History Forum / General / Ancient History / April 2004

Ancient Egyptian Southern Origins - The Flow of the Nile River and its
Inhabitants
The Nile Valley River system is the world's longest water-way (4,160 miles),
and it irrigates approximately 2,800,000 acres of land in Sudan and 7,600,000

descent-line from King David of Israel to King George III of Britain
00. Jesse, a Judahite sheikh
01. DAVID, King of ISRAEL, circa 1000BC [dates are approximate]
02. SOLOMON, King of ISRAEL 970-930BC

The abolition of the Egyptian Mysteries together with Greek philosophy
By George G.M. James
From the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Destroyer (so-called "Great"), the
Greeks, who were always attracted by the mysterious worship of the Nile-land,

The general consensus reached at the Cairo Symposium was that there was no
evidence that the ancient Egyptians were white, and that Egypt was not
influenced by Mesopotamia, but the peoples from "the Great Lakes region in
inner-equatorial Africa."

The following statement was made on an AE website:
"A little before 3000 B.C., traders from southern Iraq also sailed to Egypt,
and some of these people, attracted by the fertile land of the country,
decided to stay on."

I seems a bit of a mantra today that appeasement has always,
throughout all of history, emboldened the appeased, but the
only example ever proffered in support of this is Chamberlain
and Hitler.

At the time of king Croesus, were the Lydians, in whole or in part,
Ionian Greeks? What language did they speak, and what alphabet did
they use? I would appreciate any information.
Domenico Rosa

******Introduction: The Greeks were not the authors of Greek Philosophy, but
the people of North Africa, commonly called the Egyptians.******
We are told in the Western world that, the highest form of civilization is
"Western," that this western civilization is the independent ...

Is it an historical fact that ancient Egyptians were black?
Bradwell Jackson

The conversion of names in Egypt was on such a universal scale that it's
African origin and character were changed as much as it was humanly possible to
do. Small political units or states, which Europeans styled as chiefdoms in
other parts of Africa, became nomarchies in Egypt.

First notice the difference between an ard and a plough,
which sometimes aren't as welknown as one would think.
While an ard/arder 'grip' into the land below surface the plough roll/turn
the soil/ground under surface as well as on top. There were in early times

Did the ancients Stretch before sports or before a battle?

Good Morning,
I have created an online concordance of the Mandaic Aramaic language,
the only Aramaic language currently used  today by the followers of
John the Baptist (the Mandaeans, from the Aramaic Manda, ie.

Over on soc.history.what-if there is an ugly debate over sealing
technology in the ancient times.  Does anyone here have any
information?  Here is are a few  speculations:
1) Wax might do.

Good Day,
I have a question that has been bugging me recently, but it'll be so obvious
when someone points it out. I have remained clueless for the last week
regarding it, so please cure my Furies-ravished mind...