17/08/2025
ANCIENT EGYPTIANS “SUB-SAHARAN” ORIGINS
In 2023, Christopher Ehret reported that the physical anthropological findings from the “major burial sites of those founding locales of ancient Egypt in the fourth millennium BCE, notably El-Badari as well as Naqada, show no demographic indebtedness to the Levant”.
Ehret specified that these studies revealed cranial and dental affinities with "closest parallels" to other longtime populations in the surrounding areas of Northeastern Africa “such as Nubia and the northern Horn of Africa”.
Ehret, Christopher (20 June 2023). Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 83–85.
https://www.academia.edu/121820837/Ancient_Africa_a_global_history_to_300_ce_by_Christopher_Ehret_Princeton_and_Oxford_Princeton_University_Press_2023_224_pp_27_95_22_00_hardback_ISBN_9780691244099
The so-called Sub-Saharan origins of ancient Egyptian civilization have been well documented for thousands of years. However, the very concept of “Sub-Saharan Africa” is misleading. Black Africans are indigenous to the entire continent, including North Africa and the Sahara itself. The “Sub-Saharan” label is a modern invention—created in the 20th century by colonial academics and used as propaganda to confine Black Africans to regions south of the Sahara. This narrative allowed later Eurasian settlers along North Africa’s coastlines to lay claim to the land while pushing indigenous Black North Africans toward the Sahel. In truth, Black Africans are “Supra-Saharan,” having always traversed and lived across the Sahara. The desert was never a barrier for them—only for Europeans.
Take a look at this short clip to dispel any misconceptions you may have.
The myth of the "Sub-Saharan African":
https://youtu.be/i-y9DVnHZsw?si=A6bzz3J4tYXvMHkt
“They say also that the Egyptians are colonists sent out by the Ethiopians, Osiris having been the leader of the colony… And the larger part of the customs of the Egyptians are, they hold, Ethiopian, the colonists still preserving their ancient manners…We must now speak about the Ethiopian writing which is called hieroglyphic among the Egyptians…”
- The Library of History of Diodorus Siculus Vol II, Book III: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/.../Diodorus_Siculus/3A*.html
The genetic evidence now supports greek records and show the foundational ethnic groups that make up the ancient Egyptian genome migrated into the Nile Valley in a mass migrantion around the neolithic era due to rapid climate change.
"Ehret cited other genetic evidence which had identified the Horn of Africa as a source of a genetic marker “M35 /215” Y-chromosome lineage for a significant population component which moved north from that region into Egypt and the Levant."
Ehret, Christopher (20 June 2023). Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE. Princeton University Press. pp. 97, 167:
https://www.academia.edu/121820837/Ancient_Africa_a_global_history_to_300_ce_by_Christopher_Ehret_Princeton_and_Oxford_Princeton_University_Press_2023_224_pp_27_95_22_00_hardback_ISBN_9780691244099
In antiquity, the region now labeled “Sub-Saharan Africa” was known to the Pharaohs as Ta-Netjer, meaning “Land of the Gods.” The interior of Africa was regarded as their holy land and the birthplace of their pantheon, stretching from the Great Lakes region in present-day Uganda and Kenya to the Horn of Africa. Within this greater region of Ta-Netjer lay the Land of Punt—a sacred territory to which the Pharaohs made holy pilgrimages to honor the gods in the land of their ancestors.
Radha Krishna Sinha, DPhil (Oxford), former Head of the Department of English at Patna University and a scholar with extensive writings on African–Egyptian historical connections, wrote that
“The southern shore of the gulf of Aden was the land of Punt of the ancient Egyptians, the Ophir of the Hebrews, the Berbera and the Adel of the Arabs and Portuguese’.
The ancient Egyptians believed that they originally came from PUNT which is now the nothern Horn of Africa, which ancient Egypt had constant connection all through her history. There was a great similarity between the Puntites as represented in the Egyptian monuments and the Egyptians themselves, and it is said that the pre-dynastic Egyptians found their way from Punt, passing up the coast of the Red sea and entering Egypt through Wadi Hammamat, thereafter spreading south into Nubia.
As the name Punt is always described in the official Egyptian texts without the detriminative of a foreign country or land, the ancient Egyptians regarded the people of Punt as being racially connected with themselves.”
R. K. Sinha, Punt & the Puntites as Depicted in the Ancient Egyptian Monuments, in Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Vol. 44 (1983), pp. 593–598
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44139909
Gerald Massey confirms these southern origins and what the Greeks had known centuries before ever stepping foot on Africa soil. He would go on to say,
"The Egyptian record when correctly read will tell us plainly that the human birthplace was a land of the papyrus reed, the crocodile, and hippopotamus; a land of the great lakes in Karua, the Koloe of Ptolemy, or in Apta at the horn point of the earth — that is, in Equatoria, from whence the sacred river ran to brim the valley of the Nile with plenty. The track of civilization with cities springing in its footprints is seaward from the south, not upward from Lower Egypt, which was a swamp when Upper Egypt was already the African home of civilization. The Egyptians always gave priority to the south over the delta in the north.
Also the south was and is the natural habitat of the oldest fauna and most peculiar of the sacred zootypes. It is in vain we judge of the race by the figures and faces of the rulers portrayed in monumental times. Primary data must be sought for amongst the Fellaheen and corroborated by the skulls. Captain Burton wrote to me in 1883, saying, "You are quite right about the African origin of the Egyptians, and I have sent home a hundred skulls to prove it." (Does anyone know what became of these skulls?)"
Gerald Massey, Ancient Egypt Light Of The World, Volume 1, pg. 50-70
Black African Origins of Ancient Egypt | WATCH NOW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYnUaRMSM_4&t=1854s
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