1. Head of a Nubian, New Kingdom, 20th Dynasty
The Nubian Kingdom first known as Ta-Seti first appears around 3800 BCE in and around the regions between modern day Qustul, Sudan and Aswan, Egypt. Lower Nubia seems to have become largely depopulated, based on archaeological evidence, but this more likely means that Nubians were partially bio-culturally assimilated into the later nation of southern Kemet. Lower Nubia had a much smaller population than Kemet due to desertification, and would eventually become Kemet's first Nome known by the same name Ta-Seti which was the southernmost Nome of Kemet. It is important to distinguish this Nome from that what academics called "old Nubia", which existed centuries prior the unification of Upper and Lower Kemet.
Nubia had many different Kingdoms over the millennia, including Kerma, the Kingdom of Kush, Yam, Wawat and Meroé, as well as various Chiefdoms. The people of Punt were refered to as "Nehesy n Pwenet", which tranlates to the "Nubians of Punt". Punt was located within Ta-Netjer meaning "Land of the Gods", a region which stretched from the Great Lakes region to the Horn of Africa and was the birthplace of the Kemetic pantheon and home of "the Horizon Dwellers".
This Epithet refers to the oldest and earliest of ancestors of the ancient Kemetyu as they looked south to Ta-Netjer located in so called Sub-Saharan Africa for the origins of their lineage, culture and traditions. The Medjay served as the Kemetic army, police force and administrators in Kemet while the Kushites during the New Kingdom would liberate the country from Libyan hegemony and usher in a renaissance era known as the 25th Dynasty. Nubian warriors were world renowned for their skill in archery and were known as the "pupil smiters" for their deadly accuracy.
2. Head of a Beduin from Arabian Peninsula, New Kingdom, 20th Dynasty
Historically, the Bedouin engaged in nomadic herding, agriculture and sometimes fishing in the Arabian Peninsula into the Syrian steppe since 6000 BCE. By about 850 BCE, a complex network of settlements and camps was established. The earliest Arab tribes emerged from Bedouins. They are the original Black Arabs who native to the Arabian Peninsula prior to the northern Iranian's of the Abbasid Caliphate who moved into the Arabian Peninsula and mixed with the original dark skinned Arabs. The root definition of Arab and Bedouin simply means Nomad.
Bedouin Culture in the Bible:
The Bible situates the early Israelites—the Negev, Sinai, and Transjordan, and the hills and deserts of eastern Canaan—is where nomads have chosen to live for the 4,500 years since at least the recorded Shasu during the Fifth Egyptian Dynasty (2,500 BCE) down to the Bedouin of the mid-twentieth century.¹ Before the modern era, relatively few Bedouin in each generation abandoned this way of life to settle elsewhere permanently, and the many that remained in the desert were at home with its hardships.
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