The Mediterranean Race a Study of the Origin of European Peoples
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Egyptologists only agree in believ- ing that this land of Punt must be placed to the south of Egypt, either in Somaliland or in southern Arabia, or in a region including both lands, as Flinders Petrie, Sayce, and others incline to think. Sayce- considers that the Egyptians are a branch of the so-called Caucasian race, like the Semites, but ^ Africa, Turin, 1897, cap. I. 2 Races of the Old Testament, chap, v. , London, 1891 ; cf. Flinders Fetrie, History of Egyp, vol. I. , pp. 11-13, London, 189...4. THE AFRICAN ORIGIN OF THE EGYPTIANS. 85 beloncrine to the Hamitic stock, and that because Mizraim was a descendant of Ham. He believes that the ruddy skin of the Egyptians, as represented on their monuments, is due to the action of the sun ; he believes that they are of the same race as the men of Punt, also represented of a brick-red colour on the monuments. The people of Punt, according to Sayce, came to Africa from Arabia. He accepts the ultimate unity of origin of the Semites and the Hamites, an opinion to which many incline to-day, and this naturally leads to the conclusion that the Egyptians, as well as all the other Hamitic peoples, came from Asia.
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