^^^ Great site for information, and art in Egypt, and from all over the world.
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^^^ Great site for information, and art in Egypt, and from all over the world.
I understand that it escaped your notice: But there is not one authentic representation of an Egyptian on that link (the busts are all reconstructions made to appear White, or too damaged to tell). Of course you are not to blame for that, but when you recommend a site without qualification, you are in fact indorsing it. The reality is that like most White institutions, Metmuseum attempts to hide or confuse the fact that the ancients were Black people. To me, that is a very important point.
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^^^ Great site for information, and art in Egypt, and from all over the world.
I understand that it escaped your notice: But there is not one authentic representation of an Egyptian on that link (the busts are all reconstructions made to appear White, or too damaged to tell). Of course you are not to blame for that, but when you recommend a site without qualification, you are in fact indorsing it. The reality is that like most White institutions, Metmuseum attempts to hide or confuse the fact that the ancients were Black people. To me, that is a very important point.
I'm not too sure if you went through the entire site, but these definitely look African to me, and there are many many more like it.
Statue of Queen Ahmose-Nefertari, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Ahmose, ca. 1550–1525 B.C. Egyptian
Sculptor's model of the head of Akhenaten, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten, ca. 1349–1336 B.C. Egyptian
Relief of Queen Nefertiti, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.
Head of Amenhotep III, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Egyptian
Head of Tutankhamun, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Tutankhamun, ca. 1336–1327 B.C. Egyptian
Head of Queen Tiye, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1388–1340 B.C. Egyptian
Head of Amenmesse, New Kingdom, Dynasty 19, reign of Amenmesse, ca. 1203–1200 B.C. Egyptian
Osirid figure of Merneptah, New Kingdom, Dynasty 19, reign of Merneptah, ca. 1213–1203 B.C. Egyptian
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"The most remarkable early evidence of symbolic activity in Africa comes in the form of the recent find of engraved ochre plaques, such as this one, from Blombos Cave on the southern coast of Africa (Fig. 10). This is an unequivocally symbolic object, even if we cannot directly discern the significance of the geometric design that the plaque bears; and it is dated to around 70,000 years ago, over 30,000 years before anything equivalent is found in Europe.
To evidence such as this can be added suggestions of a symbolic organization of space at the site of Klasies River Mouth (Fig. 11), also near the southern tip of Africa, at over 100,000 years ago. Pierced shells, with the strong implication of stringing for body ornamentation, are known from Porc-Epic Cave in Ethiopia at around 70,000 years ago. Bone tools of the kind introduced much later to Europe by the Cro-Magnons, are found at the Congolese site of Katanda, dated to perhaps 80,000 years ago. Blade tool industries, again formerly associated principally with the Cro-Magnons, are found at least sporadically at sites in Africa that date to as much as a quarter of a million years ago. Also in the economic/technological realm, such activities as flint-mining, pigment-processing and long-distance trade in useful materials are documented in Africa up to about 100,000 years ago. These and other early African innovations are reviewed by McBrearty and Brooks (2000).
Even taken together, these developments do not constitute as visually impressive a record as that compiled by the Cro-Magnons in Europe. But it is a highly significant one, and it leaves little doubt that the first stirrings of the human capacity were felt in Africa, whence all major innovations in human evolution appear also to have come. And the nature of this African record also suggests that the process of discovery of the human capacity was not a sudden event but—in modern cultural terms at least—a gradual one. For it seems that the myriad uses of the new human potential that had presumably emerged with the origin of anatomical Homo sapiens were sequentially discovered over a long period of time. Which is hardly surprising, for even today we are continuing to find new uses to which our remarkable underlying capacity can be put."
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