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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Hotep2u: [QB] Greetings: Here is some info to help clear up the Nubia Myth. Notice here that they don't include the FACT that Naqada has a city called Nubti also. Kom Ombo is an agricultural town in Egypt famous for its temple. [b]It was originally a Greek settlement called Ombos, from the Egyptian 'nubt', meaning City of Gold (not to be confused with the city north of Naqada that was also called Nubt/Ombos)[/b] . The town's location on the Nile 50 km north of Aswan gave it some control over trade routes from Nubia to the Nile Valley, but its main rise to prominence came with the erection of the temple in the 2nd century BC. Today, irrigated sugar cane and corn account for most of the agricultural industry. [b]Most of the 60,000 villagers are native Egyptians although there is a large population of Nubians who were displaced from their land upon the creation of Lake Nasser[/b]. Scene from the Nubti Temple: [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/KomOmbo_2004-12.jpg[/IMG] Here is the reality Nubti/Ombos was not Originally built by the Ptolemies they were rebuilding the City after it was destroyed by invaders. Cambyses stole the gold and burned the City so in order for the Ptolemies to establish a Dynasty they had to start from the SOUTH Nubti and rebuild the area. Djehuti wrote: [QUOTE]Yes! I've always wondered what they mean, when all the sources I've read say that Ta-Seti (A-group) Nubians were conquered or wiped out by newly unified Egypt!! What really happened to Ta-Seti?? The evidence shows that there was some sort of conflict between it and the newly formed nation-state of Egypt but exactly what was this conflict about and what was Ta-Seti's relationship and role after the formation of dynastic Egypt. Of course the A-group people didn't just disappear, but I find it interesting how some sources say A-group people were 'captured' by the Egyptians. [/QUOTE]They were NOT wiped out by attacks they suffered starvation, The famine Stelae was originally located in Nubti the home of Khnum. A certain part of the Nile dried up causing starvation amongst the Nubi located in the area. Dsojer was weeping for the inhabitants of Nubti during the famine. [i]Djoser[/i] Some fragmentary reliefs found at Heliopolis and Gebelein mention Djoser's name and suggest that he had commissioned construction projects in those cities. [b]An inscription claiming to date to the reign of Djoser, but actually created during the Ptolemaic Dynasty, relates how Djoser rebuilt the temple of the god Khnum on the island of Elephantine at the First Cataract, thus ending a famine in Egypt. While this inscription is but a legend, it does show that more than two millennia after his reign, Djoser was still remembered[/b]. The Egyptian Speos (Temples) The Egyptian rock cut temple, or speos, was of Nubian origin. The earliest example of which was the cave sanctuary at Sayala, a Nubian site just north of Abu Simbel on the west bank of the Nile River. This site is dated to the period of the Nubian A-Group culture (3700-3250 B.C.E.). This particularly Nubian architectural expression was adopted by the Egyptians of the New Kingdom, whose pharaohs commissioned several temples in Upper Egypt and in Nubia. The earliest of these, at Speos Artemidoros, is dated to the reign of Queen Hatshepsut of Dynasty XVIII, and the most famous are the paired Northern and Southern Temples at Abu Simbel. Here, Rameses II, to whom the Greater, or Southern Sanctuary is dedicated, is equated with male solar deities but can only dawn via the ministration of the female principal, ascribed to his chief queen Nofertari, to whom the Lesser, or Northern Sanctuary is dedicated. http://www.homestead.com/wysinger/qustul.html The Final Phases of the A-Group Culture At some point in time during the Final Phase of the A-Group culture the mercantile condominium that had been established between the Egyptians and the Nubians was dismantled. [b]That dismantling is ascribed to numerous factors, one of which was certainly changes in the climate that caused the drying up of one or more arms of the Nile River, forcing Nubians of the [/b] Some scholars have interpreted a tablet associated with the Egyptian pharaoh Aha of Dynasty I (about 3007-2975 B.C.E.) as an early commemoration of a victory over the Nubians. Although this interpretation is not universally endorsed, the evidence for such campaigns seems to be unequivocal regarding the subject of a rock carving from Gebel Sheikh Suliman, now removed and in the collections of the National Museum in Khartoum. This scene was probably created during the reign of one of Aha's immediate successors, Djer (about 2974-2927 B.C.E.). This monument appears to be a record of an Egyptian raid against the Nubians in the vicinity of the second cataract. By the end of Egypt's Dynasty I (about 2850 B.C.E.) Lower Nubia no longer appears to be actively trading with Egypt; the importation of Egyptian goods and products appears to have been arrested, but military activity appears to have accelerated. The closing years of the Final Phase of the A-Group culture witnessed the virtual disappearance of the Nubians of the A-Group. Having lost control of Lower Nubia, her inhabitants appear to have retreated to the desert or regions beyond the third cataract. [i]Massive confusion because they don't understand AFRIKAN CASTE SYSTEM OR AFRIKAN CULTURE.[/i] Hotep [/QB][/QUOTE]
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