(Bottom) Troop of Egyptian lancers, from the Tomb of Prince Mesehti at Assyut, Middle Kingdom
This wooden model of 40 Nubian archers are grouped together on the same pedestal and arranged in 10 rows of four…
Each archer is holding in one hand a bow and in the other a bunch of arrows…
They are wearing red kilts with green designs and a flap of cloth in the center decorated with green geometrical designs…
The archers are all shown barefoot, with their left legs stretched forward so that they appear to be marching in unison with long strides…
The other group consists of forty Egyptian soldiers arranged in ten lines…
They are colored reddish brown (ruddy)
Each walking barefoot, wearing a short kilt, and carrying a pike and a cow-hide shield…
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Clearly these are one and the same people…
“The Tarifian, Badarian and Tasian cultures of Middle and Upper Egypt have strong ties with the Nubian/Nilotic pastoral tradition, as can be inferred, for instance, by the very similar pottery, economy and settlement pattern and by the latest findings in the deserts surrounding the Egyptian Nile valley” (Gatto 2011b, 2012a, b, 2013)
SOURCE;
(Prehistory and Protohistory of Ancient Civilizations; 2015)
In other words, Predynastic Ancient Egyptians (4500 B.C.— 3100 B.C.) are more closely related to Nubian / Nilotic peoples…
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