Egyptian type, which we shall endeavor to render more obvions
through lithographs that are genuine fac-similes of stamps made, on
the monuments themselves, by the hand of Lepsius, at Berlin.
Meanwhile, it is worthy of notice, that, in the ratio of our descent
from the sculptures of the IVth dynasty, through the Old Empire,
our conventionally-termed “ Chaldaic” type supplants the Miotic to
such an extent, that, under the New Empire, and among the aristocracy
of the land, it almost entirely supersedes the African type of incipient
times. The admixture, in these later ages, of snch Asiatic blood,
may be due to the so-called Hyksos ; who commenced, even before
the time of Menes, intruding upon, and settling in Egypt. Alliances
and intermixtures of races, similar to those seen at the present day,
have operated among nations in all ages, and everywhere that men
and women have encountered each other on our planet.
Eour instances may be consulted in Lepsius’s Denkmäler, of Egyptian
monarchs who have left at the copper-mines of Mt. Sinai, on Stelse,
inscribed with hieroglyphical legends, their bas-relief effigies; representing
each king in the act of braining certain foreigners : whose
pointed beards, aquiline noses, and other Semitish characteristics, combine
with the Arabian locality to identify them as Arabs., "We give
entire (Eig. 119, A) a specimen of the earliest Tablets—“Mjm-Shufu
Fig . 119.215
stunning an Arab-barbarian ; ” and the head of another smitten by
“ Senufru;” both kings of the IVth dynasty, during the thirty-fourth
century b. c.
The other two examples (by us not copied) are identical in style,
hut a little posterior in age; one being of the reign of king Shore,
(or ResTio) in the Vth, and the other of Merira-Pepi, in the Vlth
dynasty. A fifth example might he cited of the IVth, but it is of the
same Senufru mentioned above.216
Here then are represented Egyptian Pharaohs striking Asiatics;
and here, we are informed epistolarily by Chev. Lepsius, is the remotest
monumental evidence of two distinct types of man; although,
an analytical comparison of such antipodean languages as the ancient
Chinese with the old Egyptian, of the Atlantic Berber with the Medic
of Darius’s inscriptions, of the Hindoo Pali with the Hebrew of
Habbakuk, and a dozen others we might name, would result in establishing
for each of these distinct tongues such an enormous and independent
antiquity, as to leave not a shadow of doubt that all primitive
African and Asiatic races existed, from the Cape of Good Hope to
China, as far hack as the foundation of the Egyptian Empire, and
long before. I t is in the IVth Memphite dynasty, however, that we
find the oldest sculptural representations of man now extant in the
world.
In the above figures two primordial types, one Asiatic and the
other Egyptian, stand conspicuous. If then, as before asserted, two
races of man existed simultaneously during the IVth dynasty, in
sufficient numbers to be at war with each other, their prototypes
must have lived before the foundation of the Empire, or far earlier
than 4000 years b. c. H two types of mankind were coetaneous, it
follows that all other Asiatic and African races found in the.subsequent
XHth dynasty must have been also in existence contemporaneously
with those of the IVth, as well as with all the aboriginal
races of America, Europe, Oceanica, Mongolia—in short, with every
species of mankind throughout the entire globe.