2022-07-09T09:35:00-08:00
English, who decided the Pharaonicity of the ancient Egyptians!
William Matthew Flinders Petrie was the first to describe the ancient Egyptian civilization as pharaohs. He was an English Egyptologist and a racist who believed in the superiority of the white race. He lived between 1853 and 1942, and is buried in Jerusalem due to his strong attachment and belief in the popular Bible narrative.
With this endeavor, Petrie was following the same path taken by many excavation missions, which attempted to match the circulating Bible narrative with the geography of Palestine, Misr, and Sinai, which began with the first German mission that came to Palestine in 1871, to be followed by an American mission headed by William Albright in 1920… and it did not Excavations stop from that time until the present day.
Most of those who led these missions were theologians who believed in the popular Bible narrative, and that Misr and Palestine were the scene of the events in the Bible. The efforts of all these people, and with them the efforts of thousands of Zionist archaeologists, failed, and this is evident in the frustration they expressed.
Before Petrie, no one described the ancient Egyptians as pharaohs, but what is surprising is that naming the ancient Egyptian civilization as pharaohs has become a given for Egyptians, and has become what many Egyptians believe is a “medal” on their chests, of which they are proud, that distinguishes them and separates them from the rest of the Arabs around them. And they get angry at those who deny it.
I do not think that what Petrie did was personal or spontaneous effort at all, but I think it is part of the colonialist method of creating identities for the peoples it occupies, to destroy the factors of unity between them, and to separate them from their history.
The Pharaonicism of the Egyptians is identical to the Canaanism of the Palestinians, as both of them were only mentioned in the widely circulated Bible, where those who “believe” in them see it as also a “badge” on their chest that distinguishes and separates them from the Arabs around them.
What cannot be explained is that many of those who do not believe in the biblical narrative believe in the Canaanite Palestinians!!
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