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13. J. M. Malville, R. Schild, F. Wendorf, and J. Brenmer, “Astronomy of Nabta Playa.” 14. Thomas Brophy, The Origin Map: Discovery of a Prehistoric Megalithic Astrophysical Map of the Universe (Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, September 20, 2002). 15. E. C. Krupp, Echoes of the Ancient Skies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983), 26.16. We published a photo of them in Brophy and Rosen, “Satellite Imagery Measured of the Astronomically Aligned Megaliths at Nabta Playa.” 16. Wendorf and Schild, et al., Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara, vol. 1: The Archaeology of Nabta Playa, 510. 17. Ibid. 18. See, for instance, G. De Santillana, and H. von Dechend, Hamlet’s Mill (Boston: Gambit Inc., 1969). 19. Discovery Channel documentary: Egypt Uncovered: Chaos and Kings, 1998. 20. Wendorf and Schild, et al., Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara, vol. 1: The Archaeology of Nabta Playa, 510. 21. Ibid. 22. Brophy and Rosen, “Satellite Imagery Measured of the Astronomically Aligned Megaliths at Nabta Playa.” 23. J. M. Malville, R. Schild, F. Wendorf, and J. Brenmer, “Astronomy of Nabta Playa,” African Skies/Cieus Africains, no. 11 (July 2007). 24. Ibid. 25. Wendorf and Schild, et al., Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara, vol. 1: The Archaeology of Nabta Playa, 495. 26. F. Wendorf, A. E. Close, and R. Schild. “Megaliths in the Egyptian Sahara,” Sahara 5 (1992–1993): 7–16. 27. For example, P. A. Rosen, T. Brophy, and M. Shimada, “Satellite Observations of Archaeoastronomical Structures at Nabta Play, Egypt,” proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Boston Massachusetts, 2008. 28. R. A. Bagnold, The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes (London: Methuen, 1941). 29. R. A. Bagnold, “Journeys in the Libyan Desert 1929 and 1930,” Geographical Journal 78, no. 1 (July 1931). 30. J. McKim Malville, Romuald Schild, Fred Wendorf, et al., “Astronomy of Nabta Playa,” in J. Holbrook et. al., eds., African Cultural Astronomy—Current Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy Research in Africa (New York: Springer, 2008), 133. 31. See, for example, Rosen, Brophy, and Shimada, “Satellite Observations of Archaeoastronomical Structures at Nabta Play, Egypt.” 32. Ibid. 33. Fliegel Jezerniczky Expeditions website (6 Jan 2009): www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2160254/posts. CHAPTER 5. THE BIBLE, THE HAMITES, AND THE BLACK MEN 1. Jailan Zayan, Egypt—Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs and Culture (London: Kuperard, 2007), 60. 2. A description of this view can be found in a letter published in the American Journal of Human Biology 13 (2001): 569–75 referencing S. O. Y. Keita, and A. J. Boyce, Race: Confusion about Zoological and Social Taxonomies, and Their Places in Science (Chicago and Oxford, England: Field Museum and Institute of Biological Anthropology, Oxford University). 3. Peter Rigby, African Images (Oxford, England: Berg Publishers, 1996), 68. 4. C. G. Seligman. Races of Africa (London: T. Butterworth, 1930). 5. Ibid., 96. 6. Henri Frankfort, Kingship and the Gods (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978), 16. 7. Ibid., 163.
8. Ibid., 70. 9. Martin Bernal, Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, vols. 1, 2, and 3 (Piscataway, N.J.: Rutgers University Press 1987). 10. See Clarence Walker, We Can’t Go Home Again: An Argument about Afrocentrism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). 11. Ibid. Also see www.egyptsearch.com/forum/HTML/001646.html. 12. Rebecca L. Cann, Mark Stoneking, and Allan C. Wilson, “Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution,” Nature 325 (1987): 31–36. 13. Michael Deacon, “Interview with Alice Roberts: The Incredible Human Journey,” Daily Telegraph, May 5, 2009. 14. Ibid. 15. Pedro Soares et al., “Correcting for Purifying Selection: An Improved Human Mitochondrial Molecular Clock,” American Journal of Human Genetics 84, no. 6 (June 4, 2009): 740–59. We note that more recent research (see note 14) pushes that back to about 200,000 BCE. 16. See Bradshaw Foundation at www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey. 17. Ibid. 18. Anta Diop, “Origin of the Ancient Egyptians” (see www.africawithin.com/diop/origin_egyptian.htm). 19. Ibid. 20. Ibid. 21. R. Schild and F. Wendorf, “Forty Years of Combined Prehistoric Expedition,” Archaeologia Polona 40 (2002): 18. 22. Taken from an article by Cheikh Anta Diop in “Egypt Revisited,” Journal of African Civilization 10 (Summer 1989): 9–39. 23. Ibid. 24. Herodotus, The Histories, II, 104. 25. Ibid., 22. 26. Aristotle, Physiognomy, 6. 27. Aeschylus, The Suppliants, verses 719–20. See also verse 745. 28. Apollodoros, Book II, “The Family of Inachus,” paragraphs 3 and 4. 29. Lucian, Navigations, paragraphs 2 and 3. 30. Strabo, Geography, Book I, chapter 3, paragraph 10; Diodorus of Sicily, Universal History, Book III; Diogenes, Laertius, Book VII, verse i; Ammianus Marcellinus, Book XXII, paragraph 16:23. 31. M. C. F. Volney, Voyages en Syrie et en Egypte (Paris: n.p., 1787), vol. I, 74–77. 32. Jean-Jacques Champollion-Figeac, L’Egypte Ancienne, Didot ed., Paris: 1839, pp. 26–27. 33. Adolf Erman, Hermann Grapow, Deutsche Akamemie, Worterbuch der Aegyptischen Sprache, vol 5 (n.p., 1971), 122, 127. 34. Ibid., 123–28. 35. UNESCO Symposium on the Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Deciphering of the Meroitic Script, January 1974, Cairo. Proceedings of the Conference published in 1978. 36. Richard Girling, “King Tut Tut Tut,” Sunday Times of London, May 22, 2005. 37. Neil Genzlinger, “Chasing Mummies—The Pharaoh of Egyptian Antiquities,” New York Times, July 13, 2010. 38. http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/jerusalem-post/mi_8048/is_20070402/war-pyramid-theorist/ai_n47369584. 39. Ibid. 40. Jerusalem Post, April 2, 2007, “War of the Pyramid Theorists,” by Yaniv Salama-Scheer: http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/jerusalem-post/mi_8048/is_20070402/war-pyramid-theorists/ai_n47369584.
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For my daughter, Candice, and my so
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book was not a
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More Mysteries at Nabta Playa The S
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INTRODUCTION ANCIENT EGYPT REBORN N
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1 STRANGE STONES In Nabta there are
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desert” emerge from the surroundi
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stage the CPE anthropologists were
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arguments—and especially on the B
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This time, some archaeologists took
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who’s who of famous men: it inclu
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huge rocky massif sprouting out of
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Almasy planned an expedition to Gil
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of Setu and Irtet after having expl
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Sahara, and their bones were brough
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Djedefre Water Mountain, as Bergama
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Figure 2.5. Abu Ballas Pottery Hill
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can imagine how these scholars felt
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followed by the same determinative
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The surface of the now-covered bedr
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indeed, one of the main objectives
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In addition to tumuli tombs of catt
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since fallen. The largest ones were
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ALIGNMENTS TOWARD THE STARS: WHEN A
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elated not only to the gates of the
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dates within thousands of years of
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the largest stone. Again, the dista
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thus sent in an order to Quickbird
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Finally, to our relief, the light f
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degrees and azimuth 22.5 degrees an
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associated with the heleical rising
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ight angle. After that date, Nabta
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also note that several megalithic a
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ceremonial complex of Nabta Playa.
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have been placed by humans, possibl
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5 THE BIBLE, THE HAMITES, AND THE B
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Even allowing that scholars tend to
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May 11, 2001, vol. 292, no. 5519, p
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egions: the Nile Valley and the vas
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At any rate, suffice it to say that
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perspective. We must also acknowled
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Plate 2. Djedefre Water Mountain, c
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Plate 8. Robert Bauval with herder
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Plate 15. Models of cows, Eleventh
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wagging tail. We found them on the
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BCE to 2500 BCE. What she found odd
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eassure us that all is not lost, af
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Figure 5.3. Numerous prehistoric ha
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themselves, our drivers uttered a b
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arely kill their cattle for food ex
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to study the stars, perhaps even na
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