OLMECS WERE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS

"Evidence exists to show that roughly contemporaneous with the time of Ramses III [1230 BC], if not much earlier, the Egyptians, or else some other group of Negroes, engaged in maritime activities across the Atlantic. Documents from the times of Ramses III mention voyages to 'the ends of the earth' and also voyages to the mountain in the far west of the world. Mr. Rafique Jairazbhoy, an Indian scholar of considerable erudition, identified this region as Ancient Mexico and the African voyagers as Egyptians. He pointed out a huge number of cultural continuities between the Nile Valley and those in Olmec Mexico. "There are colossal stone carvings of human heads produced by the Olmecs, the formative Native American civilization. Sixteen such heads have been found. Two were recovered from Tres Zapotes, four from La Venta, six from San Lorenzo and four from other sites All weighed between 10 and 40 tons. All of them have African features,, and one has a braided hairstyle . The earliest has been dated at about 1160 BC and some to 580 BC. Jose M. Melgar, a Mexican, found one of the carvings in 1862. In 1869 he wrote a bulletin on it for the 'Mexican Society of Geography and Statistics:' '[W]hat astonished me [says Melgar] was the Ethiopic type represented . I reflected that there had undoubtedly been Negroes in this country, and that this had been in the first epoch of the world.' In 1963 the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, held an exhibition of Olmec artifacts between 18 June and 25 August. Alfonso Medellin Zinlil wrote the introductory essay for the exhibition catalogue, 'The Olmec Tradition.' In this essay, we are assured that: "'The colossal heads and 'Monuments F' of Tres Zapotes, principally, have vigorous and precise Negroid physical characteristics, such as prominent cheek bones, thick lips and platyrrhine noses. For a long time there was concern as to what the hair was is, or was, since, in the case of the colossal heads, they are invariably covered by a cap or helmet. This doubt has gone on indefinitely , but finally some light has been thrown on the problem with the discovery of two heads, .75 meters tall, which are identified as 'Numbers 1 and 2 of Laguna de Los Cerros, on which, with the characteristic cheek bones and platyrrhine nose, there is a hair arrangement or head of curly hair.'" P.198-199, "The Later History of the Nile Valley, WHEN WE RULED THE ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL HISTORY OF BLACK CIVILIZATION (2006) by Robin Walker