egyptian civilization was established by the descendants of Ethiopians migrating to the North.
Note: The term "Ethiopia" is greek for the "Land of the burnt faces" or Ethio/Aethio = Burnt Face. In ancient times all of inner and central Africa was considered Ethiopia.. This is not making specific reference to the modern day country "Ethiopia" or modern day "Ethiopians" specifically... But all of Inner Africa below North Africa.
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Eye-witness descriptions of the Egyptians origins and features:
- "Thirdly, it is certain that the natives of the country are black with heat. "
- The Aethiopians(Ethiopians) are high favored with the gods, they were the first of all men created by the gods and were the founders of the Egyptian Civilization.
- 'In "The Making of Egypt" (1939). Petrie states that the Land of Punt was "sacred to the Egyptians as the source of their race" : The Egyptians sometimes called Punt land Ta-Netjeru, meaning "Land of the Gods," and considered it their place of origin."
- "The representations of the early Puntites, or Somali people, on the Egyptian monuments, show striking resemblances to the Egyptians themselves."
My Comment: According to above source by James Breasted. The most logical reason of the ancient Egyptians and Puntites (Somalis) Are drawn very similar on the walls of Egypt with dark brown reddish skin, the ancient Egyptians corresponded to the Land of Punt (Now Somalia & Dijibouti) as their ancestors, recognizing they were of the same stock of people..
Image of the ancient Puntites (Ancestor of Modern Somalians) below
The Queen and Female Pharaoh of Egypt sent a trade expedition to the Land of Punt , the Ancient kingdom of the Somalis , in the 15th century B-C. The Famous French Egyptologist Christiane D.Noblecourt , in her book "Hatshepsout ,the Mysterious Queen" said that the Ancient-Egyptians and The Puntites used to speak and communicate with the same language .
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- "Those who are too black are cowards, like for instance, the Egyptians and Ethiopians. But those who are excessively white are also cowards."
- "We find there Egyptians and Africans represented in the same way, which could not be otherwise."
- "The men of Egypt are mostly brown or black with a skinny desiccated look."
- Many things show the connect between Egypt and this part of Africa. The same glass beads are found in Uganda and Upper Egypt, and similar canoes are built. Harps and other instruments bear great resemblance. Finally the Bahima, as the Galla invaders are called are startlingly Egyptian in type, at the same time that are undoubtedly Negro. Perhaps we have here the best racial picture of what ancient Egyptian and upper Nile regions were in predynastic times and later.
- The major features of cultural and political development that led to dynastic Egypt originated in southern Egypt during what is called the predynastic period. Some evidence suggests that predynastic Egyptian and early Nubian cultures had ties to the early Saharan cultures and shared a Saharo-Nilotic heritage. Perhaps the earliest predynastic culture, the Badarian-Tasian* (4400 B.C. or earlier, to 4000 B.C.), had the clearest ties to Saharan cultures in the desert west of Nubia.
DIODORUS SICULUS (90BC-30BC) ON EAST AFRICA MIGRATION TO ESTABLISH ANCIENT EGPYT CIVILIZATION :
They say also that the Egyptians are colonist sent out by the Ethiopians, Osiris having been the leader of the colony. For, speaking generally, what is now Egypt, they maintain, was not land but sea when in the beginning the universe was being formed; afterwards, however, as the Nile during the times of its inundation carried down the mud from Ethiopia, land was gradually built up from the deposit. Also the statement that all the land of the Egyptians is alluvial silt deposited by the river receives the clearest proof, in their opinion, from what takes place at the outlets of the Nile; for as each year new mud is continually gathered together at the mouths of the river, the sea is observed being thrust back by the deposited silt and the land receiving the increase. And the larger part of the customs of the Egyptian are, they hold, Ethiopian, the colonist still preserving their ancient manners. For instance, the belief that their kings are gods, the very special attention which they pay to their burials,. And the larger and many other matters of a similar nature are Ethiopian practices, while the shapes of their statues and the forms of their letters are Ethiopians; for of the two kinds of writing which the Egyptians have, that which is known as "popular" (demotic) is learned by everyone, while that which is called "sacred" is understood only by the priests of the Egyptians, who learn it from their fathers as one of the things which are not divulged, but among the Ethiopians everyone uses these forms of letters. Furthermore, the orders of the priests, they maintain, have much the same position among both peoples; for all are clean who are engaged in the service of the gods, keeping themselves shaven, like the Ethiopian priests, and having the same dress and form of staff, which is shaped like a plough and is carried by their kings, who wear high felt hats which end in a knob at the top and are circled by the serpents which they call asps; and this symbol appears to carry the thought that it will be the lot of those who shall dare to attack the king to encounter death-carrying stings. Many other things are also told by them concerning their own antiquity and the colony which they sent out that became the Egyptians, but about this there is no special need of our writing anything.
We must now speak about the Ethiopian writing which is called hieroglyphic among the Egyptians, in order that we may omit nothing in our discussion of their antiquities. Now it is found that the forms of their letters take the shape of animals of every kind, and of the members of the human body, and of implements and especially carpenters' tools; for their writing does not express the intended concept by means of syllables joined one to another, but by means of the significance of the objects which have been copied and by its figurative meaning which has been impressed upon the memory by practice.
For instance, they draw the picture of a hawk, a crocodile, a snake, and of the members of the human body—an eye, a hand, a face, and the like. Now the hawk signifies to them everything which happens swiftly, since this animal is practically the swiftest of winged creatures. And the concept portrayed is then transferred, by the appropriate metaphorical transfer, to all swift things and to everything to which swiftness is appropriate, very much as if they had been named. And the crocodile is a symbol of all that is evil, and the eye is the warder of justice and the guardian of the entire body. And as for the members of the body, the right hand with fingers extended signifies a procuring of livelihood, and the left with the fingers closed, a keeping and guarding of property. The same way of reasoning applies also to the remaining characters, which represent parts of the body and implements and all other things; for by paying close attention to the significance which is inherent in each object and by training their minds through drill and exercise of the memory over a long period, they read from habit everything which has been written.
For instance, they draw the picture of a hawk, a crocodile, a snake, and of the members of the human body—an eye, a hand, a face, and the like. Now the hawk signifies to them everything which happens swiftly, since this animal is practically the swiftest of winged creatures. And the concept portrayed is then transferred, by the appropriate metaphorical transfer, to all swift things and to everything to which swiftness is appropriate, very much as if they had been named. And the crocodile is a symbol of all that is evil, and the eye is the warder of justice and the guardian of the entire body. And as for the members of the body, the right hand with fingers extended signifies a procuring of livelihood, and the left with the fingers closed, a keeping and guarding of property. The same way of reasoning applies also to the remaining characters, which represent parts of the body and implements and all other things; for by paying close attention to the significance which is inherent in each object and by training their minds through drill and exercise of the memory over a long period, they read from habit everything which has been written.
These, then, are the customs which prevail among the Ethiopians who dwell in their capital (Napata) and those who inhabit both the island of Meroe and the land adjoining Egypt.
-Source: (Richard Pankhurst, The Ethiopian Borderlands:1997 Diodorus Siclus, The Library of History, Books ;;.35-IV.58, Translated by C.H. Oldfather, Harvard Unveristy Press,2000)
Modern East African Tribes such as the Oromo, Beja, Afar, Amahara, still carry on the culture of African braiding, Sidelock, and traditional wear that resembles Ancient Egyptian culture & wear:
Modern East African Women resembling the Ancient Egyptian culture (hair braiding) and skin tone/color:
Modern East African MEN resembling the Ancient Egyptian culture hair and skin tone/color:
Ancient Egyptian Men used Animal fat to get the smooth tight curls.
Many East African Men & women still use Animal Fat on their hair to this day!
Source: Animal fat hair gel http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110819/full/news.2011.487.html
Greco-Roman Copts Comparsion (Byzantine era)
What scholars say about the origin of the Copts
The Copt samples displayed a most interesting Y-profile, enough (as much as that of Gaalien in Sudan) to suggest that the peopling of Egypt significant frequency of B-M60 in this group might be a relic of a history of Colonization of the predecessors of Egypt.
Source: ( Hisham Y. Hassan 1, Peter A. Underhill 2, Luca L. Cavalli Sforza 2, Muntaser E. Ibrahim 1. (2008). Y-Chromosome variation among Sudanese: Restricted gene flow, concordance with language geography, and history. Am J Phys Anthropology, 2008. Volume 137 issue 3, Pages 316-323
DNA EVIDENCE POINTS ANCIENT EGYPT TOWARDS EAST AFRICA/KUSHITE ORIGIN:
The Thuya Gene:
One of the autosomal ancestry markers prominent in the Royal Egyptian families of the New Kingdom, this not-so-rare gene is Central African in origin and was passed to Thuya from her forebears, Queens of Upper and Lower Egypt and High Priestesses of Hathor, the Mother Goddess. Thuya passed it to her grandson Akhenaten and great-grandson Tutankhamun, among others, as documented in a forensic study of the Amarna mummies by Zahi Hawass, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Cairo, in 2010. Today, its highest incidence is in Somalians at nearly 50%. It is found in 40% of Muslim Egyptians. On average, 1 in 3 Africans or African Americans carries it. It crops up in high concentrations in many places around the world such as the Basque region (41%) and in Melungeons (31%, similar to Middle Easterners), but is present at only low levels in East and South Asia, as well as Native America. Its lowest frequency is in the Chukchi of Siberia (3%).
-Source: (The Thuya Gene." Genetics. DNA Consultants, 12 June 2012. Web.)
The King Tut Gene:
Tutankhamun (also spelled Tutenkhamen) is the most famous of all pharaohs. He was the son and successor of Akhenaten, grandson of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye and great-grandson of the royal matriarch Queen Thuya. Archeologist Howard Carter’s opening of his intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922 ranks among the most splendid discoveries of history. In 2010, genetic fingerprinting of his mummy determined that he died at the early age of 19 as the result of violence or an accident to which the incestuous relationship of his parents and several genetic defects contributed. Tutankhamun actually carries a “double dose” of the allele named for him. Like most of the other genes in the family, it is Central African in ancient origin, but unlike the other markers it has a sparse distribution outside Africa with a worldwide average frequency of 4%. Still, Africans and African-influenced populations (1 in about 10) are about twice or three times as likely to have it as non-Africans.
Source: (Hawass Z, Gad YZ, Ismail S, et al. Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun's Family. JAMA. 2010;303(7):638-647.)
Ramses: Gene
This month’s article features a geographical analysis of autosomal DNA from two ancient
Pentawer), who lived more than 3,000 years ago during the 20th Dynasty of Egypt (during the
Bronze-Iron Age transition).
royal mummies from the Amarna Period. In this issue, results indicate that the later pharaoh
Ramesses III also inherited alleles that are most frequent in present day populations of Sub-Saharan Africa. This provides additional, independent evidence of Sub-Saharan African
ancestry (possibly among several ancestral components) for pharaonic families of ancient Egypt.
-Source: (Ramesses III and African Ancestry in the 20th Dynasty of New Kingdom Egypt." Geographical Analysis of Ramesses III. DNA Tribes, 1 Feb. 2013. Web.) http://dnatribes.com/dnatribes-digest-2013-02-01.pdf
Genetic Analysis of Amarna Mummies:
Geographical analysis of the Amarna mummies was performed using their autosomal STR
profiles based on 8 tested loci.4 Results are summarized in Table 1 and illustrated in Figure 1. Maps for
individual Amarna mummies are included in Figures 2-8 in the Appendix.
Discussion: Average MLI scores in Table 1 indicate the STR profiles of the Amarna mummies would be
most frequent in present day populations of several African regions: including the Southern African
(average MLI 326.94), African Great Lakes (average MLI 323.76), and Tropical West African (average
MLI 83.74) regions.
These regional matches do not necessarily indicate an exclusively African ancestry for the
Amarna pharaonic family. However, results indicate these ancient individuals inherited some alleles that
today are more frequent in populations of Africa than in other parts of the world (such as D18S51=19 and
D21S11=34).
-Source:(Last of the Amarna Pharaohs: King Tut and His Relatives." Genetic Analysis of Amarna Mummies. DNA Tribes, 1 Jan. 2012.) http://dnatribes.com/dnatribes-digest-2012-01-01.pdf
