Originally published at: GENOMES CONNECT EGYPT AND SUMER
This fun and excellent article was shared by M.D., with my deepest gratitude. We’ll get back to why my gratitude is so profound, but I want to dive right into the article without much further ado: Ancient Egyptian genome reveals 4,500-year-old genetic ties to Mesopotamia Note that this article now confirms not only the cultural…
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I shall quote from W. B. Emery’s Archaic Egypt, first published in 1961:
Blockquote Authorities are divided in their opinions as to the reason for this sudden cultural advance, but it would seem probable that the principal cause was the incursion of a new people into the Nile valley, who brought with them the foundation of what, for want of a better designation, we may call Pharaonic civilization.
Emery then goes on to mention an ivory knife handle, found at Gebel-al-Harak, as evidence of a possible Mesopotamian incursion into Egypt during the fourth millennium B. C. Here’s a detail of said knife handle:
This motif, of a figure standing between to large felines, is remarkably similar what Hyatt and Ruth Verril, in their America’s Ancient Civilizations call the Keeper of the Cats, which is found in the artwork of a number of pre-Hispanic Andean cultures. They point out that these South American figures bear a striking resemblance to those of Ningursu (Nimrod) from Lagash on the Persian Gulf, even suggesting the possibility of, “Sumerian-Phoenician voyagers having reached America around 3000 B.C.”
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Check out the work of Billy Carson on this subject, he goes into it in detail & has read many Ancient Writings. So many people had added to our knowledge, but each one has their own following & we need someone to bring all these varied sources together! 