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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Supercar: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Supercar: [qb] The ancient inhabitants of these regions didn't become "extinct"; they have descendants in the region.[/qb][/QUOTE][b]As Kemetian control extended beyond the 4th cataract, their art corresponded to the different people they came across.[/b] [IMG]http://www.homestead.com/wysinger/n.jpg[/IMG] [i]Courtesy of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.[/i] [IMG]http://www.homestead.com/wysinger/we.jpg[/IMG] [i]Courtesy of the Museo Civico Archeologico[/i] Above: Upper Nubian wrestlers and spectators. Notice distinctive facial features of these Nubians, compared to those of Nubians (mainly Lower Nubia) prior to extension of Egyptian control beyond the 4th cataract. [i]“The suggestion that the ancient Nubian wrestlers came from regions to the south of the fourth cataract seems to be confirmed by anthropological evidence.(25) Archaeologists examined a burial site at Gebel Moya and other hills in the Gezira of Sudan where remains date back to earlier than the twenty-fifth dynasty in Egypt. According to one of the archaeologists, “the cemeteries of this site have yielded the remains of a tall coarsely built Negro or Negroid race with extraordinarily massive skulls and jaws."(26) There is a strong possibility that the southern Nubians portrayed in the wrestling scenes came from this part of the Sudan. Anthropologists further suggest that the Negro type of the Gezira hills immigrated to the Nuba hills of southern Kordofan. The image of the tall, dark and extremely muscular Nubian is strikingly reminiscent of the Nuba of southern Kordofan in the Sudan. These people have remained sheltered in the remote hill country from outside influences and are surrounded by people that are physically and linguistically different from them.(27) Indeed, of the various people in the Sudan, none would seem better fit to be the descendants of the ancient Nubian wrestlers than those of the Nuba hill tribes of southern Kordofan.” - Scott T. Carroll, Gordon College.[/i] Other interesting "Nubian" (more likely Kushites) depictions [IMG]http://www.homestead.com/wysinger/nub.jpg[/IMG] [i]Nubian with oryx, monkey, and leopard skins 8th-7th century B.C.; Neo-Assyrian period; Phoenician style Excavated at Fort Shalmaneser, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Mesopotamia Ivory; Height 5.3 inches. [/i] http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=001797#000000 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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