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Chiekh Anta Diop's 11 Categories of Converging Evidence Showing that Ancient Kemet was Native Black Afrakan

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  1. Evidence From Physical Anthropology - Measurements of pre-dynastic skulls (height, length, width of face, nasal length, cephallie index, facial index, etc)

  2. Evidence From Kemetic Human Images - Pre-dynastic and early dynastic natives, when clear are clearly black

  3. The Melanin dosage test applied to royal and other mummies

  4. Osteological Evidence - "Lepsius cannon", 19th century, said that the typical Kemite was of the short armed negrito type

  5. Blood Group - Shown to be mostly B, even for Egyptians today after centuries of mixing, same as for other black Africans, vs A2 for whites.

  6. The testimony of classical Greek and Roman Authors
    Herodotus 5th BCE
    Aristotle 4th BCE
    Luclan 2nd BCE
    Strabo 1st BCE
    Diodorus 1st AC

  7. Kemetic self descriptions - KMT, with plural people determinatives in Mdw Ntchr.

  8. Divine Epithets - Beneficial Ntchru always shown as black, bad ones are shown as red.

  9. Evidence from the Bible - Ham with children (Cush, Phut, Mizraim (KMT), Canaan). 

  10. Cultural unity with the rest of Africa - (e.g. Circumcision, even before 4,000 BCE, totemism).

  11. Linguistic unity with southern and western Africa

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