Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt

The two other glyphs in the bottom row, a lightining bolt and a human figure running or jumping, probably imply a raindance
or storm-dance ritual.
Perhaps the entire glyph could thus read: “the star of wisdom which heralds in the rainy season/monsoon is greeted
with joy.” Perhaps Djedefre Water Mountain was a sort of natural sun temple to mark the summer solstice, and perhaps
the star people or cattle people told the Egyptians of their knowledge and tradition, which linked the summer solstice, the
monsoon, and the heliacal rising of the star Sirius.
There are so many water signs on Djedefre Water Mountain that we must recall heavy downpours (the
monsoons). Yet climatologists are adamant that the monsoons stopped coming this far north around 5000 BCE—but
how else could the Egyptians have known of these heavy downpours if not from a people who had actually experienced
them? Further, could these people have traveled such a vast distance—from Nabta Playa to Djedefre Water Mountain,
which, as the crow flies, is 360 kilometers (224 miles)?
In chapter 2 we briefly saw that in 2006 the Sahara anthropologists Stefan Kröpelin and Rudolph Kuper discovered
another water mountain located 700 kilometers (435 miles) south of Nabta Playa, within Sudan, just west of a place
called Dongola. The water mountain, which Kröpelin and Kuper described as a rock shelter, very much resembles
Djedefre Water Mountain. Kröpelin and Kuper called the location Gala El Sheikh, and apparently it will soon be part of a
protected national park. Also found were many petroglyphs—and, amazingly, there was the same water emblem as the
one found by Bergmann at Djedefre Water Mountain (the slightly bulging rectangle with two peaks and within it zigzag
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Unlike Bergmann’s site, however, at Gala El Sheikh there were no ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs or drawings,
suggesting that not only was the site of prehistoric origin but also that the people who once occupied this place had
cultural connections to those who once occupied the region near Dakhla oasis. If this was so, then both were clearly also
connected to the Nabta Playa people, for that site lies directly in the middle of a trail that could have joined Gala El
Sheikh and Djedefre Water Mountain. As Carlo Bergmann strongly suspected about these mysterious water emblems, a
thorough study of them, as well as further explorations in the Egyptian Sahara and along the possible trail that leads to
northwest Chad and the Ennedi Mountains, may prove that a vast network of communication existed in prehistoric times
among Black sub-Saharan Africans, and this eventually led them to migrate into the Nile Valley, where they, with their
millennia-old knowledge of astronomy, husbandry, and even perhaps basic writing and a religious system, hastened the
civilization that we call Egyptian. Much work remains to be done, but the evidence is convincing that the pharaohs were
the descendants of these Black prehistoric people from the Egyptian Sahara, and that the pharaohs knew about these
people even in early dynastic times.
For more than twenty-five years we have been on the quest for the origins of the ancient Egyptian civilization, yet we
never suspected that it would be such a thrilling and rewarding intellectual adventure. We have tried our very best to pass
the barrage of entrenched interests and to tell the general public of the many scattered clues that we have found in the
alignments of pyramids and temples, all of which have led us to piece together a giant historical puzzle. Slowly but surely
a completely new picture of our past emerges, revealing a lost and forgotten world, which extended from the Nile to the
borders of Sudan and Chad and which told a very different story of the origins of ancient Egypt—a tale much more
thrilling than that which any Egyptologist or anthropologist had previously led us to believe. We now can look with even
greater awe at the wonderful legacy of ancient Egypt—especially at those imposing pyramids and temples—and see in
them a very ancient message that was written in the stars, a message that directed us to faraway places in the desert and to
a time when hardy and intelligent black-skinned men planted a seed that grew in the Nile Valley to give rise to a
wonderful civilization. We know that from now on Egypt will never be the same for us, for when a Black Nubian or
African passes us by, we will see in him or her, as surely as we see in ourselves, the reflection of a common Black
genesis.