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Old Kingdom had survived, carried their customs to 

 Colchis, perhaps as sailors manning the ships of 

 Phoenicians or as soldiers in the army of an Egyptian 

 king, which the vague designation " Sesostris " of the 

 Greek historian suggests. 



The reference to the swarthiness and curly hair of the 

 Colchians suggests an Ethiopian origin. In this con- 

 nexion it is perhaps significant that in the story told by 

 Herodotus " Sesostris " is said to have visited the Black 

 Sea in the course cf an expedition which began in the 

 Red Sea. It is perhaps possible that the original miners 

 of Colchis may have come from the Egyptian mines in 

 the Eastern Desert. In the account of the burial customs 

 of the Scythians (of the Black Sea littoral) given by 

 Herodotus, not only were Egyptian methods of mummi- 

 fication adopted (see "The Migrations of Early Culture," 

 p. 66), but also the practice of killing wives and attendants, 

 which I regard as a Sudanese addition to the Egyptian 

 burial customs (op. cit., p. 56), 



In the account of his excavations in the Kuban 

 district of Southern Russia, M. de Majewski describes the 

 finding of a curious clay model of a pile-dwelling, which 

 he refers " to a well-defined phase of pre-Mycenean cul- 

 ture at the latter part of the Neolithic." - 



After much searching for analogous dwellings else- 

 where, M. de Majewski ultimately found what he wanted 

 in the bas-reliefs at Der el-Bahri of Queen Hatshepsut's 

 expedition to Punt, and came to the conclusion that "il 

 parait done que quelque part, sur les bords de la Mer 

 Rouge, ou sur les rives du Nil superieur, on construisait 

 les habitations humaines de la meme facon que sur les 

 bords de la Mer Noire" (pp. cit., p. 233). 



2 " Habitation humaine (enclos) sur pilotis de la fin du neolithique," 

 Bull. Soc. d* Anthrop. de Paris, April 3, 191 3, p. 229. 



