^^ Yeah mods, this dude has asked this about 40 times in various threads send this thick piece of wood the answer to his question in his mailbox because I'm not going to be, has nothing to do with the topic what, just drop by every few weeks? I guess that is the definition of a mod on Egyptsearch
also stupid thread titles in Kemet forum are allowed, for instance " Whites Pretend You Can’t Read Meroitic Script Of Nübia"
So now "Blacks pretend" etc etc, pick any "race" or "pretenders" is a valid thread title ? Out to lunch moderation, allowing this
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quote:Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] ^ There is a difference between the Greek word Mελανο (Melano)--black and Mέλι (Meli)-- honey.
I entered "μελάγχροες" into a Greek-to-Latin transliterator and I got "melankroes", so I see you are right.
The next step is to go into google books and type this
μελάγχροες -Herodotus
we already have seen the Herodotus usage of the word. Thus adding - (minus) next to Herodotus as above just the dash symbol will show the results excluding the many Herodotus' Colchis/Egyptian quote references (and I think he uses the word only this once)
However with the Herodotus results excluded there are many results of old books that come up with the word in other ancient Greek writing and these often have PDF format option So first you look at in "read" and note the page number, and instance of μελάγχροες then back out, go to the PDF where it can be copied and pasted and put the page into a translator
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quote:Originally posted by Archeopteryx: What does eventual human remains and aDNA say about the descendancy and phenotype of the Colchians? Have there been any aDNA studies? And what can be read from the DNA of todays inhabitants of the area?
Elmaestro might know. This paper does have some aDNA samples from the Bronze Age Caucasus, but none of them appear to be from the area of ancient Colchis (i.e. they are almost all north of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, whereas Colchis was to the southeast of those).
quote:Originally posted by Archeopteryx: What does eventual human remains and aDNA say about the descendancy and phenotype of the Colchians? Have there been any aDNA studies? And what can be read from the DNA of todays inhabitants of the area?
Herodotus, The Histories, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.
HERODOTUS p385 Book II: chapters 99‑182
104
For it is plain to see that the Colchians are Egyptians; and what I say, I myself noted before I heard it from others. When it occurred to me, I inquired of both peoples; and the Colchians remembered the Egyptians better than the Egyptians remembered the Colchians; [2] the Egyptians said that they considered the Colchians part of Sesostris' army. I myself guessed it, partly because they are dark-skinned and woolly-haired; though that indeed counts for nothing, since other peoples are, too; but my better proof was that the Colchians and Egyptians and Ethiopians are the only nations that have from the first practised circumcision. [3] The Phoenicians and the Syrians of Palestine acknowledge that they learned the custom from the Egyptians, and the Syrians of the valleys of the Thermodon and the Parthenius, as well as their neighbors the Macrones, say that they learned it lately from the Colchians. These are the only nations that circumcise, and it is seen that they do just as the Egyptians. [4] But as to the Egyptians and Ethiopians themselves, I cannot say which nation learned it from the other; for it is evidently a very ancient custom. That the others learned it through traffic with Egypt, I consider clearly proved by this: that Phoenicians who traffic with Hellas cease to imitate the Egyptians in this matter and do not circumcise their children.
Again, this part
quote:For it is plain to see that the Colchians are Egyptians; and what I say, I myself noted before I heard it from others. When it occurred to me, I inquired of both peoples; and the Colchians remembered the Egyptians better than the Egyptians remembered the Colchians;the Egyptians said that they considered the Colchians part of Sesostris' army.
So it was plain for him to see that the Colchians are Egyptians So he's claiming he says this, even before he heard it from others So he was up by the North West Black Sea and he sees Egyptians there?
-so he inquired to the Egyptians and the Colchians about this. The Egyptians didn't remember anything about it but the Colchians did However, the Egyptians said they considered the Colchians part of Sesostris' army.
Sounds like he was drunk when wrote this
There is a lot more on this page he says about the Egyptians, the above is chapter 104
so within these chapters Egypt/Egyptians is mentioned 185 times read the whole thing,
Stay on topic. First warning. And stop harassing members in different threads. I'm also entertaining moving this thread to the Deshret.
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