Ethiopia – What A Dubious Archaeological Finding?

ETHIOPIA – WHAT A DUBIOUS ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDING?

Nazret.com
07/01/08
MD

Recently I have read an article entitled: Archaeologists find queen
of Sheba’s palace at Aksum. The archaeologists from Hamburg Germany
do believe in finding an altar of ancient Judaism. On the contrary,
another group of German archaeologists have earlier presented their
excavations from Yemen and there was a televised show about the queen
of Sheba. Moreover, an English man has explicitly commented that the
queen of Sheba could not be found in Africa. How could then the group
led by Helmut Ziegert alleged to have discovered the palace of queen
of Sheba at Aksum?

Well and good let they assume she is from South Arabia. That doesn’t
matter. As the Arabian Peninsula was part and parcel of the African
continent till the coming of European colonialism and expansion. The
original inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula were black Africans and
spoke a Cushitic language. Pastoralists with longhorn-and shorthorn
type cattle occupied the Arabian Peninsula. The rock art of the
Hametic Longhorn type in Yemen is similar to that found in central
Sahara. Murdoc (1959) has correctly concluded that Cushitic-speaking
nomadic pastoralists migrated with their longhorn (Bos taurus) cattle
to Northeast Africa. According to Lenormant (1890), Diop (1974),
Hailu Habtu (1987), Obenga, Teshale Tibebu, Asres Yenesew (1943),
and Ayele Bekri (1997) a Kametic (Cushitic) empire existed throughout
Arabia. Besides that pharaoh Tuthmosis III (1479-1425 B.C) conquered
the Arabian Peninsula and Aksum annexed it twice to its African empire.

The truth of the matter is, that many of the so-called Ethiopianst
scholars, archaeologists and ethnologists have deliberately distorted
the African origin of the Ethiopian civilization and were spreading
hotchpotch just to undermine the Ethiopian role as torch bearer
of freedom and the only bastion of African independence. The
self-called Westerners make claim to own exclusively the ancient
Egyptian civilization by flatly rejecting the cultural, geographical,
historical and racial connections between Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia and
other parts of Africa.

The objective of the excavation is said to document the "orgins of
the Ethiopian state and the orthodox church." What a mess!!

Unlike many west European countries including Italy and Germany,
the Ethiopian state and people have a written history of more than
five thousands years. Ethiopia does not need any documentation. Thus,
it isn’t at all their business to excavate at the ancient holly city
of Aksum to distort and misinterpret. So far, there have been many
archaeological excavations at Aksum. Most of them are the die-hard
proponents of the "South Arabian origin

of the Ethiopian civilization." Without even a carbon dating they
have assigned very low dates not to negate the Euro centric world
order of the 19 th century.

The confused periodization of the Aksumite civilization has excluded
its predecessor the Punite and Daamite civilization. In fact, Aksum
is older than Memphis, Thebes, Napata, Athen, Rome, Jerusalem, and
Sana etc.

According to M. Gilbert who visited Ethiopia: There are no obelisks
either at Rome or in Egypt, which can be compared to those at Aksum,
whether as regards the workmanship or the height… The obelisks, in
my opinion belong to the dynasty contemporary, or perhaps, anterior,
to that of the pharaohs of Egypt.

And yet Anno Dilmann one of the followers of Hegel manufactured in his
discourse "uber die Anfänge des Axumitischen Reiches", the obelisks
of Aksum, the rock-hewn churches etc. were carved by foreign (Egyptian
and Greek) workers but not by Ethiopians. Little wonder in view of
these bigots black Africans are incapable of making their own history
and civilization. The Hegelian concept of history in the continental
Africa begins with the colonial settlers from Europe. The hegemonies
of Westerners are established by distorting the history of Africans,
Asians and Native Americans and by romantic philosophy.

The group from Hamburg perpetuates the same old story and confusion.

On the one hand, it has become an accepted "truth" that queen of Sheba
is from south Arabia (Yemen) and on the other hand her existence at
Aksum in the first milllenium B.C is flatly rejected. She is declared
the "legendary queen of Ethiopia" and Kibre Negest (The glory the
kings) the supreme myth.of Ethiopia’s Solomonic origins.

The Christian Aksumite Empire in the sixth century during the
reign of emperor Caleb was one of the four super powers, which was
able to protect the Monophysite world. So the Copts have composed
the substantial core of the Kibre Negest to glorify the Ethiopian
monarch of the period i.e. emperor Caleb, as heir to Solomon. This
is testified by the Armenian writer Abu Salih, living in Egypt in
the late twelfth century.

There are discrepancies between the "arrival of Judaism in Ethiopia"
and the queen of Sheba as ruler of South Arabia (Yemen). In fact many
Africans have customs in common with the ancient Hebrew nomadic pastor
lists. Circumcision was and is an Ethiopian and Egyptian ritual and
Moses leader and lawgiver of the Hebrew nomads was an Egyptian priest
educated in all Egyptian wisdom and science of medicine. The Hebrew
concept of creation as embodied in Genesis did not emerge before about
1000 B.C. The earliest Egyption civilization and theory of creation
appeared about 3000 B.C

Therefore, "Judaism" did not arrive to Ethiopia or Africa. The Exodus
is also from Africa to Western Asia. The most interesting books that
constitute the Old Testament such as Proverbs and Ecclesiastes were in
fact copy of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts namely the proverbs
of Amen-em Ope.

Ethiopia is one of the first countries, which were converted
to Christianity. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has combined the
teachings of the Old and the New Testament. The Orthodox Church of
Armenia, Ethiopia, Syria and India maintained the one nature of God
Eurocentriscts such as Adrian Hastings (1994) attribute this unique
nature of the Ethiopian church to "Hebraic Influence" especially from
the Hellenistic Judaism of Alexandria. He stated further that the early
Christianity in Alexandria developed within a highly Jewish context and
the practice of circumcision became established as a characteristic
of Egyptian Christianity. The apostles to Rome and Greece were all
Greek speaking Hebrews. Why then there was not Hebraic influence of
circumcision and the Ark of the Covenant in "European Christianity"? In
western Europe after the collapse of the Western Empire began the
erosion of the sacred imagined community. Subsequently Pseudotheology
and the so-called romantic philosophy developed instead of Hellenistic
Judaism. This resulted in Anti-Semitism and flagrant racism since the
eighteenth century and culminating in the Holocaust mankind’s tragedy.

It is reported that the cult of Sothis developed in Ethiopia with
the arrival of Judaism and the Ark of the Covenant at Aksum.

This assumption is sheer nonsense and is in contradiction with what
they have previously propagated about the Felashas. The Felashas (the
so-called Ethiopian Jew) were not accepted by Zionists as racially
"Jewish."

Thanks to the overthrow of the oldest traditional monarchy in the
world and the coming of the cold war into Ethiopia that the Felashas
were recognized as "Jew" for the sake of geopolitical strategies.

The question now to ask is, when and where did start the so-called
the cult of Sothis at Aksum?

The birth of our calendar Ancient Egypt and Ethiopians use the solar
calendar, which has a yearly cycle of twelve months, and it begins
in September after the end of the rainy season when the great Nile
River overflowed its banks and the flora of the Ethiopian highland
begins to bloom.

A precise astronomical determination of the day on which the brightest
of the fixed stars, Sirius, rose on the horizon together with the
sun and remained visible for a few moments until it faded with the
advance of dawn. This natural phenomenon was called the rising of
Sirius. Each of the twelve months consisted of thirty days. As the
year consisted of 365 days, the extra 5 days were added at the end of
the year as the birthdays of the great gods and observed as festivals
during which no work was done.

The priests of the Nile valley were also aware of still missing a
quarter of a day (365 1/ 4) days.

Ancient Ethiopians knew that it would take Sirius 1460 years (365* 4)
to get back exactly to the same point on the horizon. This is known
as the Sothic cycle. Sothic being the Greek name for Sirius.

The Greek borrowed the Egyptian solar calendar, art, architecture,
engineering, astronomy, mathematics, medicine and other sciences
almost two and half millennia later. The black people of the Nile
valley are the pioneer of science, medicine, geometry, law, astronomy,
architecture, agriculture, philosophy, etc.

The myth of Semitic Arabia

The "Semitic Arabian origin" and the "diffusion" of any other
civilization into the highlands of ancient Ethiopia were invented
to minimize the testimony of the splendour stelae of ancient Aksum,
its numerous historical artefacts, the dressed statues and foremost
to falsify its cultural, geographical and racial relationship with
Nubia and ancient Egypt along the Nile river from south to north. When
did civilization started in ancient Greece? Ethiopia and Egypt are
the cradle of civilization and mankind. The Greeks got later all
wisdom and knowledge from the Nile valley in Africa and the Middle
East. They continually recorded and passed to the late generation,
which they had learnt, orally from the learned men of Africa.

Martin Bernal’s Black Athena does corroborate theses facts that
Afro-Asiatic languages and the Nile Valley ancient civilization are
the fundamental basis of the Greco-Roman civilization. When ancient
Greece and its successor Rome count their civilization by centuries,
ancient Egypt and Ethiopia of Africa can count by millennium, and
the remains of that splendour now eclipse the remains of any other
country in the world.

Unlike ancient Egypt, the independent existence of the Ethiopian
nation since time immemorial in the in the heart of Africa is a thorn
in the flesh of all racists and colonial aspirants of the 19th century.

It would be better for all "archaeologists" to excavate the legendary
palace of king Solomon in Palestine rather than fabricating age-old
Eurocentric views on Africans. There has been neither archaeological
nor historical evidence for the existence king Solomon and his
palace. The Bible is neither a historical record of past nor an
ethnographic description.

On the other hand, the kings of Egypt and Ethiopia have left numerous
inscriptions to testify their existence in time and space.

The non-African dogmatic belief that the Sabean "Semitic colonists"
from the Arabian Peninsula are the creators of the Ethiopian
civilization, its culture, religion and language is the most pervasive
Eurocentric manipulation.

In the 19th century there was an ethnographic show of "noble savages"
in west European and North American metropolis. Black Africans,
red Indians especially Pygmies from central Africa, Zulus and Somali
children riding an ostrich were on show in many zoological gardens. As
the ethnographic exhibition reached it climax, the Ethiopian black
people led by Emperor Minelik won a decisive victory over the European
colonial power at the famous battle of Adwa in 1896. Thereafter,
Ethiopians were explained away to be "Caucasoid" white colonists from
southwestern Asia (Arabian Felix).

Since Ethiopia repulsed and resisted the scramble of Africa, Westerners
and their social engineers used science and pseudotheology to propagate
all sorts of anti-Ethiopian conspiracies such as the "Hametic and
Semitic" myths have been systematically fabricated. Any traces of
civilization on the African soil is claimed to be the brainchild of the
"Hametic super race." So the great wall of Zimbabwe was attributed to
be the work of ancient colonists of the Middle East. The "Hamaites
and the Semites" were assumed to be immigrants from the Middle
East. Wainwright (1949) and Jeffery (1954) propagated the once
commonly held idea that the monumental sites of the Great Zimbabwe
were produced by the nomadic Oromo (Galla) invaders from Ethiopia in
the ninth century.

Europeans of the eighteenth century such as Gobineau devised
a hierarchy of races in accordance with the theory of social
Darwinism. Thereby, ‘whites’ especially the Anglo-Saxon (Teutons) race
was placed in the phyla of ‘Caucasoid’ at the apex, the ‘Mongoloid
and Semite’ in between and the so-called ‘Negroid race’ at the
bottom of the ladder. Besides that the mythology of Indo-Germanic,
Aryan Herrenvolkism, was made up by some half-educated East Indian
company social engineers being called Orientalists just to exploit
and subjugate the Indian sub-continent

Occidental Christians who call themselves Catholic and the several
Protestant denominations have no difference in their theology. The
political fragmentation and the religious upheaval of the sixteenth
century are due to the power struggle between the Romance and
Germanic nations of Western Europe. It should not be forgotten that
the so-called Catholic crusaders of Western Europe in the 12-century
ransacked Constantinople, the metropolis of the Byzantine Empire.

The growth and global expansion of capitalism began with enslavement
of Africans, Asians and Americans. The Bible was then used to justify
enslavement of black Africans. According to some western theological
school the "curse of Noah" was the main cause for blackness but not
the melanin in the dermal tissue.

Zionists are using the fabulous story of queen of Sheba to steal
the Ethiopian unique cultural heritage. Consequently the Felasha
were converted to Zionism and displaced from the land of their
birth. The campaign of displacing has no end. Zionists are conspiring
to depopulate and uproot Ethiopian Christianity in the disguise of
Judaism. Orthodox Christian Agaus (Felasha Mura) are collected from
their villages to be lifted to Palestine. The Flashas who are now in
Israel are victims of racial abuses and are guinea pigs for bigoted
sociologists and anthropologists.

What is Semitic?

Semitic is a designation for a group of languages both in Africa
and Asia. Schloezer introduced the term. According to the Genesis,
people who spoke the Semitic languages are the decendants of Shem
the son of Noah. On the other hand, the term Cushitic is given to the
nations of kam, the son of Noah and the father of Cush. The Biblical
classification of nations is founded neither upon linguistic nor upon
‘race’. The term Hameto-Semitic was introduced by the famous German
Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius and is now replaced by Afro-Asiatic
language family. Afro-Asiatic languages originated from Ethiopia.

"Proto-Semitic" language speakers have lived in the Ethiopian
Rift Valley and plateaus since prehistory. In central and southern
Ethiopia, there are thousand obelisks with hieroglyphic signs. They are
widespread in southern and central Ethiopia extending from Gurageland
to Lake Turkana. Father Azias has studied these ancient monuments.

The "Semitic" family is divided into three branches: eastern,
northwestern and Southern. Arabic and Ethiopic (Geez) belong to
southern Semitic. Semitic speaking people are not from the same
race. For example different races such as black and brown speak the
Arabic language. On the other hand the Cushitic and the so-called
Ethio-semitic speaking people in Africa belong to the same race
(ethiopid race).

The languages of Africa in general and that of Ethiopia in particular
have been classified based on geography and racial basis. The
Semitic and Cushitic dichotomy is an occidental divisive hypothesis
masterminded by Leo Reinisch. In the age-old Ethiopian tradition it
does not exist The Ethiopian classical language Geez is classified
as the house of Kam. The son of Kam is Kush (Kusa, Kusayi). The
holly city of Aksum was founded by Kush the first son of Kam. Aksum
means the metropolis of Cushites. According to Aleka Taye the Agaw,
the Amahara, the Gurage, the Argoba and the Tigree people of Ethiopia
have a common ancestor.

Therefore, it is time to rectify the fake division of the Ethiopian
people into Cushitic and Semitic groups.

For example, the Amharic language cognates more than 70 % to the
Agaw language of central Ethiopia and yet Amharic is classified by
western "scholars" as "Semitic" and the Agaw language as " Hametic
or Cushitic." Geez is not a south Semitic language. It did not origin
from south Arabia but in the heart of Africa in the Nile Valley. Geez
is more ancient and more grammatically superior to Aramaic, Arabic
and Greek.

There has been a considerable difference of opinion among genuine
linguists as to the criteria to be applied when identifying an Ethiopic
(Geez) language as a Semitic. The late Soviet scholars A.B Dolgopolsky
and Igor Diakonoft did not classify Ethiopic as a "south Semitic". Geez
must have its own independent classification. Some characteristics,
which do not allow Geez to classify it into "Semitic" language: – the
indication of the vowels, – has no definite Article, – its grammar is
purely Kametic, – posses very hard sound like Qe, Ge, Te, etc – Geez
and all other related Ethiopian languages have a sharp distiction
between imperfect and subjenction – Geez is written from left to
right unlike the so-called Semitic scripts like Arabic and Hebrew.

True, Geez has come into contact with other neibouring languages such
as Aramaic, Acadian, Greek, Arabic, and Coptic etc. In this regard
the role played by Judaeo-Christian missionaries and merchants is
very significant. They had brought new vocabularies, which Geez has in
common with other languages. Geez did not originate from Sabean. Quite
contrary Sabean was derived from Hymaritic, a language that was
spoken in province of Ethiopia across the Uatur or the Red Sea. The
Sabean inscription found in Yemen is not older than 100 BC. The very
old inscription of Sabean emanated from the oldest city at Jeha in
ancient Ethiopia. Geez does not resemble Sabean in vocabulary, syntax
and proper name. Most of the inscription found Yemen is a contemporary
record of events during the Aksumite Ethiopia. Inscription written
in Geez and Sabean from Ethiopian Soil date back to 6th century B.C
The different ethnic groups and languages of Ethiopia have become a
guinea pig for western "scholars" who are using their art and science
of divisiveness. In the name of self-determination of ethnic groups
the ancient black nation has to be partitioned into Bantustans,
which would be vassal states loyal to westerners.

The Origins of the Ethiopian State The Ethiopian region extending
from East Africa to the Upper Egypt was settled in the early
Palaeolithic period. As a result of climatic change, the different
tribes of Ethiopia were forced to live in the savannas surrounding
the Nile. They become hunters, fruit gatherers and fishers. The
drying up of the savannah during Neolithic period resulted in mass
dispersion of the population to the different parts of Africa, the
Middle East and southwest Asia. Some Ethiopians migrated towards
the southern parts of Africa in the direction of Congo and Zambezi
basins and others went towards the west along the banks the river Oya
(Niger). In the most ancient time black people inhabited the northern
part of Africa and the Middle East. The Sumerians were black people
who lived in Mesopotamia. The indigenous inhabitant ants of the Indian
sub-continent, the Dravidians, the original inhabitants of Australia,
Tasmania, and Polynesia, New Zealand are all black people.

Population pressure resulted in the hunters to become
stockbreeders. This transition took place along the banks, valleys and
deltas of the rivers. The most ancient farming settlement of Africa
in the Nile Valley gave rise to the successive culture of the various
tribes of Africa. In the Nile valley and the Ethiopian plateau the
struggle for land and cattle ensued from the development the petty
states. From an aggregation of these states grew the ancient Ethiopian
state and civilization contemporary to ancient Egyptian. Ethiopians
have nothing to do with the so-called Sabean immigrants from Arabia.

The Greek historian Herodotus (480- 425 B.C) who visited Egypt
has described the relationship between the Ethiopians and the
Egyptians. They alone among mankind have practised circumcision since
time immemorial and others such as the Phoenicians and Syrians learnt
the practice from the Egyptians and Ethiopians.

According to Diodorus of Sicily, Greek historian, Ethiopia colonized
Egypt. At the beginning of the world Egypt was simply a sea but
the Nile carrying down vast quantities of loam from Ethiopia in
its flood waters, finally filled it in and made it part of the
continent Kamit or Kmt was the native name of ancient Egypt, which
means the black land. The Biblical Kam is most probably derived from
Kamit. Ancient Kamit and Ethiopia were part and parcel of the black
man’s civilization in the world. A genuine scholar of history cannot
separate ancient Ethiopia and Egypt. Racists have flatly asserted that
ancient Egyptians were whites and distorted the development of history
in the Nile Valley. They have no ears and eyes for everything, which
the black man did and does in the history of mankind. Time and again
it has been propagated in the name of science and history the theory
of "superior and inferior" races. The black race is categorically
characterised as uncivilized. And anything of African origin is
thought to be either imported or diffused from Europe or Asia. For
example Carlo Conti Rosisini one of the pseudoethiopianst claimed that
Treatise Zara Yakob and of Walde Heywat were the work of an Italian
Missionary named Giusto D’Urbino in the 19th century. Zera Yakob was
the famous Ethiopian philosopher in 17th century.

According to the hieroglyphic text an authentic civilization began as
early as 2500 B.C in Ethiopia. The successive Punt, Damat and Axumite
civilizations have their root in Africa (Jacqueline Pirenne, Du Bois,
Drsuilla Dunjee Houstone, Rodolfo Fatovitch, 1987).

Punt the Land of the Abasha Ancient Egyptians hieroglyphic records
of more than thirteen centuries (2500-1170 BC) bear the existence
of the country called PWNT (Punt) and its people called Abesha in
Northeast Africa. Punt was a holy land (Taneter) and was regarded as
an ancestral homeland of the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt.

In the 5 th Dynasty at the height of the Pyramid Age began the earliest
record on Punt during the reign of Sahure (2450 BC). Sixty years later
there is a record on the expidtion to Punt land led by Harhuf. He
brought back a dancing dwarf (denk). Pharaoh Pepi II (2270 BC) sent
an expidition to Punt.

During the reign of Senusert II one of the most interesting records
of that age was a group of 37 Aamu of Shu brought a tribute of
Kolh. The leader of the delegation leading a tamed ibex, his title
and name is before him heq setu Abasha, which means princes of the
hill country. Abasha means the father of a present. The inscription
of Wadi Hammamat from the XI Dynasty (2134-2040 B.C) records the
expedition to the holy land of Punt by the high offical Henu. Punt was
one of the countries supposed to be under the jurisdiction of Hathor,
the godess of beauty (nbt Pun). In the in script of the XII Dynasty
reads: uru nu pun, which means the chiefs of Punt greet you the king
of Kemet and the son of the nine nations (peoples). Horus had also
the nickname nb Pun (Lord of Punt).

The scotish traveller James Bruce in the 18 th centuries has seen
a stela inscribed in hieroglyphs sign at Aksum, which was dedicated
to Horus. The god Horus was son of Isis and Osris. The reigning king
was regarded as the living Horus. In ancient Egypt the king was not
a mortal, he was a god.

This stela was stolen and is now in Scotish Museum.

Queen Hatshepsut (1486-1468 BC) who declared herself the daughter Amon
and ruled as Pharaoh sent the famous Punt expidtion and erected the
two great oblisks at the Temple of Kranak. Besides that she built the
magnificently beautiful tomb and temple complex at Deir el-Bahri. The
voyage to Punt land was depicted in the entire south-end wall of the
Temple. Bas-relief shows the Punites and their chief named Parahu
and his wife Atiya.

The fleet brought back gums, myrrh, frankincense, Civet, baboon,
cattle, asses, ebony, balsam Ostrich feather, electrum, Panther skins,
rhino, Work people, gold, malachite, lapis lazuli Ebony, Giraffe,
spices etc.

Tuthmosis II (1490-1436 B.C) has twice received the products of
Punt. The trade expidtion was bilateral. The Punites undertake an
expidition via the Red Sea coast during the reign of Tuthmosis II and
Amenophis III (1391-1353 B.C) and this was depicted in the private
tomb-chapels of four high Thebean officials.

The expidition sent by Ramesses III (1184-1153 BC) to Punt is recorded
in the Great Papyrus Harris I.

The location of Punt and its geographical extent has been precisely
determined (K.A Kitchen, 1990). The Gulf of Aden and the Afar-Somali
coast have been discarded. Any non-African location of Punt had been
excluded once and forever.

The XXVI th Dynasty (715-664 BC) left us a valuable stela, which reads:
… Rain fall upon the mountain of Punt… rain was a scarcity in the
southern provinces… this month in which its rain was, when it was not
the season (for) it, even in the delta towns; your mother (the godess)
Neith had brought it for you – a Nile-flood to sustain your forces.

Rain falling in the mountains of Punt and the subsequent Nile
inundation into Egypt has shown that Punt was located in the
northwest Ethiopian highlands. The ebony (Dalbergia melanoxylm)
obtained from Punt was from the regions of northwester Ethiopia
(Gojam and Begemider).

The Abasha people of Punt did not come from anywhere; they are the
indigenous black, red and brown Africans since time immoral.

Bas-reliefs in Deir-al Bahari at Thebes depict the Ethiopians
cultivating myrrh and incense in the land of Punt. The people of Punt
belonged to the same race as Pharaoh of Egypt (Kemit). In ancient
Egypt there were four types of human races: red, yellow, black and
white (H. Brugsch, 1858)

Linguistic Relation

The ancient Egyptian language is related to many Ethiopian languages
such as Agaw, Amharic, Tigrigna, Kunama, Wolamigna, Keficho, Gonga,
Gafat and Geez. All have in common monosyllabic words. Above all, the
formation of the plural in Amharic is derived from ancient Egyption
language (W.Vyciciil, 1952). Many Egyptian words and grammer cognates
with Amharic, Geez, Tigrigna and Agaw For example: ATEB (land, region),
AT (queen, mistress; great lady), ATI (King, emperor) BER (door, Gate),
MUT (death), MEMSHER (Evening), MERA (to guide), MERIT (earth), MESS,
HARA, SEWU (man), SEET (women), SHIFTA, TARE (Enemy), TENA (to grow
old, old aged man), TUAA (Morning), etc. (E.A W Budge, 1978).

The Egyptian hieroglyphic writing system like Geez has only first order
character. Furthermore, the Merotic Ethiopian alphabet has resemblance
with the Geez. A six lines seal of queen Hendike Taktidamini from
the ancient city of Merowe is to be seen in Berlin Museum. Two dots
are used to separate words the same as in Geez, Amharic and Tigrigna.

The so-called Roman and Greek alphabets were derived form the
"semitic" consonantal alphabet that emanated from Egyptian hieroglyphic
writing. This was witnessed by the work of Sir William Flinders Petrie
who discovered the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions and Sir Alan Gardiner
who proved the "semitic alphabet" is derived from Egyption hieroglyphic
writing system. At the temple to goddess Hathor in Sinai Peninsula,
an inscription which was to be read as Baalat was discovered.

The word Baal in Geez, Amharic and Tigrigna is a sacred term. Baal is a
religious anniversary, a day of rest and festivity celebrated weekly,
monthly or yearly. For example: Ethiopian and ancient Egyptian New
Year in the first half of September Gena (Xmas) on the 7th January

The Proto-Sinaitic alphabet is directly related to Ethioipian
Geez alphabet than to any other so-called North-western Semitic
family. Ethiopic (Geez) and ancient Egyptian writing systems are the
origin of the alphabet.

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Yerevan-Pristina Television Bridge Organized at RA MFA

YEREVAN-PRISTINA TELEVISION BRIDGE ORGANIZED AT RA MFA

YE REVAN, JUNE 28, NOYAN TAPAN. During a regular "NATO Week" held in
Armenia within the framework of Armenia’s Individual Partnership Action
Plan (IPAP) with NATO, the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)
organized for the second time a Yerevan-Pristina television bridge for
Armenian peacekeepers in Kosovo and their families. NT was informed by
the RA MFA Press and Information Department that the embassies of
Greece and the United States in Armenia greatly supported in the
organization of the TV bridge on June 27.

At the beginning of the TV bridge, the RA foreign minister Edward
Nalbandian’s welcoming speech to Armenian peacekeepers was
demonstrated. Then NATO Assistant Secretary General on Public Diplomacy
Jean-Francois Bureau and the US Charge D’Affaires in Armenia Joseph
Pennington made speeches of welcome, thanking the peacekeepers and
wishing them success in their further peacekeeping mission. They
positively assessed the RA National Assembly’s May 12, 2008 decision to
double the number of peacekeepers, saying that it will contribute to
strengthening Armenia-NATO cooperation.

http://www.nt.am/news.php?shownews=115047

Armenia Chairmanship-In-Office Of BSEC

ARMENIA CHAIRMANSHIP-IN-OFFICE OF BSEC

Panorama.am
15:32 25/06/2008

Armenia is going to assume the Chairmanship-in-Office of the
Organization of Black Sea Economic Cooperation in November for half
a year, said the Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbanyan.

"In November Armenia will assume the Chairmanship-in-Office of the
BSEC for 6 months. This is certainly honorable for our country and
creates new responsibilities also. The Government of Armenia, Foreign
Ministry and other authorized bodies have started to get prepared to
meet the activities appropriately," said the Foreign Minister.

The Minister said that Armenia is linked with the organization having
several fields of relationship, in particular economy, transport,
agriculture, science, technologies and communication, education,
environmental issues and tourism.

Note that BSEC was established in 1992 and it came into existence
as promising model of multilateral political and economic initiative
aimed to ensure peace, stability and prosperity encouraging friendly
and good-neighbourly relations in the Black Sea region. The members of
the organization are Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia,
Greece, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine.

Elections In Armenia And Russia Have New Wave To Relationship

ELECTIONS IN ARMENIA AND RUSSIA HAVE NEW WAVE TO RELATIONSHIP

Panorama.am
20:37 25/06/2008

The elections in Armenia and Russia gave new wave to the development
of the bilateral relationship between Armenia and Russia, said the
Chairman of the Russian State Duma Boris Grizlov in a meeting with
the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan.

"The parliamentary and presidential elections fulfilled in our
countries create strong ground for the future development and
strengthening of our relationship," he said.

B Grizlov said that he highly evaluates the common view points of
Armenia and Russian expressed in the Organization of Collective
Security Contract.

The President of Armenia said that the Parliaments of the both
countries try hard to improve the relationsip and sphere of
communication.

David Haroutunyan Believes Incorrect PACE Demand To Provide A1+ TV C

DAVID HAROUTUNYAN BELIEVES INCORRECT PACE DEMAND TO PROVIDE A1+ TV COMPANY WITH BROADCASTING LICENSE

ArmInfo
2008-06-25 11:33:00

The demand of PACE Monitoring Committee to provide A1+ TV Company
with broadcasting license is incorrect David Haroutunyan, Head of the
Armenian delegation to PACE, Chairman of the Armenian Parliamentary
Commission for State and Legal Affairs, told ArmInfo. The document on
fulfillment of PACE Resolution No1609 by Armenia says particularly on
A1+ TV Company that PACE demanded providing license to the independence
and popular TV company A1+ yet log ago. Given the recent decision
of the European Court for Human Rights saying that the Armenian
authorities pledge to compensate the TV Company for deprivation of
air, the document urges the authorities to provide the Company with a
license immediately. To recall, debates on the document on fulfillment
of PACE Resolution No1609 by Armenia are expected today on June 25.

D. Haroutunyan said such statement of the question is incorrect since
there are no free frequencies for broadcasting. ‘We cannot deprive
any company of frequency in favor of A1+’, he said. He believes that
the right statement of the question is that free, fair and transparent
tenders are held in the country in future on the basis of the practice
of European Court for Human Rights as well as the recommendations of
the CE Committee of Ministers.

‘There are special recommendations on how to organize the given
process. I think if the question is stated in such way, it will be
quite admissible’, D. Haroutunyan said. He also added that Armenia has
repeatedly expressed an intention to pay special attention to pluralism
of e-media. ‘This task must be settled. Moreover, the parliament has
submitted a relevant bill to the Venice Commission. The bill provides
for guaranteeing open, fair and transparent tenders for provision of
licenses to TV and radio companies’, he said.

Sergei Mironov Pleased With Development Of Russia-Armenia Relations

SERGEI MIRONOV PLEASED WITH DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIA-ARMENIA RELATIONS

PanARMENIAN.Net
24.06.2008

Currently in Moscow on a formal visit, Armenia’s President Serzh
Sargsyan met with Chairman of the Russian Federation Council Sergei
Mironov to discuss bilateral relations.

The parties noted the positive dynamics in political, economic and
humanitarian cooperation and strengthening of interparliamentary
dialog, says the information posted on the Federation Council’s
website.

Voicing contentment with the development of relations between the
two states, Mr. Mironov said the Federation Council pays special
attention to cooperation within the CIS IPA.

For his part, President Sargsyan emphasized that commodity turnover
between Armenia and Russia increased by 67 per cent against the last
year’s index and totaled $700 million. "The figure will reach $1.5
billion next year," he said, Novosti Armenia reports.

In completion of the meeting, the Armenian President invited
Mr. Mironov to Armenia

Medvedev And Sargsyan Begin Talks In Kremlin

MEDVEDEV AND SARGSYAN BEGIN TALKS IN KREMLIN

ITAR-TASS
June 24 2008
Russia

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Armenian counterpart Serge
Sargsyan have begun talks in the Kremlin.

After a meeting in a narrow format, the two leaders will continue
talks with the participation of members of the delegations and tell
about the their results at press conferences. The presidents are
expected sign a joint statement of the heads of state that "covers
a wide range of issues of Russian-Armenian relations."

Medvedev and Sargsyan, who took up the highest state posts in the
current year with a difference of one month, had already met twice. The
Armenian president came to Moscow in late March and to St. Petersburg
in early June for an informal CIS summit. At that time, the Russian
leader invited him to come again for an official visit.

Mcgovern: Iran War Drawing Closer

MCGOVERN: IRAN WAR DRAWING CLOSER

press tv
Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:24:42

Former CIA officer Ray McGovern Former CIA officer Ray McGovern
says President Bush and his ally, Israel, will likely attack Iran in
‘late summer or early fall’.

"A perfect storm seems to be gathering in late summer or early fall,"
McGovern, who served as a Central Intelligence Agency officer under
seven US presidents in a period of 27 years, wrote in an editorial
published by Antiwar.com.

McGovern added that an agreement had been reached between the US and
Israel ‘at the highest level’, claiming that ‘planners, plotters and
pilots’ have begun work on the details of an aerial military attack
against the oil-rich country.

His remarks came shortly after Pentagon officials told The New York
Times that Israel had carried out a large-scale military maneuver in
early June which appeared to be a rehearsal for ‘a potential bombing
attack on Iran’s nuclear sites’.

McGovern also claimed that the main reason an attack has not yet
been launched on Iran is the opposition of senior military officers,
the numbers of whom are currently dropping due to White House efforts.

Washington and Tel Aviv accuse Tehran of pursuing a nuclear weapons
program and have expressed their willingness to wage war on Iran if
the country continues to enrich uranium.

This is while according to the most recent UN nuclear watchdog
report on Tehran’s nuclear program, there is no link between the
use of nuclear material and ‘the alleged studies’ of weaponization
attributed to Iran by Western countries.

Armenian Opposition Rallies: PACE Says Reforms "Inadequate"

ARMENIAN OPPOSITION RALLIES; PACE SAYS REFORMS "INADEQUATE"
Marianna Grigoryan

EurasiaNet
June 20 2008
NY

With cries of "Fight, fight till the end!" supporters of ex-President
Levon Ter-Petrosian on June 20 held their first large-scale public
demonstration in Yerevan since the violence of March 1 that left ten
people dead.

Opposition protestors made plain that they saw the rally as a critical
test for the government – both at home and abroad. Next week, the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will discuss Armenia’s
progress in meeting the terms of a recent resolution calling for the
government to undertake various confidence-building measures in the
wake of the March 1 crackdown on opposition demonstrators. Failure
to honor the resolution could result in the loss of Armenia’s PACE
voting rights.

On June 20, the body announced that Armenia’s progress in meeting
its demands had been "insufficient."

With those demands in mind, some rally participants carried posters
with the photographs of arrested opposition members. "Prescott and
Colombier, don’t protect the assassins of March 1," read one poster, in
reference to John Prescott and Georges Colombier, two PACE rapporteurs
sent to evaluate Armenia’s progress in meeting Resolution 1609 before
the body starts its summer session on June 23.

As if a reminder for the international community, rally speakers
re-emphasized their chief complaints against the government of
President Serzh Sarkisian.

"This rally proves that the people do not accept the results of the
[February 19 presidential] elections and [Armenian President] Serzh
Sarkisian’s legitimacy," Ter-Petrosian, who officially finished a
distant second in the presidential race, told cheering onlookers.

The ex-president went on to assert that such rallies should
not be linked with the events of March 1. "Dozens of rallies and
demonstrations have taken place before, but no disorder ever happened,"
he proclaimed. "The bandit group, the Tatar-Mongol gang, fired at
the people. Sooner or later, they will pay for this," he charged
in reference to Sarkisian and former President Robert Kocharian,
who was in office at the time of the March 1 events.

In an apparent flashback to his own presidency, Ter-Petrosian also
promised the crowd that those who died during the violence would be
named official national heroes.

As usual, opposition and police showed little convergence in
their estimates of the number of participants on hand to hear that
message. Police monitoring the crowd estimated 10,000; at the start of
the rally, senior opposition Republican Party member Suren Sureniants
put the number at "around 50,000." By the end, Ter-Petrosian himself
asserted that 200,000 protestors had turned out to express their
disapproval of the government.

Opposition supporters claimed that public transportation cuts were
used to block a greater turnout.

Less debate surrounds the demonstration’s timing – the event took
place just three days before the start of the PACE session. The two
PACE rapporteurs were in the country from June 16-17, while the
Ter-Petrosian movement’s fight to secure a downtown location for
their rally was still going strong.

Contrary to the two men’s findings, President Sarkisian’s government
has maintained that progress has indeed been made in releasing some
prisoners, setting up a structured dialogue with some opposition
groups, and launching an investigation into March 1. [For details,
see the Eurasia Insight archive].

The opposition, however, says that it sees no sign of change. "There
is only one issue for me at this moment – the issue of liberating
the political prisoners," declared Ter-Petrosian. Only once such
prisoners have been released from jail, he added, could talks with
the government begin.

In the days running up to the rally, however, the opposition had
been careful to keep the focus on their fight with the Yerevan city
government over the demonstration venue.

The Yerevan city government had earlier denied the group permission
to convene at Liberty Square, the most popular site for opposition
rallies. The request was rejected on the grounds that an event
for children had been scheduled for June 20 at the square for the
same time.

But on Friday, Liberty Square bore no sign of such an event.

Instead, rows of police with shields tightly ringed the square, minutes
away from the offices of the president and prime minister. Several
police vehicles stood parked in the square’s center.

Opposition leaders, charging that the city was playing politics,
had vowed to gather at the site, nonetheless. Their announcements
sparked a warning from First Deputy Police Chief Major General Armen
Yeritsian on June 19 that "our position will be very harsh" if "mass
disorder and crimes … take place." sparked a warning from that
"We will not allow mass disorder and crimes to take place."

In response, the opposition tuned its sights on the area in front
of the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, also known as Matenadaran,
the standard fallback site for opposition rallies. The city had
earlier also rejected an opposition request for this site, and made
a counter-offer of a soccer stadium, which was rejected out of hand.

But, after negotiations between protestors and police, the rally at
Matenadaran was allowed to proceed. Police armed with electric shock
devices and shields had taken up position at the site in the afternoon,
a few hours before the original 6pm start time.

Neighborhood onlookers watched the rally with interest, but without
necessarily joining in. While a flag-waving Ter-Petrosian supporter
asserted that "[w]e will win" eventually, one taxi driver took a more
distant approach. As the opposition and government do battle, he said,
"[n]o one is thinking about the simple people."

Ankara: First Conviction After The Amendment In The Article 301

FIRST CONVICTION AFTER THE AMENDMENT IN THE ARTICLE 301

Sabah
June 19 2008
Turkey

The first person to be convicted of the amended Article 301 in the
Turkish Criminal Code is publisher Ragıp Zarakolu. The court did
not deem it necessary to apply to the ministry.

The director of Belge Publishing House, Ragıp Zarakolu, has received
a five-months jail sentence due to the publishing of a book which
covers the Armenian issue, entitled "Reality will Emancipate us,"
becoming the first person to be convicted of Article 301 after it
was amended on May 8th. The court has sentenced Ragıp Zarakolu to
time in prison for "insulting and deriding the government" and had
concluded on a jail sentence of five months then converted the charge
to a monetary fine. The court did not deem it necessary to receive new
permission from the ministry as it had already acquired the license
from the Ministry of Justice four years prior.

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