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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Archeopteryx: [qb] Nora seems ambitious. Soon she will have an Egyptologist as a guest in an upcoming video [QUOTE] EXCITING NEWSS my fellow history geeks😍😍 I am going to be having Egyptologist and book author Dr. Mariam Ayad on the Kemet Queen show 🥰 The topic will be Women in Ancient Egypt. We are going to discuss everything from women’s roles in society, women’s rights, to the lives and reign of well known Egyptian Queens👸🏻👸🏽 As always we’re gonna have a Q&A part at the end of the episode so please drop your questions below 👇🏽 [/QUOTE][URL=https://www.youtube.com/@itsnouryy/community]EXCITING NEWS[/URL] [IMG]https://i.ibb.co/DGhyg3N/Dr-Mariam-Ayad.jpg[/IMG] [i]Dr. Mariam Ayad [/i] [/qb][/QUOTE]Dr Ayad got her degree from in Egyptology from the American University of Cairo, founded by American Presbyterian Missionaries in 1920. She has also been on American historical documentaries about the ancient Nile such as this one and often seems to focus on womens history on the Nile. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmJzKXIto3c Another video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBnRLQHchi0 And in this last video she says the following at the [URL=https://youtu.be/bBnRLQHchi0?t=3827] 1:03:50[/URL] mark: [QUOTE][b] In terms of contemporary Egyptians, contemporary Egyptians for the most part, are quite divorced from their past. They don't view themselves so much as descendants of the pharaohs unless there's a soccer match and they want to ramp up the national furor. But generally speaking, I've had a mentor, currently a colleague at the AUC, whose work has really focused on cultural idiom, whether its in religious practice, or in the vernacular of Egyptian Arabic. And she's ingrained in me, and in her own work, the importance of doing ethno-Egyptology and the success she's had there. So I've tried to apply some of it, like if there's a turn of phrase that is especially cumbersome to render in English, then if I think of it in colloquial Egyptian, then it makes sense and I can provide an intimate translation occasionally. There's also, according to her work, some religious practices that have to do with having a meal at the tombs, with the deceased, on feast days, that are still practiced. Certain phrases that are said today in commemoration of the departed that we can show are direct descendants of tomb decoration, like the <garbled> at the top of the tomb is something that's often referred to. and she's been able to demonstrate that these are essentially Egyptian and not-- because, you know, Egypt had a lot of cultures and it's been a long time since then. But in these two instances or more, that was very clearly demonstrated. But aside from that, Egyptians are totally decoupled from their past, to the extent that they can desecrate and loot monuments. And they think that these monuments belong to the tourists. There's no sense of national ownership of that culture. And its sad and breaks our hearts. And that's partly why I moved back Ann, to circle back to your question, because one of my colleagues Monica Hanna, has been very vocal about the importance of cultural preservation. And shes's a very courageous woman, and did tremendous work combating looting and shedding light on the state of looting since 2011. And I thought, you know, I'm here in a comfortable job, tenured in Memphis (Tennessee), but essentially isolated from all the action. And in the ferver post-2011, I thought maybe the most revolutionary thing I can do is move back and be the best scholar I can be, where I may be more needed. But it turns out I'm still in an ivory tower at AUC. It's quite isolated. But outside of school and the limited number of students that we have, I may be able to support colleagues who are in the field there. [/b][/QUOTE]As for remains from Nazlet Kater, they date from u upwards of 25,000 years prior to the emergence of Nile Valley civilization. And some of them posses "archaic features, which only are important in the overall understanding of the evolution of human physiognomy over time in the Nile Valley and overall. [QUOTE] Nazlet Khater[1] is an archeological site located in Upper Egypt that has yielded evidence of early human culture and anatomically modern specimens dating to approximately thirty to fifty thousand years ago. Excavations at the Nazlet Khater 2 site (Boulder Hill) yielded the remains of two human skeletons in 1980.[2] One of the skulls was that of a male subadult. The cranium was generally modern in form, but with a very wide face, and it evinced some archaic traits in the temple and mandible areas. Below the skull, the skeleton was robust, but otherwise, anatomically modern. Morphological analysis of the Nazlet Khater mandible indicates that the specimen was distinct from the examined Late Pleistocene and Holocene North African specimens.[3] Ron Pinhasi and Patrick Semal (2000) found strong Stone Age Sub-Saharan affinities in the 33,000 year old skeleton from Nazlet Khater, Upper Egypt as the authors noted "The morphometric affinities of the 33,000 year old skeleton from Nazlet Khater, Upper Egypt are examined using multivariate statistical procedures. The results indicate a strong association between some of the sub-Saharan Middle Stone Age (MSA) specimens, and the Nazlet Khater mandible , which are different from modern sub saharan africans. Furthermore, the results suggest that variability between African populations during the Neolithic and Protohistoric periods was more pronounced than the range of variability observed among recent African and Levantine populations."[4] The Nazlet Khater 2 skeleton possesses two plesiomorphic features in its mandible, which are not found among coeval, anatomically modern, humans. This suggests that the ancestors of the specimen may have interbred with neighboring late archaic humans.[5] At Nazlet Khater 4 to the southeast, Upper Paleolithic axes, blades, burins, end scrapers, and denticulates were also excavated. The site has been radiocarbon dated to between 30,360 and 35,100 years ago.[3] The similarities between NK2 and Upper Paleolithic European samples may indicate a close relationship between this Nile Valley specimen and European Upper Paleolithic modern humans.[/QUOTE] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazlet_Khater [/QB][/QUOTE]
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