In 2023, Christopher Ehret reported that the physical anthropological findings from the “major burial sites of those founding locales of ancient Egypt in the fourth millennium BCE, notably El-Badari as well as Naqada, show no demographic indebtedness to the Levant”. Ehret specified that these studies revealed cranial and dental affinities with "closest parallels" to other longtime populations in the surrounding areas of Northeastern Africa “such as Nubia and the northern Horn of Africa”.
Ehret, Christopher (20 June 2023). Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 83–85.
Lecture on the African origins of Ancient Egypt:
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EARLY PEOPLING OF THE NILE VALLEY
“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:
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. Upper Egypt was the home of Pharaonic Kingship and the political and spitiural centers of the nation. Ta-Seti was a Nubian Provence and first nome of ancient Egypt.
The Delta or Mediterranean region was the last nome to be integrated into the Wasetian (Theban) Kingdom of the South and was the doorway to the Levant and near East. Lower Egypt fell under the dominion of Upper Egypt and over the centuries the immigration of Asiatics altered the genetic pool in Lower Egypt and in cities like Avaris, native Africans became outnumbered by Asiatic immigrants. This steady gene flow of Asiatics into the Delta region would eventually lead to the Asiatic Invasion and the 1st intermediate period of Egypt which is known as one of the three dark ages in Nile Valley history.
Amharic is an Ethiopian language, which is in the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amharas, and also serves as a lingua franca for all other populations residing in major cities and towns in Ethiopia. Amharic is written left-to-right using a system that grew out of the Geʽez script. This language and text has an intimate connection with the ancient Kemetic Language and Medu Neter. Watch the linguistic break down below.
"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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