Qustul Incense Burner

A prehistoric stone incense burner, on display at the Oriental Institute in Chicago. It comes from the site of Qustul in northern Sudan and contains the oldest definitive depiction of the Egyptian White Crown.

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Education

Tags:

• Nubia
• Egypt
• prehistoric
• Upper
• Lower
• Qustul
• Hierakonpolis
• Nekhen
• crown
• royal
• cemetery
• iconography
• grave
• incense
• burner

[kmtsesh]

I was about to block WesleySniperS1 as a user in my channel. It's stunning that he could turn a simple, beautiful, ancient incense burner into a long-winded diatribe about racism. That is not at all why I made this video. Rather than blocking him, however, I've set this video to "approve comment." I can keep irrelevant crap out this way, and at the same still give WesleySniperS1 the chance to contribute something useful, if that's possible.

[WesleySniperS1]

I respectfully suggest you leave AFRICAN History to the Africans, because I can tell you already no african will validate this kind of nonsense your spouting. Peace and have a nice day.

[kmtsesh]

I truly hope this means you'll leave my channel. I'd much rather prefer to discuss culture and history with people, not haggle over modern racial baggage.

[kmtsesh]

@madkeyra To wrap this up, the Qustul A Group culture evidences a very similar sociopolitcal development to contemporary Hierakonpolis in Naqada III, no more and no less. They were on basically the same footing until Egypt wrested control of the region from the Qustul people. From that point the A Group withered and was wiped out at last by the reign of Sneferu, Dynasty 4.

[kmtsesh]

@madkeyra Menes was the first king of legend. Who exactly he was is unclear. "Menes" was possibly an alternate name for either Narmer or Hor-Aha, either of whom was definitely the first king of record. My video highlights in part the A Group culture of Qustul and the period of Naqada III. In other words, this is the same period as Egyptian state formation, and the incense burner dates to slightly before then. Not much older. Upper Egypt and Lower Nubia shared a lot of ethnic and cultural traits.

[madkeyra]

@kmtsesh I believe the first Pharaoh was Menes. If so, this excavation of Ta-seti is much older than the first pharoah Menes, prior to any Dynasty in Kemet. Therefore, the logic of your video is misleading and inaccurate. Constrasting Kushites with kemites would be the latter of the findings escavated at abu simble and Qustul. What is clear, Most of the Kemites, Pharonic headress, God, temples and arts where a continuation of the older Ta-Seti pharaoh. In conclusion the beggining of Kemet.

[WesleySniperS1]

lol oh yeah stop lying too.. the average AE was of 5'8 and taller.. why you given them a european height for, don't you know all africans apart from a few pygamy tribes have super negroid skeletal types..lol.. what is the basic height for nubians too? 5'3.. lol.. Those must have been the caucasoid mummies at the very end of the dynastic period. Dr Zahi Hawaas is so desperate to hide the facts, he is even displaying blonde mummies and calling them ancients.. *some people eh*.. lol

[kmtsesh]

LOL "There is a god and you will be damned. PEACE." Damning someone and wishing him peace at the same time. Afrocentrism is a form of historical revisionism where black African culture is applied to inappropriate aspects of history. It is neither scientific nor proper protocol for research. I don't care if you're black, white, yellow, or brown--if you follow afrocentrism, your argument is flawed. I work with black friends at a museum, and they would laugh at your stuff the same as I do.

[WesleySniperS1]

So are you just promoting a Eurocentric veiwpoint? Okay I now understand where your coming from, so I'm to assume that no logic or commonsense was used by yourself when making these videos of 'CAUCASOIDS' lol.. even that word is racist as it used to mean, Indigenous africans can be from caucasians, even the caucasians were made by blacks and were the last race on earth.. lol.. funny that.. *those europeans..tut tut*.. Understand european features comes from black people not the other way round.

[WesleySniperS1]

Another thing, every black person who disagrees with your slanted warped view of BLACK history is Afrocentric? I have even put on my profile that I don't support that, but I won't sit back and watch foolishness without commenting, It's a good thing you never made videos about the ashkenazi/khazar jews or you would have already called me anti semetic even though there jephetic, Keep up your lies, you may not have to answer to nobody on earth, but there is a god and you will be damned. PEACE