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2007-10-29 21:44:07 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

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No, they were closer to the semitic peoples than to the African peoples to the south. Their paintings even bear out that they were conscious of this differences as they bear out the differences between themselves and Caucasian peoples. Look at the cave paintings, and yes, the Bible does bear out a difference between the various peoples in the middle east and northeastern Africa; Sheba and Egypt are different.

From what I've heard the ancient Egyptians were descendants of peoples that originally inhabited what is now the western Sahara, and that they moved eastward, at the end of the last ice age, eventually settling in the Nile river valley.

2007-10-30 04:30:15 · answer #1 · answered by 29 characters to work with...... 5 · 0 0

Ancient Egypt itself did not include any part of Ethiopia. Originally, it was made up of the Upper and Lower Kingdoms. These were united sometime after the Old Kingdom, and even as of the time of Ramses the Great, they did not include Ethiopia. The temple of Abu Simba (Sp.?) was constructed on the southern border of Egypt by Ramses the Great to show off the might of Egypt to anyone entering from the south. Sometime after the New Kingdom, however, Egypt was ruled by Ethiopians, and even before that, had a great deal of influence on them. There are statues found in tombs which show people with both Mediterranean and dark skin tones, so Egyptians were not necessarily dark-skinned, either.

2007-10-30 12:04:17 · answer #2 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 0 0

seems everyone wants to change the History of ancient Egypt. It is a sort of fashion !!!!! Egypt and Ethiopians were different cultures, both remembered in Bible, for example, and both with old roots, but different. BTW have you seen there a huge distance (of desert) between Egypt and Ethiopia ?

2007-10-30 05:40:33 · answer #3 · answered by lugfabio 3 · 1 1

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