Discovering Oldest Monarchy to Origins of Civilization in Africa
Agencies – Sudan Events
Evidence of the oldest recognizable monarchy in human history, preceding the rise of the earliest Egyptian kings by several generations, has been discovered in artifacts from ancient Nubia in Africa…
The discovery is expected to stimulate a new appraisal of the origins of civilization in Africa, raising the question of to what extent later Egyptian culture may have derived its advanced political structure from the Nubians…
The various symbols of Nubian royalty that have been found are the same as those associated, in later times, with Egyptian kings…
The new findings suggest that the ancient Nubians may have reached this stage of political development as long ago as 3300 B.C., several generations before the earliest documented Egyptian king…”
The Badarian culture provides the earliest direct evidence of agriculture in Upper Egypt during the Predynastic Era…
It flourished between 4400 and 4000 BC, and might have already emerged by 5000 BC…
The Tasian culture is possibly one of the oldest-known Predynastic culture in Upper Egypt, which evolved around 4500 BC…
“The Tarifian, Badarian and Tasian cultures of Middle and Upper Egypt have strong ties with the Nubian/Nilotic pastoral tradition, as can be inferred, for instance, by the very similar pottery, economy and settlement pattern and by the latest findings in the deserts surrounding the Egyptian Nile valley” (Gatto 2011b, 2012a, b, 2013)
