During the 18th dynasty in ancient Kemet, researchers noted representations of people known as Keftiu in the tombs of pharaohs, who bore a resemblance to the residents of Crete during the late Bronze Age. The Bible makes references to the Caphtorim and their territory, Caphtor. Is it possible to establish a solid connection between the Keftiu and the Minoan civilization of Crete?
The territory of the Minoans, referred to by the ancient Egyptians as Keftiu and by Near Eastern empires as Caphtor, might one day be acknowledged as a settlement of ancient Kemet. While some may think of King Minos, the legendary ruler of Crete, and the myth of the cannibalistic Minotaur as depicting a harsh tyrant who imposed heavy tribute on Athens, others who seek a deeper spiritual insight recall that King Minos, together with his brother Rhadamanthys, served as judges of humanity in the underworld alongside Aiakos, the gateway to the afterlife.
Homer mentioned in the Iliad that Crete boasted over 100 cities during the era of the Keftiu (Minoans), a fact that is widely acknowledged yet not widely publicized. Scholars continue to debate and research the structure of the Keftiu (Minoan) government, and the degree of control exerted by Knossos (possibly under Minos) across the empire. What is not commonly known is the fact that Plato based his story on a text from an Kemetnui (Egyptian) story translated to him by an Egyptian priest. Most Scholars agree the translation was very bad.
It has been proposed that "Minos" may be a title similar to the Egyptian "Pharaoh." Texts from the New Kingdom Period in Egypt (1550 BC to 1070 BC) refer to Crete and its inhabitants as Kaftu or Keftiu (Akkadian Kaptaru and Biblical Caphtor). In certain instances, the name Menus appears, which might be an alternate representation of Minos.
The Keftiu, or Minoan language, evolved into Linear A, enhancing our understanding and shaping our perception of their ethnic identity. These people created a kind of Utopia where the spiritual and physical realms were deeply reflective of a Nubio-Kemetic African belief system. Linear A provides additional evidence of the Keftiu's uniqueness and power, which was centered around the amalgamation and refinement of the world's best knowledge at that time, combining Kemet with Afro-Asiatic influences and North African tribal elements. The few surviving script fragments appear to be a mix of Akkadian Sumerograms, pictograms, and hieroglyphics similar to those used by the ancient Egyptians, symbols akin to those found in later Linear A, and characters that remain undeciphered.
The Minoan language, associated with the ancient civilization of Crete, was recorded in Cretan hieroglyphs and the Linear A syllabary, which are believed to be based on Kemetan. Since the Cretan hieroglyphs remain undeciphered and Linear A is only partially deciphered, the Minoan language is intriguingly reminiscent of African languages but remains unclassified. Early farmers of Crete shared the same DNA as contemporaneous Neolithic Aegeans. The Neolithic Revolution reached Europe beginning in 7000–6500 BC, during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period, when agriculturalists from the Near East entered the Greek peninsula from Anatolia mainly by island-hopping through the Aegean Sea. Minoans and Mycenaeans were genetically similar, having at least three quarters of their ancestry from the first Neolithic farmers. Phenotypically the neolithic farmers were believed to have been dark haired and dark eyed, and light brown skinned, and much darker than most modern Europeans.
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