THEEgyptologist E. Amélineau from the Collège de France, undertook enormous excavations in the region of Abydos (southern Egypt). His wish was to discover the population from the south, who had founded Egyptian civilization, under the leadership of Narmer (the unifying pharaoh of Upper and Lower Egypt, around 3200 BC. The results of his excavations have lifted the veil on one of the most important pages in human history: the epic of the Anou people.
Thus, at the end of his work, Amélineau declared:
"From the various Egyptian legends, I have been able to conclude that the populations established in the Nile Valley, were Negro race, since the goddess Isis is said to be born in the form of a black red woman, that is to say , as I explained with the coffee-au-lait color that some Negroes have, whose skin seems to have metallic copper reflections " (extract from "Prolegomena to the Study of Egyptian Religion, 1916, Ed Leroux)
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