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Will be gone for a month or so. Expect a whole lot of kermaposting, napataposting, puntposting, axumposting, barbarposting when I'm back.

Meroe is cool n all but we need trve Nubian patriots to march right into the funerary chapels of Kerma and take pictures of the frescos that we only have descriptions of.

this article is being shared to prove solomonic claims. first, it misreads the original study; "fst analyses show that the *egyptians* are closer than yemeni to ethiopians in their non-african component." second, original study ignored that saudis are closer than any levantine.

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That Old Kingdom Upper Egyptian can be used to model West Eurasian ancestry in Cushites as well as Copper Age Levantines supports an Afro-Asiatic minus Semitic urheimat around Dongola Bend - though a few centuries before arrival of KEB wave of Maghrebis carrying EEF ancestry.

Old Kingdom potter from Nuwayrat, 265km south of Giza and roughly contemporaneous to the building of the Great Pyramids, found to be a great genetic proxy for South Cushitic Pastoral Neolithic samples. Unpublished predynastic samples are rumoured to be more accurate.

Some commonalities in Cushitic music, from Ethiopia to Somali to Sudan: #1. The nomadic horse-trotting rhythm - both Hadandawa/Beja (Sudan) and Oromo (Ethiopia) music have almost the same rhythm. Compare the below...

(You can find my album influenced by Cushitic music and more broadly Sahelian/Horner music here) atrazi.bandcamp.com/album/the-fire…

Very interesting thread. I've been getting into ethnomusicology as of late, but there's very little to no literature on 'Cushitic' music so this is golden. Thanks.

The Kissar Lyre: the vestige of the melodies of the middle Nile and its wider expression in modern Cushitic groups today 🎶

Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Returning home victorious from a military campaign against the Danakil (Afar)

Important to add context that not all the dark figurines pictured here ethnically represent “Nubians”. Nubians, esp in later dynastic periods, were known to employ African mercenaries from deeper regions of the Sudan region. Most notably the “Yam” people who correspond to…