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- From: Bruce.Scott@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Scott)
- Subject: Re: Egyptian Race
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:02:07 GMT
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- In article <1h84u5INN1kj@quality.hal.COM> roseman@hal.COM (Marc Roseman) writes:
- >
- >As far as the origins of the egyptians, the contemporary egyptian belief
- >(about 2500 - 2000 bc) was that they were a nomadic people who wandered
- >throughout the sahara for tens of thousands of years, until it eventually
- >turned into a desert, and they were forced to resettle. These theories
- >were discounted until this century, when it was discovered that the sahara
- >turned into a desert fairly recently on the geological scale.
-
- Very interesting indeed. I had read about your last part, but not the
- first. Could you give a reference for the Egyptians' own beliefs?
-
- Bruce Scott
- Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany
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