He lived during the rule of Thutmose IV, and received the honour of a burial in the royal necropolis…
His name can be translated as Lion of the Battlefield…
His black skin lead “scholars” to believe that he was an Egyptian of Nubian origin…
“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 like Maiherperi…
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