The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . , Negroes and Libyans—as clearly distinguish-able in these paintings and sculptures of from fourto six thousand years ago as the same types are the question, To what race do the Egyptians be-long? still remains open. Ethnologists and an-thropologists have decided after long study ofskulls of mummies that they belong to the Cau-casian race. It is now generally believed thatsome thousands
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . , Negroes and Libyans—as clearly distinguish-able in these paintings and sculptures of from fourto six thousand years ago as the same types are the question, To what race do the Egyptians be-long? still remains open. Ethnologists and an-thropologists have decided after long study ofskulls of mummies that they belong to the Cau-casian race. It is now generally believed thatsome thousands of years before the Christian erathe nation which afterward inhabited the Nilevalley set out from Asia, and journeyed westward,crossing the Isthmus of Suez; entered Africa andsettled upon the banks of the Nile, and foundedthere a mighty kingdom. They are believed tohave been kindred with other races of Southwest-ern Asia, such as the primitive Chaldseans and theSouthern Arabs. In Gen. x :i, 5, 6, where the tableof nations is mentioned, it is stated: These arc thegenerations of the sons of Noah; Shem, Ham, andJapheth: and unto them were sons born after theflood. By these were the isles of the Gentiles. A Nile Farm. at the present day. No one can look at thesesculptures upon the Egyptian monuments, oreven the facsimiles of them as given by Lep-sius, without being convinced that they indi-cate even at that remote period a difference ofraces so great that long previous ages must havebeen required to produce it. Professor RudolphVirchow, the distinguished German scientist, says:I thought that I could obtain some evidences ofthe change of the Egyptians in historic time, bycomparative investigation of the living with the re-mains and likenesses of the dead. I return withthe conviction that so far as historical and pre-historic evidences reach, so far as man has beendiscovered, ancient Egypt and its neighboringlands have not essentially changed their popula-tions. All that we are al
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