Narmer known as Menes to the Greeks is considered to be the first Pharaoh of Kemet (Ancient Egypt). Dishonest academics claim 3100 BCE as the emergence of Kemet as a nationstate. However this is false. A falsified version of history political motivated and perpetuated by both early racist Egyptologist and the Arab Republic of Egypt. Contrary to popular belief Narmer was not the first Pharaonic King in the Nile Valley. He was merely the first Pharaonic King to conquer the Delta region and absorb Asiatics into the Southern Kingdom of Ta-Shemau "the Land of Reeds” now referred to as Upper Egypt.
Tjenu, known as Thinis to modern Egyptians was the birthplace of Narmer and remains undiscovered, yet is well attested by ancient writers, including the classical historian Manetho, who cites it as the center of the Thinite Confederacy, a tribal confederation whose leader, Narmer (or Menes), united Kemet and was its first pharaoh. After coming from the south and marching North to the Delta to unite the two lands, Lower Kemet (ancient Egypt) would become a major hub for trade and commerce for the Southern Monarchs as the Delta was a strategic region which allowed the Pharaonic Kings of Upper Kemet to control the flow of African goods such as gold, ivory, ebony, spices and incense, into the near East and Mediterranean world. The Delta become a doorway into the Levant and Mediterranean world and by absorbing this region into their Southernly Kingdom the Africans of Upper Kemet now controlled trade and commerce between Africa, Europe and Asia. Ta-Seti, a Nubian Provence was the first Nome of ancient Kemet in a historical region responsible for the culture of Pharnoic Kingship. This region was the home of Black Africans and remain that to this day. It is over 1000 km from the Mediterranean Sea. The Delta was the last Nome and last region to be absorbed into the African civilization of Kemet and the women were accepted as citizens while the men that survived would have been were expelled from the nation.
In 1980, archeologist Bruce Williams conducted an excavation titled “The Lost Pharaohs of Nubia,” arguing that the Egyptian pharaonic monarchy was situated in Nubia, rather than in Egypt during the times of the A-group (3800-3400 BC). He based his discoveries at the Qustul cemetery on three archaeological finds: the size of the tombs, their plethora of contents, and royal iconography dwarfed any finds in Egypt at the time. Bruce Williams asserted the strong possibility that Egypt’s founding dynasty originated near Qustul and that the unification was accomplished from Nubia.
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“The process of the peopling of the Nile Valley likely the population structure and early biological similarity of Egyptians and Nubians…In 2005, Keita proffered a novel method to view Nubian-Egyptian relationships; he suggested that military interactions could not alone account for the biological similarities among the two populations. Rather, Keita (2005) saw the relationship as a continuum, dating back to the late Pleistocene and mid-Holocene, placing importance on the peopling of the Nile Valley as the initial cause for genetic similarity…The long history of contact between Egypt and Nubia is documented in the archaeological record…The extensive contact has led to detectable genetic and therefore skeletal and dental similarities among the two populations…For example, a closer affinity has been detected of the wealthy Nubian A-Group to elite Egyptians than elite Egyptians were to other Egyptians (Prowse and Lovell, 1996).
A new analysis interpreting Nilotic relationships and peopling of the Nile Valley:
Read that again “For example, a closer affinity has been detected of the wealthy Nubian A-Group to elite Egyptians than elite Egyptians were to other Egyptians”
In Layman's terms, in times of antiquity there was little to no genetic difference between Nubians and Upper Egyptians, and the Nubian A-Group shared more genetic affinity with the early Upper Egyptian Elite than the Upper Egyptian Elite shared with Lower Egypt. The difference in genetic make up of Lower Egypt is due to genetic flow from the Levant via the Delta.
When Narmer came from the South he conquered the Delta region uniting Lower and Upper Kemet. Upper Kemet would continue to serve as the political, spiritual and power center of the nation. Lower Kemet in these times was inhospitable and the Delta was but a wet marshland. But centuries earlier in the seasonally dry channels between the Forth and Second Cataract, early African farmers learned to manage parts of the river's annual flood. These farming techniques are directly connected to the Napta Stone Circle located in modern day Sudan and the tracking of the procession of the equinox. This ancient knowledge would be transferred into Kemet's wide floodplain, giving rise to the early Naqada civilization in Upper Kemet.
The Kemetyu through their relationship and cultural fusion with the Nehesy (Nubians) used the thousands of years of accumulated knowledge to accurately predict the flood season and transform the wet marshlands of the Delta into the world's most fertile farmland. They would also use this knowledge to build the Great Pyramids. Their mastery of sacred geometry allowed them to align the Great Pyramid nearly perfectly along the cardinal points, North, East, South and West, within one fifteenth of a degree of true north. Although each was their own nation with its own identity, Ta-Meri , Ta- Netjer, And Ta-Seti were connected, culturally, commercially, and spiritually. The cultural exchange between these three Nile Valley civilizations was fluid. The emergence of Kemet was an evolution of African science, philosophy and agriculture which seeded the very foundations of civilization.
Project Muse, Genetic Make Up of early Nile Valley Africans:
"Interactions between Nubia and Egypt (and the Sahara as well) occurred in the period between 4000 and 3000 BCE (the predynastic). There is evidence for sharing of some cultural traits between Sudan and Egypt in the neolithic (Kroeper 1996). Some items of “material” culture were also shared in the phase called Naqada I between the Nubian A- Group and upper Egypt (~3900-3650 BCE). There is good evidence for a zone of cultural overlap versus an absolute boundary (Wilkinson 1999 after Hoffman 1982, and citing evidence from Needler 1984 and Adams 1996). Hoffman (1982) noted cattle burials in Hierakonpolis, the most important of predynastic upper Egyptian cities in the later predynastic. This custom might reflect Nubian cultural impact, a common cultural background, or the presence of Nubians. There was some shared iconography in the kingdoms that emerged in Nubia and upper Egypt around 3300 BCE (Williams 1986). Although disputed, there is evidence that Nubia may have even militarily engaged upper Egypt before Dynasty I, and contributed leadership in the unification of Egypt (Williams 1986).
Dynasty I brought the political conquest (and cultural extirpation?) of the A-Group Nubian kingdom Ta Seti by (ca. 3000 BC) Egyptian kings (Wilkinson 1999). Lower Nubia seems to have become largely “depopu- lated,” based on archeological evidence, but this more likely means that Nubians were partially bioculturally assimilated into southern Egypt. Lower Nubia had a much smaller population than Egypt, which is important to consider in writing of the historical biology of the population. It is important to note that Ta Seti (or Ta Sti, Ta Sety) was the name of the southernmost nome (district) of upper Egypt recorded in later times (Gar- diner 1961), which perhaps indicates that the older Nubia was not forgotten/obliterated to historical memory.”
Project Muse: Genetics, Egypt, and History-Interpreting Geographical Patterns of Y Chromosome Variation:
"King of Upper Kemet…Beautiful is the Ka-Soul of Ra who appears in Waset"
"I have not spoken angrily or arrogantly. I have not cursed anyone in thought, word or deeds." ~35th & 36th Principals of Ma'at
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