Egypt in Africa Book

	Foreword	11
	Acknowledgments	13
	Introduction	15
	African Prehistory and Human Evolution	20
	The Geographical Origins and Population Relationships of Early Ancient Egyptians	23
	Ancient Egyptian as an African Language, Egypt as an African Culture	25
	Saharan Rock Art	28
	The Predynastic of Egypt: Africa's Prelude to Civilization	31
	Early African Cultures: An Afrocentric Perspective	33
	The Origins and Development of Ancient Nile Valley Writing	34
	The Beast of Kings: Male Lion Imagery and Kingship in the Ancient Nile Valley	66
	Masking in Sub-Saharan Africa	68
	The Case for Ceremonial Masking in Ancient Egypt	71
	The Case Against Extensive Masking in Ancient Egypt	75
	Body Art in Africa: Painting, Tattooing, and Scarification	78
	Tattooing and Skin Painting in the Ancient Nile Valley	81
	Scarification in the Nile Valley from Antiquity to the Present	84
	Circumcision and Male Initiation in Africa	88
	An Outline of Nubian History	92
	The Qustul Incense Burner and the Case for a Nubian Origin of Ancient Egyptian Kingship	95
	Interaction between the Nubian A-Group and Predysnastic Egypt: The Significance of the Qustul Incense Burner	98
	King Taharqa of Kush	101
	The Diversity of Indigenous Africans	104
	The Physical Characteristics of Egyptians and Their Southern Neighbors: The Classical Evidence	106
	Two Tomb-Wall Painted Reliefs of Ramesses III and Sety I and Ancient Nile Valley Population Diversity	109
	Are Africans African? Scholarship Over Rhetoric and Propaganda, Valid Discourse on Kemetic Origins	112
	European Racism Regarding Ancient Egypt	116
	Lenders to the Exhibition	118
	Exhibition Components	119