Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt

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Title Page Dedication Epigraph Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION: Ancient Egypt Reborn Chapter 1. Strange Stones A Lucky Turn of the Spade The Combined Prehistoric Expedition (CPE ) Circle, Alignments, and Tumuli In Comes Archaeoastronomy CONTENTS Chapter 2. Wanderlust Oxford Gentleman, Queen’s Lover, and Deep Desert Explorer The Lost Oasis The Desert Prince and the English Patient The Expeditions of Harkhuf From Ford Company Trainee to Camel Driver The Abu Ballas Trail The Egyptian Teacher and the Maltese Businessman Pharaonic Inscriptions! A Cartouche of a King! Pharaoh Mentuhotep’s Envoy to Yam The Road to Yam and Tekhebet Chapter 3. Stonehenge in the Sahara Sahara Climate Cycles: Another Link to the Stars? Tracking the Stars Textual Evidence? CNN: “Sahara Stonehenge!” Gates of the Sun Inexplicable Constructions The 2001 Official Site Report: Reluctant Introduction of the Stars Alignments Toward the Stars: When and Why? Chapter 4. Sirius Rising Calendar Circle Revealed Calendar Circle Resolved Space Age Meets Stone Age Sirius, the Circumpolar Stars, and Orion A Right Angle and Two Stars One Year of Astronomy at Nabta Playa More Mysteries at Nabta Playa
More Mysteries at Nabta Playa The Sun Temple of Djedefre in the Sahara Bagnold Circle Chapter 5. The Bible, the Hamites, and the Black Men Ham, Son of Noah The Half-Hamites Theory Black Athena The Out of Africa Eve It Is All in the Melanin Diop and the Cause of His Struggles Consolidating the Evidence Out of the Sahara and into the Nile Valley The Source? Meet the Ancestors Two Giant Giraffes in Stone Deep Desert Journey Chapter 6. The Cattle and the Star Goddesses Taming the Auroch Bones and Stones Navigating the Sand Sea Moving East Toward the NileValley The Sacred Island of Elephantine The Time Machine of the Ancient A Sense of Eternity The Sacred Yearly Inundation Black Genesis: Year Zero The Great Pyramid and Zep Tepi The Great Wall of Time Other Evidence of the Long-Term Tracking of Sirius Those Who Followed the Sun Hathor, Is is, the Big Dipper, and Sirius The Sun Temples of the Sun Kings POSTSCRIPT: Discovery of the Kifah Cave APPENDIX 1: Back to the First Time Vega, Sirius, and Orion Agree at Giza Vega and the Subterranean Passage Take a Walk at the First Time with Sirius Dual Dating and Vega Reconfirmed Sothic Cycles and Zep Tepi Exact Date of Zep Tepi? APPENDIX 2: Sothic Cycles and Imhotep’s Calendar Wall APPENDIX 3: Saving Nabta Playa
Page 3 and 4: For my daughter, Candice, and my so
Page 5: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book was not a
Page 9 and 10: INTRODUCTION ANCIENT EGYPT REBORN N
Page 11 and 12: 1 STRANGE STONES In Nabta there are
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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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Figure 4.14. Bagnold Circle in, top
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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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Plate 22. The rock-cut tomb of Hark
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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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pointed star, which represents Siri
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In the first century, some half-cen
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Egyptologists have established that
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Like the Nabta Playa prehistoric st
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y the astronomer Sir Norman Lockyer
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In appendix 1 we look in detail at
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esynchronized every 1,460 years—t
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÷ 10 = 3.9 years for the calendar
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ole, he was known as Hor-Akhti, Hor
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The rounded planisphere that is see
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topped mound whose midpoint and end
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POSTSCRIPT DISCOVERY OF THE KIFAH C
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APPENDIX 1 BACK TO THE FIRST TIME V
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TAKE A WALK AT THE FIRST TIME WITH
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alignment is part of a symbolic sys
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Pyramid at Zawiyet el-Aryan) is ass
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APPENDIX 2 SOTHIC CYCLES AND IMHOTE
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APPENDIX 3 SAVING NABTA PLAYA Will
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Figure A2. Rubbish dumps in the cen
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a huge pumping station (the Mubarak
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In actual practice, though, the dev
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are not now capable of this percept
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*53. Actually, it is 365.242 days,
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Endnotes CHAPTER 1. STRANGE STONES
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Mentioning Yam and Tekhebet,” Sah
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13. J. M. Malville, R. Schild, F. W
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41. Thomas Brophy, The Mechanism De
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34. G. A. Wainwright, “Seshat and
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100. The story is told in the Westc
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Bibliography Abed, Wael T. The Othe
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Genzlinger, Neil. “Chasing Mummie
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Millennium: A Reassessment.” Jour
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About the Authors Egyptian-born Rob
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