Egyptian Civilization: Its Sumerian Origin and Real Chronology

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EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION
ITS SUMEHJAN ORIGIN &
H"EAL CHRONOLOGY
& SUMERIAN ORIGIN OF EGYPTIAN
HIEROGLYPHS
BY
L. A. WADDELL
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KIN(; NARMAR, 2nd king of tst Egyptian Dynasty
as portrayed in his Mesopotamian bas-relief
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EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION
ITS SUMERIAN ORIGIN ~
REAL CHRONOLOGY
AND SUMERIAN ORIGIN OF EGYPTIAN
HIEROGLYPHS
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
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PLATE I (Frontispiece.
A B
CONTEMPORARY PORTRAIT STATUE OF KING MENES
FOUNDER OF THE FIRST EGYPTIAN DYNASTY AS
MANIS-THE-WARRIOR, SUMERIAN EMPEROR
OF MESOPOTAMIA
c.2655B.C.
In alabaster, ! life-size. A,front view; B, back view,with Sumerian inscription
of his high officialdedicatingstatuetothe Sun-god. Foundat Susa in Elam, where
itissupposedtohave beencarriedofffrom Kish City ina raid. Now inthe Louvre.
(After D.P. x, PI. I.)
Note the eyeballs are formed of white limestone let into sockets and cemented
with bitumen; and the irises. now wanting, are supposed to have been formed by
inlaid bluelapis-lazulistone, as in othersocketedeyeballs in Sumerian andEgyptian
statuettesandfigurines aboutthis period. The beardwith shaven upper lip is also
noteworthy; andcomparewith Fig. 10, p. 39.
EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION
ITS SUMERIAN ORIGIN &
REAL CHRONOLOGY
AND SUMERIAN ORIGIN OF EGYPTIAN
HIEROGLYPHS
BY
L. A. WADDELL
LL.D••C.B.• C.I.E.
AUTHOR OF 11THE MAKERS OF CIVILIZATION IN RACE AND HISTORV/
11A SUMERoARVANIlDICTlONARV/' 11THE"ARYAN ORIGIN OF THE ALPHABET"
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PREFACE
"What were the People by whom it
(Egyptian Civilization) was developed,the
Country whence they came, the Race to
which they belonged,is to-day unknown."
-Sir G. MASPERO, Dawn of Civilization,
1922,45.
"In dealing with Egyptian Chronology it
must always be remembered that, com
parativelyspeaking,little is known about
it."-Sir WALLlS BUDGE, The Book of
KingsofEgypt, I, xlii.
IN spite of the advances in our knowledge of Ancient Egypt
which decipherment of many of the monuments of the old
Pharaohs has made possible, two basic questions of the first
magnitude still remain outstanding in as great uncertainty
as in the days of Herodotus. These are the question of the
Origin of the Civilization of the Country, and the question
of the Dates of its Kings and Dynasties.
As regards the former, opinions differ as to whether
civilization was indigenous or imposed from without. And,
although on the whole the tendency is towards belief that
the Egyptians, like so many other races both ancient and
modern, owed their culture to conquest by more advanced
and intrusive peoples, yet who the conquerors were and
when the invasions took place has remained unknown owing
to lackof evidence on which to base a judgment. And a like
absence of evidence as regards chronology has made the
datingoftheearly and mostof thelaterPharaohs an affairof
guesswork, and led equallyable andconscientiousinquirersto
fixtheperiod ofMenesandhis FirstDynastyatdatesdiffering
fromoneanotherby asmuchasovertwo millenniumsofyears.
In my recently published Makers of Civilization, I showed
incidentally the bearing upon Egyptian problems of my
collation of the Mesopotamian inscriptions and official
King-Lists of the Sumerians (the oldest known civilized
people) with the official King-Lists of the Early Aryans of
the " Caucasian race" in the Indian Puranas. And in the
present work I have sought to meet the requirements and
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expressed wishes of Egyptologists by supplying them with
a statement in full of the new evidence as to the real date
and origin of the Nile Valley Civilization and the historical
personalities and origin and real dates of its unknown
introducers and early developers, disengaged from the
extraneous matters with which the subject was necessarily
mixed up in the larger treatise. For all the latest excava
tions in Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley, further confirm
those discoveries.
What put me on the track of the new evidence was the
discovery that a great deal in the ancient Indian Epics and
Vedas regarding the Early Aryans, hitherto considered
fabulous is historic. Comparing the King-Lists of the Early
Aryans in the Puranas with the records of the Sumerian
Mesopotamian kings on their inscribed monuments and in
the official Mesopotamian King-Lists, I observed that the
two records, Early Aryan and Sumerian, are in entire agree
ment from the First Dynasty, Aryan and Sumerian, down
through the long period of over two thousand years to the
opening of the classic Greek epoch in Europe; and that the
identity was complete not only in the names, titles, order
of succession and exploits of the kings, but extended to
such minute details as the names of their consorts and sons,
and to the culture, language, writing, religion, symbolism,
arts and industries of the peoples over whom they ruled.
The official King-Lists, Indian and Mesopotamian, show
Menes and his predecessors and successors in his First
Dynasty in the same chronological order and position, with
the names and titles they bear in the Egyptian records.
The Sumerian Mesopotamian and Indus Valley script of
those kings is the same as that used by the pre-dynastic and
First Dynasty Pharaohs in their monumental inscriptions.
The Egyptian Hieroglyphs are discovered to be a slightly
modified conventional form of the Sumerian diagrammatic
picture-writing which came into use gradually during the
rule of Menes and his immediate successors, and to have
the same phonetic values as their parent picture-signs in the
Sumerian. Andthe radicalwords inAncient Egyptianare of
Sumerianorigin, though latertheybecameadaptedto a large
extent to the Semitic speech and idioms of the aborigines.
The above discoveries enable us to explain and definitely