The C-Group culture is an archaeological culture found in Lower Nubia, which dates from c. 2400 BCE to c. 1550 BCE. It was named by George A. Reisner. With no central site and no written evidence abou
Bowl of the C-Group, Musée du Louvre
Pottery of the C-Group people, 2300–1600 BCE, Faras.
The handmade spherical storage pot features smooth surfaces, with a blackened rim and interior, and is decorated with incised lines, opposing hatched triangles, and columns of lozenges and dots on its body.
The Berber languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They comprise a group of closely related languages spoken by Berber communities, who are indigenous to North Africa. Historically,
C-Group culture
…to Peter Behrens (1981) and Marianne Bechaus-Gerst (2000), linguistic evidence indicates that the C-Group peoples spoke Afro-Asiatic languages of the Berber branch. This thesis rests on somewhat sketchy and numerically insufficient lexical evidence. Recent evidence suggests that the C-Group peoples spoke…
Ancient Libyco-Berber inscriptions in Zagora, Morocco