Hi Ray.

drrayeye Wrote:
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> Hi Lee,
>
> You've got a mixture of "unusual" people living
> near the fertile crescent region of the Middle
> East between 6000-9000 BC who may have made their
> way into Egypt in later years?

Various types of elongated skulls start popping up c. 8000-7000BC and from about c. 6000BC onward they become increasingly common, namely by way of the proliferation of Ubaid culture throughout greater Mesopotamia. Petrie discovered Mesopotamian style Naqada II burials near Abydos, c. 3400BC, with the some the remains having large elongated skulls and robust skeletons, part of what he dubbed the "Dynastic Race". If you are interested, I ramble on about some of this stuff here: Lizard Men, Cro-Magnon, Elongated Skulls, Malta, and Fat Ladies
More about Egypt:
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Skull attributed to Sanakht, supposedly Djoser's brother c. 27th century BC:

"You could beat a cat with that jaw bone. Reportedly he was unusually tall with robust skeleton."
Legends of Djoser also say he was an unusually large man.

> Looks like early stages of an interesting
> hypothesis.

I think the skeletons speak for themselves. Where the hypothesis enters is what does it all really mean?



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 27-Apr-17 15:32 by Thanos5150.