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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Rain King: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by AncientGebts: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb] Can we bring this back to the topic please [/qb][/QUOTE]Sure. Diffusion of ancient Egyptian culture. [IMG]http://files.ancientgebts.org/EgyptSearch/AncientEthiopianScript.png[/IMG] [b]Writing is Culture[/b] So-called, [i]Ancient South Arabian script[/i], which should actually be called [i]Ancient Ethiopian script[/i], since it was first found in today's Eritrea (formerly part of Ethiopia)... [b][i]Ancient South Arabian script[/i][/b] [b][i]"The Ancient South Arabian script... branched from the Proto-Sinaitic script in about the 9th century BCE."[/i][/b] [list] [*][b][i]"It was used for writing..."[/i][/b] [*][b][i]"Ethiopic language Ge'ez in Dʿmt"[/i][/b] [*][b][i]"Old South Arabian languages Sabaic"[/i][/b] [*][b][i]"Qatabanic"[/i][/b] [*][b][i]"Hadramautic"[/i][/b] [*][b][i]"Minaean"[/i][/b] [/list] [b][i]"The earliest inscriptions in the script date to the 9th century BCE in the Northern Red Sea Region, Eritrea."[/i][/b] Diodorus Siculus wrote that Ethiopians were the founders and rulers of ancient Egypt and that ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs were Ethiopian... [b][i]"They say also that the Egyptians are colonists sent out by the Ethiopians, Osiris having been the leader of the colony. And the larger part of the customs of the Egyptians are, they hold, Ethiopian, the colonists still preserving their ancient manners."[/i][/b] Diodorus, book 3, 3:1 https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/3A*.html [b][i]"… the shapes of their statues and the forms of their letters are Ethiopian; for of the two kinds of writing which the Egyptians have, that which is known as "popular" (demotic) is learned by everyone, while that which is called "sacred" is understood only by the priests of the Egyptians, who learn it from their fathers as one of the things which are not divulged, but among the Ethiopians everyone uses these forms of letters… the Ethiopian writing which is called hieroglyphic among the Egyptians."[/i][/b] Diodorus, book 3, 3:4-5, 4:1 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/3A*.html So, it makes sense that towards the end of the ancient Egyptian civilization, a form of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing was discovered in Ethiopia. What other African culture has a direct form of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing? And for anybody who wants to claim that [i]all of Africa was considered Ethiopia," if that is so true, why then wasn't Egypt considered Ethiopia? Diodorus makes clear where the Ethiopia he was referring to was... [b][i]"The Nile flows from south to north. It is the largest of all rivers as well as the one which traverses the greatest territory, it forms great windings. from the mountains of Ethiopia.."[/i][/b] Diodorus, book 1, 32:1-2 https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/1B*.html Nearly 85% of all the water that flows to Egypt begins in Ethiopia, making Ethiopia the source of the Nile. [/qb][/QUOTE]The thing about this Greek Quotes about "Ethiopia" is that they are not talking about the modern country of Ethiopia, but instead the vast region of Africa south of Kemet. The Atlantic ocean was called the "Ethiopian Ocean". Let's not equate the modern name of less than a century in age of "Ethiopia" strictly with the former nation of Abyssinia. Also let's not make the assumption that modern Northeast African populations south of Kemet are identical to the populations in that region 2,500 years ago. "In contrast, Irish and Turner (1990) and Irish (2000, 2005) noted that [b]Pleistocene Nubians (in particular those of Jebel Sahaba skeletons) were as a group quite different from recent Nubians for dental discreet traits[/b] [b]yet shared great phenetic affinity with recent West African populations.[/b] " -- T.W. Holiday 2013 ("Population Affinities of the Jebel Sahaba Skeletal Sample")​ [/QB][/QUOTE]
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