Knowledge Things we did first 👉Ancient Egypt is the first major civilization in Africa for which records are abundant. It was not, however, Africa’s first kingdom. On a March 1, 1979, The New York Times carried an article on its front page with the headline: Nubian Monarchy Called Oldest. In the article, journalist Boyce Rensberger reported: ”Evidence of the oldest recognizable monarchy in human history, preceding the rise of the earliest Egyptian kings by several generations, has been discovered in artifacts from ancient Nubia… The discovery is expected to stimulate a new appraisal of the origins of civilizations in Africa, raising the question of to what extent later Egyptian culture derived its advanced political structure from the Nubians. The various symbols of Nubian royalty that have been found are the same as those associated, in later times, with Egyptian kings.” The artifacts, including hundreds of fragments of pottery, jewelry, stone vessels, and ceremonial objects such as incense burners, were initially recovered from the Qustul cemetery by Keith C. Seele, a professor at the University of Chicago. Bruce Williams, a research associate at the University of Chicago said it was the picture on a stone incense burner that indicated it was the tomb of a king. Williams added that “the majestic figure on the incense burner is the earliest known representation of a king in the Nile Valley. His name is unknown, but he is believed to have lived approximately three generations before the time of Scorpion, the earliest-known Egyptian ruler. Scorpion was one of three kings said to have ruled Egypt before the start of what is called the first dynasty around 3050 B.C.
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