The Proto-Egyptians of 6000-3200 B.C.
Now that we've laid out some of the factors that would have brought about a 6000 B.C. carving of the face of the Sphinx, let's take a look at what the people of that Proto-Egyptian culture in the Nile delta area looked like. When we go back into a preliterate period such as 6000 to 3200 B.C. , or even earlier, the appearance of the residents of the Nile delta down through Memphis was not what we would see today, or even in 2500 B.C., but a Proto-Egyptian hunter/gatherer people whose members had differing amounts of both Semitic and black African genes.
