hieroglyphed in the same Pharaoh’s reign, have long been familial
to Egyptologists; and thns Assyrian data and connexions with the
Kile are positively carried hack to the XVHth dynasty, and the sixteenth
century b . c.
But although, amid the ruins of Babylon itself, nothing has been
yet disclosed of an earlier date than N e b u c h a d n e z z a r , b. c. 6 0 4 ; and
no genealogical list, not to say contemporaneous monument, older
than b. c. 1 2 5 0 ,120 at Nineveh; hieroglyphics of an ancestor of Amu-
n o p h m . , viz., T h o tm e s m . , prove the existence of both Balylon and
Nineveh, as tributaries to the Pharaohs, at least one generation earlier,
or about 1 6 0 0 years b. c .121 This king, in an inscription more recently
translated by Birch, is said to have “ erected his tablet in Naharaina
(Mesopotamia), for the extension of the frontiers of Kami (Egypt).” 122
The sixteenth century b. c., according to Lepsius’s system of chronology,
touches the advent of Abraham and later sojourn of his grandson
Jacob’s children in the land of Goshen. Relations'of war, commerce,
and intermarriage, between the people of the Nile and those
from the Tigris and Euphrates, in these times, were incessant. Semitic
elements (as we shall see in the gallery of royal Egyptian portraits
further on) flowed from Asia into Africa in unceasing streams. The
Queens of Egypt, especially, betray
the commingling of the Ohaldaic
type with that indigenous to the
lower valley of the Nile; and, although
we shall resume these evidences,
the reader will recognize the
blending of both types in the lineaments
of Queen A a h m e s -N e f e r a k i
(Fig. 33), wife of Amnnoph I., son
of the founder of the XVHth dynasty,
about 1671 b . c. Hers is the most
ancient of regal feminine likenesses
identified;123 and of it Morton wrote,
“ Perhaps the most Hebrew portrait on the monuments is that of
Aahmes-Nofre-Ari.” 124
Having thns traced hack the Chaldaie type into Egypt before the
arrival of Abraham, first historical ancestor of the Jews, we have
proved the perpetuity of its existence, through Egyptian and Assyrian
records, during 3500 years of time, down to our day. But the
Jewish type of man must have existed in Chaldsea for an indefinite
time before Abraham. After all, he was merely one emigrant; and
his ancestral stock, at 1500 b . c., must have amounted to an immense
population. We hold, without hesitation, that 2000 years before
Abraham, there had already been intermarriages between the Ohaldaic
and the Egyptian species. No ethnographer hut will perceive, with
us, the Jewish cross upon Egyptians of the IVth Memphite dynasty,
3500 years b. c., say about 5400 years ago: and such amalgamations
must then have been far more ancient. Examine the following —
(Figs. 34, 35): we shall revert to them hy-and-hy.
Fig. 34.125
Fig . 35.
We shall yet be able to sketch out the durability of the cognate
Arabian race 2000 years earlier than I s h m a e l , son of Abraham, when
we deal with Egyptian primitive relations with Asia; and as, for
thirty-five centuries (not to say fifty-five, when the Chaldaie blood first
appears), Jews and Arabs have been monumentally coexistent and
distinct in type, therefore the demonstration of the existence of the
latter people 5500 years ago will naturally imply the simultaneous
presence of the former in their Mesopotamian birth-place; although
neither from Assyrian nor Hebrew records can we produce annals to
that effect—simply because such chronicles, if any were kept, have
hot reached our modem day.
Before quitting, for the present, Semitish immigrations into Africa,
we may allude to early Phoenician colonization of Barbary, as another
prolific source of comminglings between Chaldaie and Berber, or Ata-
lantic, types. These must have preceded, by centuries, the foundation
of Carthage, estimated at b. c. 878; and, in those days (the camel not
having been introduced into Africa before the first or second century
b. c.), the Sahara desert being absolutely impassable, the Atalan-
tidae of the Barbary coast held no communication with Negro races
of inland Africa. The subject is discussed in Part H. of this volume.
The illiterate advocates of a pseudo-negrophilism, more ruinous to
the Africans of the Hnited States than the condition of servitude in
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