CHURCH OF EGYPTOLOGY
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Egyptology is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the 4th century AD.
WERE SOLUTREANS IN ANCIENT AMERICA EGYPTIANS?
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Yes, according to Bill Tiffee, whose article on Solutreans in America.
Volume 29 of the series EPIGRAPHIC SOCIETY OCCASIONAL PAPERS. Titled “Were Ancient Egyptians the Solutreans Who First Settled America?” the new study, he says, “looks at the possibility that the Solutreans who first settled America were from Egypt, and that the genetic marker X is found in the highest concentrations among the Druze (who migrated from Egypt 1,000 years ago)and the descendants of the Moundbuilder Native groups including the Sioux and Algonquin and possibly the Cherokee.”
We have previously suggested that the Cherokee incorporate both Greek and Egyptian DNA. Chapter 3 of Donald Yates’ new book OLD WORLD ROOTS OF THE CHEROKEE is devoted to the DNA story of the so-called “anomalous” Cherokee lines, including haplogroups T and X.
Several prominent scholars have argued that Europeans known to archeologists as the SOLUTREANS of France and Spain around 18,000 years ago were the first to settle the Americas. Tiffee examines the similarities between Solutrean and Clovis or Paleo-Indian stone technology and reconstructs the Solutrean culture in Egypt beginning 24,000 years ago (p. 119). He links ancient Egyptians with genetic marker E-M78, mitochondrial haplogroup X, Tula and the Spiro Complex mounds in Oklahoma, among other North American sites. He also discusses the Great Flood of about 10,000 years ago, the legends surrounding Osiris and the rise of agriculture in southern Turkey (Gobekli Tepe).
“Perhaps,” he concludes, “Egyptologists need to rethink their paradigms of ancient Egypt. And perhaps modern Native American descendants of the Moundbuilders, the Algonquin groups, Sioux, Cherokee, Chickasaw (and other Native cultures closely related to mound-building) need to reconsider where their most ancient ancestors came from (129).”
In DNA Consultants’ Cherokee DNA study, “Anomalous Mitochondrial DNA Lineages in the Cherokee,” as well as numerous blog posts since 2009, it was reported that haplogroups U, T, K, J, N, X and L are found in Cherokee descendants in frequencies mirroring those of Egypt.
A practitioner of the discipline is an “Egyptologist”. In Europe, particularly on the Continent, Egyptology is primarily regarded as being a philological discipline, while in North America it is often regarded as a branch of archaeology. The first explorers were the ancient Egyptians themselves. Thutmose IV restored the Sphinx and had the dream that inspired his restoration carved on the famous Dream Stele. Less than two centuries later, Prince Khaemweset, fourth son of Ramesses II, is famed for identifying and restoring historic buildings, tombs and temples including the pyramid.
