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CARTER HOWARD: (1874-1939) On the origins of the peoples and civilisation of the Nile - CARTER HOWARD: (1874-1939) English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922. A.L., unsigned, two pages, 4to, Collingham Gardens, London, 20th June 1930, to Count Eric von Rosen. The letter, seemingly complete, is Carter´s retained draft copy of his correspondence, thanking Rosen for their kindness in sending ´those extremely interesting volumes and pamphlets´ and remarking ´I now see that we are much of the same thinking with regard to origin of the peoples and civilization of the Nile valley. That they were originally a marsh dwelling people becomes evident. I think, from the permanent buildings along the Nile - at least in Egypt, Nubia and parts of the Sudan. For putting aside what might be termed auxiliary ornament (also of marsh type) the whole of the detail of those buildings present in imitation features of temporary nature such as would pertain to a marsh dwelling people. Again, although the so called lotus columns of Egyptian architecture is a misnomer, the principal emblems of the Two Kingdoms (Upper & Lower Egypt) are the lotus and papyrus´ , further adding ´I am, personally, of the opinion that the common origins of that civilization come from a region somewhere near Eastern Equatorial Africa. The materials of the earliest objects found in Egypt, the flora and fauna depicted upon them, all points towards that possibility. That the people who made those objects....were brown coloured, thin lipped, and always at war with Negroid, Libyan and Asiatic peoples becomes evident from the monuments´ . An interesting text. VG Count Eric von Rosen (1879-1948) Swedish nobleman, patron, explorer, and ethnographer, who was also a leading figure in Sweden´s own Nazi movement during the 1930s. Rosen was the brother-in-law of Hermann Goring from 1923-31.