The Arab League, the Middle East’s equivalent of The United Nations, officially defines an Arab as being “a person whose language is Arabic, who lives in an Arabic-speaking country, and who is in sympathy with the aspirations of the Arabic-speaking peoples.” Since modern Egypt has an Arabic-speaking population of eighty-six million people, making it by far the most legitimate candidate, if one goes by The Arab League’s definition, to be regarded as the quintessential “Arab State”. In places we moved fast, hopping on the historical landscape to avoid getting bogged down in unnecessary detail. GrahamHancock.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to products on Amazon. He became especially interested in this and extended his study … So the Reality they created that appeared at the time to be sacred and in harmony fell into disorder and chaos. But this is imagination based on prevalent research showing that the first settlers in Egypt were most likely black African coming from the Sahara, the latter once a fertile savannah with plenty of hunting game and grazing land for cattle, but then a drastic climate change around 5000 BCE began to alter the Sahara into a desert, finally reducing it into a super-arid, uninhabitable desolation. “An examination of the cultural occupations of Egypt over the past two millennia and how we can return to the sacred harmony of ancient Egypt. AoM for Mar 2021, See the Click on any image for a larger version. GrahamHancock.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to products on Amazon. Graham Bruce Hancock is a British writer and journalist. With those who is been mesmerized, Many a year has come and gone but progress much is slowly on And nature’s pain she hides to stain cuz everybody is going insane The only the only thing that will remain are the roll right stones… Let us note that it is after 642 CE that the name of the country was changed to Misr. Today the world refers to the long and narrow fertile strip running from the border of Sudan in the south to the shores of the Mediterranean in the north, as “Egypt.” This name is universally accepted as being true and correct for this country. If the “m” was a prefix meaning “of” or “from” or “belonging to”, then Masr could mean “of Osiris”. Egypt: The Pyramids. * We, however, call them the “Star People”, a name befitting the ceremonial sites they left in the Sahara –stone circles, tombs and megalithic structures having astronomical alignments to the sun and stars— which attest to their fascination and great reverence for the cosmos and the hope of an afterlife in it. So the Semitic-speaking peoples and even some of the Indo-European nations further north (such as the Hittites) knew Egypt as Musri, Misri, or Mizra. We are, of course, navigating in the realm of our imagination. 5 March 1948 (age 73) in Alexandria, Egypt) is a Belgian author and lecturer, perhaps best known for the fringe Orion Correlation Theory regarding the Giza pyramid complex. Graham Hancock & Robert Bauval – THE MESSAGE OF THE SPHINX 5 To the memory of my father Gaston Bauval, who rests in the land of Egypt. The Beauty of Egypt Galleries. 95. When Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet, he pondered on the violent feud between the noble families of the Capulets and Montagues and their obsession with their name. .”8 Imagine now Egypt untouched by human hands. Thanks to Troy for sending this in. These names tally with the notion that the earliest settlers of the Nile Valley were Negroid Africans who came from the Sahara around 5000 BCE. ... ©2003-2021 Graham Hancock GrahamHancock.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to products on Amazon. For it was only the correct name and its proper utterance that made vocal the soul of the object or person so named. It will be seen, therefore, that as we put down our words, the hand was guided at times with our intellects and at other times with our hearts. To forget a name was to make it ‘non-existent’ . [x/p /r/holofractal] Imagine a lush and fertile green valley with a broad river gently flowing through it. But we did not want our book to be that way. Graham Hancock reads ‘The Lament of Hermes’. Today the term is used to encompass most of the Middle East and the Levant. . The name, therefore, would then read “Land of the Black-skinned” or simple “Black Country”. I have read a number of Graham Hancock’s books and enjoy […] Graham Hancock has spent more than a quarter of a century investigating lost civilizations. As I remember, doshret means red land (desert) and khemet means black land (Nile valley and delta) suggesting the words refer to geographic areas and not people. The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind - Ebook written by Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval. And although this search took us wandering through the nooks and dark alleys of Egypt’s immense past, we allowed ourselves maximum free rein to flash backwards and forwards, and stray here and there whenever it best served the purpose of our goal. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind. Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion. Thus an Egyptian living in Cairo may claim to live at Misr, meaning the city of Cairo and not the country itself. ven's Mirror, author Graham Hancock continues the quest begun in his international best-seller Fingerprints of the Gods: to rediscover the hidden legacy of mankind and to reveal that "ancient" cultures were, in fact, the heirs to a far older forgotten civilization and the inheritors of its archaic, mystical wisdom. To posit that the ancient Egyptians named their land in reference to skin tone is another example of the all too common trap of viewing others through one’s own frame of reference. Speaking or writing his/her ren gave ‘existence’ to a person, both in life but also for eternity—so long as that name was perpetuated in eternal stone—to be read and uttered by devout descendants or a mere passersby. Provides a revised portrait of the life of Muhammad, revealing his connections to the Jewish and Christian traditions. The Sumerians referred to themselves as ùĝ saĝ gíg-ga, phonetically uŋ saŋ giga, literally meaning “the black-headed people”. Exhausted, worn out from the long trek through the hot and arid desert, they gazed at it first with incredulity, then with untold elation. This prompted the English bard to ask the rhetorical question: “what’s in a name?” He then gave his reply by saying “that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”1 To an ancient Egyptian, however, such a concept would have been completely alien. His knowledge of this amazing realm is extraordinary and his insights into the true meaning of its esoteric symbolism and into its … by Eric Brown. Explores the golden civilization of ancient Egypt and its system of natural magic that birthed the Western Mystery tradition. This is a climb of the Great Pyramid of Egypt that my wife Santha and I made on the spring equinox 1996 together with our great friend Robert Bauval, author of the groundbreaking book The Orion Mystery. For those who have been mezmorized,Space age before my eyes Opening up disguise And guess I’ll wait whisper early dates. DVD $29.95 $ 29. 1995, Graham Hancock, 'Fingerprints of the Gods', pp. 3.5 out of 5 stars 7. The name Misr or Masr is used both for the country itself and, confusingly, also for the modern city of Cairo even though its official modern Arabic name is Al Kahira. Graham Hancock / JRE 417 Graham Hancock and Joe Rogan start the podcast talking about Graham’s recent trip to Turkey. The same climatic change, however, had the opposite effect on the Nile Valley, changing the torrent of the river into a gentle flow, and its fetid marches and swamps into fertile land ideal for cattle-grazing and growing crops. It’s as if for many the perspectives generated by current worldviews are so integrated that they have a very difficult time of shifting from it enough to assess clearly. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Yet it was also said that in his ability to see into the future he predicted that Egypt will eventually fall into the wrong hands, and so prophesied that on that day the gods will abandon her, and with them will also go her soul. In there, we are convinced, that we will find her soul and, hopefully, restore it to its rightful place. Perhaps it was constructed on such a massive scale to survive both the ravages of time and of destructive ignorance. Let us state from the outset that our book is not just a compendium on the history of Egypt, although we have covered those important historical parts that are relevant to our mission. ©2003-2021 Graham Hancock GrahamHancock.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to products on Amazon. And even then it began only after they encountered people with radical different complexions to their own. Returning to the term “Arab”, this has vague origins. Graham Hancock John Anthony West has taught me more about ancient Egypt than any other investigator of the mysteries. 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