“Anyone who is superficially familiar with ancient Egyptian…

“Anyone who is superficially familiar with ancient Egyptian civilization should by now be aware of a very curious quirk in the orientation of the Egyptian people who refer to Southern Egypt as Upper Egypt and Northern Egypt as Lower Egypt. How many people have ever thought about the implications of that datum? What does one do with it? What we have done is what reason dictates, and that is to invert the map to its proper position, to correct for the fact that the most ancient well-known civilization equated South with up and North with down. Thus, Asia is to the left of Egypt, not above it and what is now called the Sudan (the old Ethiopia) is above Egypt. Indeed, the major words for up and south are interchangeable.”

Jedi Shemsu Jehewty (Jacob H. Carruthers)

Essays in Ancient Egyptian Studies

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