ABSTRACT
ASI said in From Tribe to Empire,the first inhabitants of Egypt did not all belong to one race. The skeletons found up to the present and the types portrayed on the monuments permit us to distinguish three: a race of Semitic type, of medium height, with a dolichocephalous skull, one of Semito-Libyan type, brachycephalous and hook-nosed, and one of Mediterranean type, brachycephalous, with a short, straight nose. 1 These elements were fused together in the valley of the Nile as in a crucible, to form a people of tillers of the soil. Afterwards this people was to absorb the foreign elements which came in at intervals and the dweller by the Nile would retain a special Egyptian character. 2 Apparent diversity and fundamental unity are as true of the race as of the country.
