Queen Cleopatra VII: Only Part-Afrikan?

"Upcoming BBC-One Documentary Says Cleopatra was Part-African"

"You know when whites (mostly Europeans) start talking this way, after blacks have been insisting forever, jaws drop on the other side of the pond. That’s what happened when the Leakeys established that the first men walked out of Africa, not Europe (although some are now trying mightily to find out whether China is older). It must be that time: a black president, Jefferson acknowledged as the father of Sally Hemings’ children and now Cleopatra being acknowledged as having African ancestry…all these books are going to be rewritten.

Hilke Thuer of the Austrian Academy of Sciences studied the remains of Cleopatra’s sister, the royal Arsinoë IV, taken from her tomb in Ephesus, once a Greek colony in what is now Turkey. Arsinoë (pronounced “Ar-see-noi”) lost the power struggle between herself and the Queen when Marc Antony–by this time Cleopatra’s husband–had her whacked on the steps of the Temple of Artemis. Arsinoë was exiled there by Julius Caesar after being paraded through the streets of Rome in triumph behind his chariot..."

Source:
http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/here-we-go-again-bbc-one-documentary-says-cleopatra-was-part-african

Queen Cleopatra VII (51 - 30 BC)

"Cleopatra VII - 'Cleopatra, Thea Philopator, Philadelphus, Thea Neotera, Regina Regum Filiorum Regum' - was the 16th ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty, reigning over Egypt from 51-30 BC, during the Ptolemaic period. She became co-regent with her 10-year-old brother Ptolemy XIII at the age of 17, and following his death (aged 14) in 47 BC during the civil war she then married her younger brother Ptolemy XIV, who was only 12 years old. This meant she effectively ruled alone..."

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/cleopatra_vii.shtml

"Is the mummy of Cleopatra buried in Paris?"

"Cleopatra VII, the great Cleopatra, the big nose of geopolitical power, is in Paris. It is a matter of justice, because what would be better for a woman like her? Specifically, she is buried in the gardens of the National Library of France, at its old headquarters of the Rue Vivienne, near the Louvre and the Palais Royal. That is what Juan Angel Torti, former Chilean journalist and possibly the most elegant retiree in Paris, has been sustaining for years. This former reporter for Agence France-Presse, whose headquarters is a stone’s throw from where the Egyptian queen supposedly lies, looks forward to the moment when archaeologists reach access to the end of the 120 meters long tunnel at the temple of Tabusiris Magna, 50 kilometers from Alexandria, where the sarcophagi of Cleopatra and Marco Antonio are allegedly located. That is expected to happen later this year, as announced by the Egyptian authorities. But Torti is certain they are in for a big disappointment: 'The tomb of Cleopatra is empty...'"

Source:
http://allaboutegypt.org/2008/08/is-the-mummy-of-cleopatra-buried-in-paris

Learn about the following terms:
▪ Quadroon
▪ Octoroon
▪ Quintroon
▪ Hexadecaroon
▪ Mulatto

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octoroon

In addition, see:
▪ Jim Crow Discrimination Laws (Tennessee enacted the first Jim Crow Law in 1875):
http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/jimcrowlaw1/p/jimcrowoverview.htm

▪ Examples of Jim Crow Laws:
http://academic.udayton.edu/Race/02rights/jcrow02.htm

▪ U.S. Supreme Court - Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) - "Separate but Equal" doctrine of segregation:
http://www.landmarkcases.org/plessy/impact_separate_equal.html

▪ Civil Rights Movement (1955-1965):
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955%E2%80%931968)

The Egyptian Museum (Cairo)

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, on Being the Elder Statesman

Author: Olivia Jaru

When the distinguished Egyptian museum in Cairo first opened its doors in 1902 it was designed to display around 35,000 objects. The air circulation was thought to be adequate for the 500 estimated daily visitors and natural lighting sufficient to illuminate the exhibited objects.

Little has changed over the last century, as far as the museum’s facilities are concerned, although its contents have exploded into a staggering 200,000 or so objects. This figure may or may not, include treasures in the basement which some say is worthy of excavation itself!

Many of the objects acquired over the years are the result of continuous excavations, which have taken place throughout Egypt since the opening of the museum and with the increase in visitors to around six to seven thousand per day, floor space in the building has itself, become a treasured commodity.

To accommodate these increases, Cairo is to have a Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), described in a government brochure as “a vision, a single source; faint yet filled with the strength to glow with the power of a thousand suns.” It is a majestic work in progress and will stand on the Giza Plateau in the shadow of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world – Khufu’s great pyramid. Superlatives aside, this 480,000 square meter site will house one hundred thousand of Egypt’s most unique ancient treasures, fifty thousand of which have already been chosen, many from the present Egyptian museum.

The transportation of one hundred thousand irreplaceable ancient objects from one museum to the other is positively ‘mind boggling’ and must surely pose a logistical nightmare for the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA). The removal into storage of just one item in 2006, the eighty three ton, 3,200 year old statue of Rameses II, from the front of Cairo’s main railway station, took nine snail-paced hours to transit the city, during the dead of night, using military-style procedures which cost around $1 million. The pink granite statue of Ramesses, in the meantime, remains protected, until he takes up his new commanding position in the Atrium of the Grand New Museum (GEM). Other items destined for display at GEM, will be inspected, documented and issued with a health card. If they require restoration treatment this will be carried out in one of Gem’s new underground conservation laboratories, after which they will be stored.

A “vital link towards averting disaster” during the ‘big move’ has been the introduction of a new database, currently in progress. The idea of a digitized database was first proposed by Gary Scott of the American Research Center in Egypt and Dr. Janice Kamrin, Egyptological Consultant to the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Cairo. The plan was approved by Dr. Zahi Hawass, the SCA’s head, along with museum curators, and funded by ARCE/USAID and put into action at the museum a couple of years ago by Dr. Kamrin.

Before the database, there was no standardized approach to registration. Any museum-based research was carried out via the ‘Object Register Books’ or reference library. The handwritten register books, are, themselves historical catalogues containing information, such as the description of an object, where it was found and by whom. Some of the earliest entries date back to 1858 (around 7,000) with the very first entry marked as JE1, a small standing statue of the goddess Isis with hands by her side and throne on her head - found at Saqqara.

According to Egyptologist Elina Nuutinen from the Registrars and Collections Department, the books have now been photographed, which means the copies can be handled for transcription purposes, rather than the extremely fragile originals.

Apart from the small team of Egyptologists and registrars involved in the Database Project, there is also the Volunteer Project, overseen by Elina Nuutinen. Volunteers from all over the world, including Egyptologists, students and egyptophiles whose work is connected to the subject, are attracted to the musty corridors of the Egyptian museum. It is hugely rewarding for those who are committed, although the fainthearted should not apply!

According to Dr. Kamrin 134,000 transcriptions had already been transferred to the database by May of this year, just over half-way! The project has received two more years of funding from the Andrew W. Mellor Foundation and has just taken on two more Egyptologists to help with the registering of artifacts. Once collected, the information in the database will form the basis for a new standardized Collections Management System which, says Dr. Kamrin “will bring this pre-eminent institution into the new century.”

The Grand Egyptian Museum “ is a decades-old dream’ linking ancient and modern Cairo,” but let’s not forget the grandeur of the present Egyptian Museum in Cairo, it is not retiring yet It will still stand in Midan el Tahirir looking just a little more like the dignified elder statesman.

About the Author:

Researcher/writer Ancient Egypt.

Article Source: ArticlesBase.com - The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, on Being the Elder Statesman

Codex Sinaiticus

"1,600-year-old version of Bible goes online
Technology brings one of oldest cultural artifacts accessible to everyone..."

Full Story -
Reuters
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25785089

Editorial Note:
One should ponder how the Codex Sinaiticus compares and will be compared with the Aramaic, Coptic, Latin, Syriac, etc. versions (i.e., interpretations).

Truth Be Known

"Truth Be Known
religion spirituality mythology archaeology history astrotheology archaeoastronomy
online since 1995"

http://www.truthbeknown.com

Hermeticism: "As Above, So Below"

As above, so below,
As without, so within,
As in the universe, so in the soul.

Excerpted from:
The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus (a.k.a. Smaragdine Table, Tabula Smaragdina, or The Secret of Hermes)
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Endnote

Also reference the Universal - Cosmic Laws:
 Law of Attraction
 Law of Cause & Effect (Karma, Intention-Manifestation)
 Law of Death & Rebirth (Resurrection)
 Law of Nature (chi, circadian rhythms, biorhythms, radionic vibrations, orgone energy, bioenergy, chakra frequencies, Ley Lines, etc.)
 Law of Opposites (Yin-Yang, Tai-Chi, I-Ching)
 Law of Planetary Retrograde Motion
 Law of the Moon & Lunar Phases

"Pan, Muse of Nature"

PAN, MUSE OF NATURE

Great Pan, we hear you
Piping in the meadows...
You are father to the animals,
Consort to lithe Diana
And a Muse of Mother Nature.

Oh dance before the Moon
Skyclad in your rites,
For Pan and Diana join us
This glorious Beltane night!

Son of mischevous Hermes,
With beautiful, sensuous voice
Kind eyes, and merry laughter;
Bring fairies and nature spirits
To dance with us tonight.

Oh, dance before the Moon
Skyclad in your rites,
For Pan and Diana join us
This glorious Beltane night!


© Copyright 4/29/08
Beth Clare Johnson
(Mystic Raven)


*NOTE: If you wish to say this in a ritual, just
change it from Beltane to 'Full Moon' night, or
whatever works best.

The Rosetta Stone

In the case of Ancient Egyptian archaeology, the Rosetta Stone has been one of those rare finds indeed. The stone itself is a large stele (slab or block) of black basalt (a hard, black volcanic igneous rock most commonly found in the Earth’s crust formed from molten, volcanic activity) measuring 3 feet 9 inches by 2 feet 4 inches wide by 11 inches thick (or 118 x 77cm) or 3 feet 9 inches in length and 2 feet 4.5 inches in width (or 114 x 72 x 28cm) as some sources have provided. Other sources claim that the stele was formed of granite.

The Rosetta Stone’s remains were found to be inscribed in three parts and in three ancient scripts:

Hieroglyphs (hieroglyphic), Egyptian Demotic (a cursive form of Ancient Egyptian writing also called Hieratic), and Ancient Greek. The stone had been carved and inscribed by Egyptian priests (and possibly priestesses), in 196 BCE, with a decree praising the great and spiritual works of Egyptian Pharaoh (King) Ptolemy V during his reign from 203 to 181 BCE.

It is claimed that the stone was discovered or unearthed by one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s military officers of the Engineering Corps, in July of 1799, during an invasion of Egypt by the French. As the story goes, the stone was partially buried in the mud during the excavation of a fort in the nearby village of Rashid (Rosetta)—near the city of Alexandria in Lower Egypt. The previously demolished fort, assumed to have been caused by Napoleon’s invasion, was to be rebuilt due to the discovery of the stone. From there, the stone was named after the village of Rosetta. Then the Rosetta Stone was later seized by the British, among other antiquities collected by the French, and was presented by King George III (1738-1820) to the British Museum in 1802. This stone became the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics and a foundation for the study of modern Egyptology.

The significance of the Rosetta Stone is based on the Egyptian hieroglyphics being accompanied with the Greek inscriptions which could be more readily translated and understood. A third inscription on the stone was written in the Demotic or Egyptian cursive script developed much later in Egyptian history—this script was used almost exclusively by Sem Priests (or sem), Male Servants of God (or hem netjer), Female Servants of God (hemet netjer) High Priests (hem netjer tepey), Lector Priests (kheri heb), Wa’eb Priest (or wa’eb), and Scribes (or sesh) for secular writings and documents.

Since the inscriptions on the Rosetta Stone were difficult to translate, distinguished French linguist, Egyptologist, and professor Dr. Jean-Francois Champollion (living in France) decided to undertake the translation along with the distinguished British physicist and linguist Dr. Thomas Young (living in Britain) in 1814. Dr. Champollion's knowledge of the Greek and Coptic (the “final” evolution of the Egyptian language) was a major key in deciphering the Rosetta Stone. The Coptic language is a more recent evolvement of the much older Demotic script; back and forth comparisons and analyses were made between the two languages to assist in the translation of the Demotic portion of the stone. Again, other scholars and researchers claim that this project began in 1822.

Furthermore and according to some scholars and researchers:

The credit as to who first discovered and unlocked the method(s) of deciphering and reading the symbolic as well as spoken meaning of hieroglyphs is claimed for both Young and Champollion. A heated controversy over has been waged for many years regarding this matter. It has also been stated that some view that Young and Champollion secretly and simultaneously, and independently of one another solved the many secrets of the Rosetta Stone.

Many scholars of Ancient Egyptian history, archaeology, and Egyptology have attempted to translate the inscriptions on the Rosetta Stone and used the Greek language inscriptions as a guide to the stone’s decipherment since Young and Champollion or vice versa. However, there is no mention of the research produced and contributed later by the distinguished Senegalese Physicist, Egyptologist, Anthropologist, Sociologist, Historian, and Professor Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop (1923-1986).

Another truth and treatise for another time. To this day, the Rosetta Stone resides in the British Museum.

~ Dr. K.A. Sahure, Msc.D, D.D.

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