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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Anglo_Pyramidologist: [QB] [b]huy60[/b], Manilius, Strabo etc are incredibly late sources. In fact all the Greco-Roman texts are. They only go back to the mid-5th century BC on the Egyptians. Same with pottery, as the earliest scenes of egypt go back to the early 1st millenium BC only. What you need to look at is Egyptian literature itself OR Greco-Roman sources describing early dynastic egyptian figures. See my research on Nitocris here - [QUOTE]The earliest Great Royal Wife we have an extant literary physical description of is Nitocris (Dynasty VI, 22nd century BC). Although the exact historicity of Nitocris is disputed, many egyptologists since the 19th century have maintained she was related to Queen Neith, the wife of Pepi II or Pepi himself, although other theories have been proposed as shall be shown just below (Wilkinson, Herodotus, vol. ii. p. 165, note 2; Grimal, A History of Ancient Egypt, 1992, p. 89 cf. Newberry, 1943, p. 53). The extant physical description of Nitocris comes from Manetho's Aegyptiaca (''History of Egypt'') written in the 3rd century BC, but draws on a far older pre-Herodotean tradition (Loyd, Commentary on Herodotus, 1988, p. 14; Gera, Warrior Women, 1997, p. 101). Nitocris appears mentioned in Herodotus (ii. 100) and Eratosthenes (FGrH 610 F1) but is first physically described in a fragment by Manetho (FGrH 609 F2, f3a-b). Since Manetho's Aegyptiaca has not come down to us complete, we only have preserved fragments from later chroniclers (such as Eusebius and Syncellus). In George Syncellus' Chronography quoting Eusebius (FGrH 609 F 3) for example it is said - ''Nitocris, the noblest and loveliest of woman of her time, of fair complexion, the builder of the third pyramid, reigned for 12 years.'' We find in the original Greek here that Nitocris was xanthe, fair or blonde, which usually is attributed to the hair, not skin complexion (see Myres, Who were the Greeks?, 1930, p. 194). However another variant fragment found in Eusebius' Chronicon (xlvii) describes Nitocris as flava rubris genis, ''blonde with rosy cheeks'' (Waddell, Manetho, 1940, p. 57). According to Wilkinson: ''Nitocris was a woman of great beauty; and, if we may believe Manetho, she had a fair complexion and flaxen hair'' (1837, p. 91). Manetho's fragments assert that it was Nitocris who ordered the construction of the third pyramid (the pyramid of Menkaure). Scholars have long noted the connection between Nitocris and Rhodopis, the ''rosy-cheeked'' woman, who in Greek and Roman tradition is also described as having been a Queen of Egypt and architect of the third pyramid (Lloyd 1988, pp. 14-15, Tyldesley, Daughters of Isis, 1994, pp. 217-218). Thus we have a strong literary tradition of a blonde and fair skinned or ''rosy-cheeked'' Queen of Egypt (Great Royal Wife) during the Old Kingdom period who is associated with the construction of a pyramid.[/QUOTE]So according to Manetho, the third Pyramid was built by a blonde haired, fair skinned egyptian woman (Nitocris). These traits are not applicable to Negroids. How many blonde/fair skinned Negroes are there? LMAO. Afrocentrics will only quote-mine sources, they always leave out the Nitocris quote. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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