Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt

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For my daughter, Candice, and my son, Jonathan. May you always remember your genesis. —Robert Bauval To my parents, in deepest gratitude for bringing me into this amazing journey. —Thomas Brophy
Page 4 and 5: BLACK GENESIS “Black Genesis offe
Page 6 and 7: Title Page Dedication Epigraph Ackn
Page 8 and 9: Will the Oldest Prehistoric Astrono
Page 10 and 11: easy-to-use astronomy software acce
Page 12 and 13: Fred Wendorf’s fascination with t
Page 14 and 15: As the author John Anthony West onc
Page 16 and 17: stone is or where it was before it
Page 18 and 19: himself. In Cairo he was assisted b
Page 20 and 21: 2 WANDERLUST The journey of Hassane
Page 22 and 23: ever made it known to others. It se
Page 24 and 25: Figure 2.2. King Herri of Unwainat
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Page 30 and 31: name first caught my eye, I christe
Page 32 and 33: the Dakhla area . . . bears implica
Page 34 and 35: THE EGYPTIAN TEACHER AND THE MALTES
Page 36 and 37: will return to this intriguing issu
Page 38 and 39: 3 STONEHENGE IN THE SAHARA For the
Page 40 and 41: the distant past. Around ten thousa
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Page 44 and 45: Figure 3.3. Upper left: Thomas Brop
Page 46 and 47: with unusual candor. The discovery
Page 48 and 49: 4 SIRIUS RISING We learn from the P
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4800 BCE. *11 In practice, then, th
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animation 7 at meetings of professi
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Figure 4.6. The excavation debris f
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3. Sirius also coordinated simultan
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The vernal equinox heliacal rising
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while, simultaneously, the priestes
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Figure 4.12. Photograph of Orion be
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excavators found the strangely scul
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Figure 4.13. Sunrise over Horizon H
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astronomical function for the Bagno
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Figure 4.18. Thomas Brophy with ali
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Egyptologists and anthropologists,
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Ironically, Walker is himself a Bla
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pastoralists that had themselves li
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addition, Diop suggests that blood
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Egyptians or who built the pyramids
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sophisticated societies in the Nile
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Plate 5. A human figure emerging fr
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Plate 11. Elder at Siwa Oasis Plate
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Plate 18. The goddess Isis with cow
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Plate 25. The temple of Hathor at D
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swift changes in some locations of
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evidence to date compels us to conc
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The next day at dawn we headed a fe
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The memory of the ancient lands mus
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6 THE CATTLE AND THE STAR GODDESSES
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Oxford, writes, “The Nile and its
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The modern town of Abu Simbel lies
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developed in the Sahara in prehisto
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Stele inscriptions, King Djoser (26
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Anne-Sophie von Bomhard, “was the
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The rising time of stars is delayed
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Sirius coincided with New Year’s
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of the pyramid, and 12,000 BCE, whi
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There are no less than 192 recesses
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has led to the conclusion that this
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mythical kings, the British Egyptol
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[North alignment toward Dubhe]: The
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The two other glyphs in the bottom
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also depicted in many different typ
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accepted that the shafts were, in f
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world, including those in ancient E
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itualistic and symbolic in this sha
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Tepi is an astroceremonial concept:
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summer solstice) which is 1,457 Egy
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any sign or fencing or official not
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Calendar Circle had been moved to t
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Footnotes *1. The English Patient,
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logically ask why, if Sirius rising
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unspeakable. Many scholars believe
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two-thirds of its length, the Vega-
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11. Hans Goedicke, “Harkhuf ’s
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21. Ibid. 22. Ibid. 23. Fred Wendor
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8. Ibid., 70. 9. Martin Bernal, Bla
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2003), 167. 5. Ian Shaw and Paul Ni
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67. Nathalie Beaux, “Sirius étoi
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APPENDIX 2. SOTHIC CYCLES AND IMHOT
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Brophy, Thomas, and Paul Rosen. “
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Lalouette, Claire. Textes sacrés e
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Whitrow, G. J. Time in History: Vie
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