The Weekly Comet

Bayard Taylor writing from Nubia in Egypt, says something with regard to the ancient Egyptians that runs counter to the testimony of eye witnesses. For instance, Herodatus who travelled in Egypt long before the birth of Christ, says that he found the Egyptians, not only with crisp and curly hair, but of a dark and swarthy complexion. We have no objection to have the building of the Pyramids, placed to the credit of the white race, since it can never be proven; but we refer to Herodatus to show the difference between him and Mr. Taylor. Here is what Mr Taylor says :

Those friends of the African race who point to Egypt as a proof of what that race has accomplished, are wholly mistaken. The only negro features represented in Egyptian sculpture are those of slaves and captives taken in the Ethiopian wars of the Pharaohs. The temples and pyramids throughout Nubia as far as the Dar Fur and Abysinia all bear the hieroglyphics of these monarchs, and there is no evidence in all the valley of the Nile that the negro race ever attained to any higher degree of civilization than is at present exhibited in Congo and Ashantee. I mention this not from any feeling hostile to that race, but simply to controvert the opinion very prevalent in some parts of the United States.

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