Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt

41. Thomas Brophy, The Mechanism Demands a Mysticism (Blue Hill, Maine: Medicine Bear Publishing, 1999).
42. Memri TV, Arabic video, English transcript, broadcast February 11, 2009. See www.memritv.org/clip/en/2049.htm
Accessed August 20, 2010.
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44. Romuald Schild and Fred Wendorf, “Forty Years of the Combined Prehistoric Expedition,” Archaeologia Polona
40 (2002): 3–22.
45. Sean Markey, “Exodus from Drying Sahara Gave Rise to Pharaohs, Study Says,” National Geographic News, July
20, 2006, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/07/060720-sahara.html. (Accessed August 20, 2010.)
46. Romuald Schild and Michal Kobusiewicz, “Prehistoric Herdsmen, Academia,” Focus on Archaeology 3, no. 7
(2005).
47. Gerhard Rohlfs, Voyages et Explorations au Sahara, tome 2 (n.p.,1865–67).
48. Rosita Forbes and Sir Harry Johnston, The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara (London: n.p., 1923), introduction.
49. Ahmed Hassanein, “Crossing the Untraversered Libyan Desert,” National Geographic Magazine, vol. XLVI, no. 3,
September 1924.
50. R. A. Bagnold, O. H. Myers, R. F. Peel, and H. A. Winkler, “An Expedition to the Gilf Kebir and Uweinat, 1938,”
Geographical Journal 93, no. 4 (April 1939), 281–312. See also Major R. A. Bagnold, “Journeys in the Libyan
Desert, 1929 and 1930,” Georgaphical Journal 78, no. 1 (1931): 13.
51. From L. E. Almasy. Recentes Explorations dans le Desert Libyque, Royal Geographical society of Egypt, 1936, p.
36. Quoted in Wael T. Abed’s book The Other Egypt (Cairo: n.p., 1998), 108.
52. Ibid.
53. Rudolph Kuper and Stefan Kröpelin, “Climate-Controlled Holocene Occupation in the Sahara: Motor of Africa’s
Evolution,” Science Journal AAAS (July 2006).
54. Kenneth Chang, “In Lake, Signs of Slow Shift from Savannah to Sahara,” New York Times, May 9, 2008.
55. Peter Gwin, “Lost Tribes of the Green Sahara,” National Geographic, September 2008.
56. Ibid.
57. Ibid. Sponsors and funders for the Gobero expeditions are National Geographic, Island Fund of the New York
Community Trust, the National Science Foundation, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
See also “Stone Age Graveyard Reveals Lifestyles of a ‘Green Sahara’: Two Successive Cultures Thrived Lakeside,”
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58. Jean-Loic Quellec, “Can One ‘Read’ the Rock Art? An Egyptian Example.” In Paul Taylor, ed., Iconography without
Texts (London: Warburg Warburg Institute Colloquia 12), 2008, pp. 25–42.
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CHAPTER 6. THE CATTLE AND THE STAR GODDESSES
1. Richard Parker, “Ancient Egyptian Astronomy,” Department of Egyptology, Brown University, Philosophical
Transaction of the Royal Society of London, 1974, A 276, 51–65. See also Professor Jiro Kondo, Ancient Egyptian
Astronomy (Tokyo: Waseda Universtiy, 2008), www.yomiuri.co.jp/adv/wol/dy/opinion/culture_081006.htm.
Accessed August 23, 2010.
2. For a very early, possibly even prehistoric, representation of a star-cow goddess of ancient Egypt see Donald B.
Redford, ed., “Predynastic Star-studded Cow Goddess,” Oxford Guide to Egyptian Mythology (New York: Berkley
Books, 2002), 157–61.
3. Jaromir Malek and John Baines, The Cultural Atlas of the World: Ancient Egypt (Richmond, Va.: Stonehenge Press,
1991), 14.
4. Richard Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press,