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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Supercar: [QB] [b]Hotep's posted[/b]: This is a good question, I think that at some point within 2500 B.C to 2000 B.C Kerma area was abondoned and later got inhabitted by a foreign group that eventually sided with the Hyksos upon their invasion. Though Kush might have had strong ties with Kemet and showed continuity thus they sided with Kemet in order to remove the Hyksos. The puzzle here is that Kerma sided with the Hyksos which implies that they felt that Kemet did NOT hold their best interest. Though Kush sided with Kemet showing they were very loyal to Kemet, the question then is why did Kush support Kemet and Kerma support the Hyksos? The war that led to the expulsion of the Hyksos proves that a difference between Kerma and Kush existed in my opinion. Hotep [b]My feedback[/b]: What was the name given to this new group of "Kerma", if they hadn't been "Kushites", and what was that given to the "Kushites", which supposedly differentiated them from the said "contemporaneous" folks in "Kerma"? From your understanding, where did the "Kerma" folks of the Kerma cultural complex move to, after abandoning the Kerma area? [b]Ausar commented[/b]: That makes no sense. The term Kerma is a modern term for a village around Northern Sudan. Kush[although some dispute it] was a term that ancient Kemetians applied to regions in the Upper Nile. The town known today as Kerma is possibly the Yam of the Old Kingdom texts of Km.t. Since the people of Kerma had no writting,and Merotic is mostly undeciphered we don't know much about them except from archaeological remains. We do have some textual correspondence between the Kushites and Hykos leader that was intercepted by Kamose. And… Hello, Dr. Winters, Right know I don't have neither the time nor acess to even basic ancient Egyptian texts. I believe the correspondence and Kamose aprehending the Kushite messanger to the Hykos comes from the Kamose stela. You can read second hand translations of the stea in the following books: Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings: Vol. 2, The New Kingdom (Paperback) by Miriam Lichtheim The second Stela of Kamose and his struggle against the Hyksos ruler and his capital by Labib Habachi ------- It should be clear...unless, someone knows something to the contrary, and would therefore like to share the specifics of those details. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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