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Questions pertaining to Ancient Egypt are concerned with the civilization that existed in Northeastern Africa from around 3100 BCE to roughly 400 BCE centered along the Nile River. This civilization was responsible for the Pyramids, the Sphinx, and was the precursor to modern day Egypt.
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Who were the Hermotybians and Calascirians mentioned as making up the warrior caste of Egypt...
I was reading this wikipedia article about an elite military force in Egypt which began as an ethnic tribe from the deserts of the eastern Sudan. This tribe was called Medjay. It was mentioned that s …
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What do historians infer about the world view of the ancient Egyptians based on the prophecy...
Here are some excerpts of Neferty's prophecy
Papyrus Hermitage 1116B, lines 17- to 21
Utterly destroyed are those times of happiness at those basin lakes,
with men set to slitting fish, ove …
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Did Egyptian civilization start from North to South or vice versa?
I've been reading archeological claims that say that the ancient Egyptians came from the South and that the first chiefdoms and kings were in the south.
Some also claim that there is a crown of Uppe …
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Is there any evidence in history to suggest that there was a Melanchro (dark-skinned) popula...
On Quora, I encountered a variety of unsourced claims on this subject which I will list below
There are accounts of Black Colchians:
In 522-443, a Greek poet named Pindar described the Colchians as
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Does modern scholarship accept an Ethiopian or Nubian origin for Egyptian hieroglyphs?
Diodorus Siculus made the claim that the Hieroglyphs were actually an Ethiopian script, which was held sacred by the Egyptians and was learned and transmitted only within the priestly families of Egyp …
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