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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] Bottom line, any discussion of "Ancient Nubia" as a distinct geopolital entity in the Nile Valley is problematic to begin with. Just like there were no French in Europe in 5,000 BC, neither were there any "Nubians" in the Nile Valley in 5,000 BC, 3,000 BC or even 2,000 BC. "Nubian" in the context of the ancient Nile Valley is a made up ethno-cultural entity created by European archaeologists/egyptologists. All populations along the Nile are related as "Nile Valley Africans" even with mixture. Claiming that "Nubians" as Nile Valley Africans are separate from Egyptians as Nile Valley Africans is the problem. They are all Nile Valley African populations and hence are more closely related to each other than any other population anywhere else. https://undark.org/article/nubia-sudan-amara-west-archaeology/ To this day any discussion of so-called "Nubia" is a discussion of contradictions. And these papers are no different because they keep trying to flesh out a framework based on ideologies of racism from the past instead of throwing them out. From the article above: [QUOTE] Between 5,000 and 3,000 B.C., humans across Africa were migrating to the Nile’s lush banks as the Earth warmed and equatorial jungles transformed into the deserts they are today. “You cannot go 50 kilometers along the Nile River Valley without finding an important site because humans spent thousands of years here in the same place, from prehistoric to modern times,” Vincent Francigny, the director of the French Archeological Unit, tells me in his office in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. Nearby his office, the White Nile from Uganda and the Blue Nile from Ethiopia unite into one river that flows through Nubia, enters Egypt and exits into the Mediterranean Sea. [/QUOTE]How about Africans have been migrating along the Nile since the first humans existed in Africa? First contradiction. [QUOTE] Roughly around 2,000 B.C., archaeologists find the first traces of the Nubian kingdom called Kush. [/QUOTE]Second contradiction. Kerma preceded Kush by thousands of years and cultures in Northern Sudan existed prior to the Predynastic. Most of the ancient sites prior to the predynastic like Wadi Kubbaniya and other sites are in the regions close to Sudan if not in Sudan proper. [QUOTE] Egyptians conquered parts of the Kushite Kingdom for a few hundred years, and around 1,000 B.C., Egyptians appear to have died, left, or mixed thoroughly with the local population. At 800 B.C., Kushite kings, also known as the black pharaohs, took over Egypt for a century — two cobras decorating the pharaohs’ crowns signify the unification of kingdoms. And somewhere around 300 A.D., the Kushite empire began to fade away. [/QUOTE]Next contradiction. The AE actually annexed Lower Sudan as part of Egypt and declared that the main deity of the AE pantheon originated in Sudan: Amun at Gebel Barkal, which means that the AE acknowledged the roots of AE kingship originating in what is now Sudan..... And on and on and on. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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