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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] ^ There are no references to white or blonde Berbers in the Old Kingdom. The first references to such people comes from the [b]Middle Kingdom[/b] as Brandon cites. Also, the idea that the lighter-skinned Berbers--not the Nordic types but the dark-haired ones-- originated from Syria-Palestine is something I've read about before in several sources. This largely stems from not just physical appearance but also certain attire. [IMG]https://i.postimg.cc/v8N8k0Xv/Bates-pl2.jpg[/IMG] And not only appearance and attire... [URL=https://www.salimbeti.com/micenei/sea.htm]The Greek Age of Bronze Sea Peoples[/URL] [i] The Great Karnak inscription of the Pharaoh Merneptah also states that [b]at least three of the Sea Peoples, the Ekwesh, Sheklesh and Sherden, were circumcised.[/b] It is interesting to note in any event, the biblical emphasis on the Philistines as uncircumcised and the fact that they are almost the only group so labeled in the biblical corpus suggest that they may have been the archetype of "uncircumcision" for the biblical authors. [IMG]https://www.salimbeti.com/micenei/images/seapeoples63.jpg[/IMG] This image of Sherden chief closely resembles that of Semites as the Egyptians habitually portrayed them, and also suggests that Sherden were native to the East with its ancient Semitic population. As already mentioned also [b]the Sherden together the Ekwesh, and Sheklesh were circumcised[/b] as states in the Great Karnak inscription of the Pharaoh Merneptah.[/i] So it's clear that [i]some[/i] of these Sea Peoples adopted the African specifically Afroasiatic custom of circumcision. As for the Meshwesh who were not a Sea People but a Libyan group, that they descend from the Trojans is a curious claim considering Virgil's epic [i]Aeneid[/i] which describes how the Trojan prince Aeneas led a group of refugees fleeing the Greek sacking of Troy, and how before their final destination in Latium they stopped in the recently founded Phoenician colony of Carthage in Tunisia. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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