Macrobians aka ancient Somalis, cousins of the A. Egyptians

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The Macrobians were an ancient people and kingdom positioned in the Horn of Africa during the 1st millennium BC.

The Macrobians are mentioned by Herodotus as being a people that had mastered longevity, with the average Macrobian living until the age of 120. They were said to be the "tallest and handsomest of all men".

This may suggest relations with the Sabeans (Sebaim), who are similarly described in the Bible as "men of stature". The Macrobians were part of an expanse of related peoples, kinsmen of the Ancient Egyptians, that inhabited an area stretching from East Africa northward into Egypt and North Africa. At the same time, they were reported as being physically distinct from the general inhabitants of the region below the Sahara.

James Rennell associates the Macrobians with the Abyssinians and Schweinfurth and Lejean link them with the Makaberab.

Upon conquering Ancient Egypt, the Persian Emperor Cambyses II sent ambassadors to Macrobia, bringing luxury gifts for the Macrobian King to entice his submission. The Macrobian ruler, who was elected based at least in part on stature, replied instead with a challenge for his Persian counterpart in the form of an unstrung bow: if the Persians could manage to string it, they would have the right to invade his country; but until then, they should thank the gods that the Macrobians never decided to invade their empire.

According to Herodotus, the Macrobians practiced an elaborate form of embalming. This, in turn, suggested a knowledge on their part of anatomy and, at the very least, a grasp of the basics of chemistry. The Macrobians preserved the bodies of the dead by first extracting moisture from the corpses, then overlaying the bodies with a type of plaster, and finally decorating the exterior in vivid colors in order to imitate the deceased as realistically as possible. They then placed the body in a hollow crystal pillar, which they kept in their homes for a period of about a year.

Macrobia was also noted for its gold, which was so plentiful that the Macrobians shackled their prisoners in golden chains

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrobians

[DANGIRL]

I wonder how long before AA's start claiming macrobians as theirs like they do with AE?

[SiennaEarth]

I wonder how long i'll take before AA's start claiming macrobians as theirs like they do with AE?

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I wonder how long i'll take before AA's start claiming macrobians as theirs like they do with AE?

Haha, that's what I was thinking I even googled "Macrobians ancient black people" to see if anything comes up

Although, it's not that big of a deal, it's good to have content for Somali history classes

[Khalid Ali]

African Americans are inferior people i mean they were enslaved for to long they were kept as concubines, massa focks every cute black booty and in return they can wear clothes. These people have low self esteem. Why would any one want to claim fircoon lool

[ZubeirAwal]

ancient egyptians pointed to north somali lands as their land of origin and ancestry.

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ancient egyptians pointed to north somali lands as their land of origin and ancestry.

What would be the point in joining a fight against whites and arabs and blacks lol

[Bilis]

According to the ancient Greek geographer Pausanias, the Macrobians lived along the Nile river, in a landlocked area. They inhabited Meroe, the capital of ancient Kush in northern Sudan. This is why their customs were so similar to those of the Ancient Egyptians:

"Pausanias (lib. iv.) says, that Meroe and the Ethiopian plains are inhabited by the Macrobians, the most just people of the earth: but that they have not in the country any sea, nor any other river but the Nile."

http://books.google.com/books?id=yG1BAA ... &q&f=false

In other words, the Macrobians and the Meroites were one and the same i.e. a Hamitic people like the Ancient Egyptians and ancestral Somalis.

[Adali]

Fircoon himself is not someone I would be happy about being related to, but Ancient Egypt was a powerful, rich and advanced empire, hence why so many people claim them, I wouldn't be surprised if Chinese start claiming them too.

[DonCorleone]

Blacks claim china Greece Europe and Africa lol

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

If AAs like to claim Ancient Egypt, then why is this thread about how somalis are supposedly related to the Ancient Egyptians? The truth is Somalis and Egypt have as much to do with eachother as Spain and Turkmenistan. Stop claiming other peoples heritage, especially when compared to Greece and Rome, the Egyptians paled in comparison.

[Thuganomics]

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And Greece and Rome paled in comparison to the Persians

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And Greece and Rome paled in comparison to the Persians

What Persians, ancient or medieval?

[Thuganomics]

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And Greece and Rome paled in comparison to the Persians

What Persians, ancient or medieval?

Ancient

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And Greece and Rome paled in comparison to the Persians

What Persians, ancient or medieval?

Ancient

After Xerxes I, the ancient Persians degenerated. Besides, the ancient Persians didn't bring anything new or impressive (except their superior system of networking) and largely just took over already existing cultural and administrative frameworks from Mesopotamia and the levant. The Muslim Persians however were religious, scientific and cultural geniuses.