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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [QB] The Mesopotamians applied the term Meluhha to ancient Kush and Punt, the countries below and east of Egypt according to Samuel Noah Kramer, in The Sumerians ( University of Chicago Press, 1963, pp.276-285). The Akkadians, according to Kramer said that Meluhha was “the place of the black men” (see p.277) . Since the Sumerians were called the “black headed” people, the reference to Meluhha as the land of the black man probably refers to Kush-Punt as the original homeland of the Sumerians. [b] Naram-sin traded with Meluhha[/b] [IMG]http://www.scholarsresource.com/images/thumbnails/192/j/jii0659.jpg[/IMG] The first mention of the Meluhha in Egyptian texts were written during the rule of Ramses II letter to the Hittites (KUB III 52) where he mentions that he was sending men of Meluhha to the Hittite royal court. During this period and later periods Meluhha=Kashi (Kush). [b] Assurbanipal[/b] [IMG]http://www.livius.org/a/1/mesopotamia/assurbanipal.jpg[/IMG] In many text written by Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal the terms Kashi and Meluhha were interchange repeatedly (see: W.F. Albright, “Magan,Meluha and the synchronism between Menes and Naram-Sim, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, vol.7, pp.80-87). The Assyrians frequently referred to the Meluhha as salmuti ‘black’. The Meluhhaites according to the inscriptions of Sargon II (c. 712 BC) mention the “bowmen, chariots and horses of the king of Meluhha”, together with the Egyptians fought the Assyrians in Palestine. Later the Assyrian king Assurbanipal of Assyria, noted in his inscriptions that he “ marched against Magan (Egypt) and Meluhha (Kush) in order to defeat the armies of Tarku (Taharqa), king of Egypt and Kush (D. Potts, “The road to Meluhha”, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 41(4) (1982) pp.279-288). [b] Meluhhaite Warriors in the Egyptian Army[/b] [IMG]http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Bay/7051/image006.jpg[/IMG] . [/QB][/QUOTE]
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