An ancient Libyan man depicted on an Egyptian stone engraving. Flinders Petrie states that the “precise resemblance” of the predynastic Egyptian and ancient Libyan figures “is beyond question,” which indicates a common origin for these “allied tribes of a European character” (Petrie (1901). (*N.B. This affinity has been confirmed by ancient DNA analysis. Muslim Egyptians share a similar genome profile as modern Libyans (direct descendants of the ancient Libyans) and Afro-Asiatic speakers from the Horn. These populations also bear some European Steppe-derived ancestry — see Genetic affinities of the Cushitic, Ethiosemitic and North Omotic-speaking populations of the Horn of Africa.)
Land of Punt 
