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Oct 7, 2020 · The Beja people of north east Sudan and southern Egypt are living descendants of Ancient Egyptians. If you ever wondered from all the controversy what the Ancient Egyptians look like take a good look.
Nov 8, 2023 · The Beja people are a distinct social and cultural ethnic group in Sudan and Egypt that have suffered from neglect and marginalisation. Members of the Beja ethnic group of eastern Sudan raise the flag of the Beja Congress political group as they demonstrate in Suakin on October 9, 2021.
The Beja people (Arabic: البجا, Beja: Oobja, Tigre: በጃ) are a Cushitic ethnic group [5] native to the Eastern Desert, inhabiting a coastal area from southeastern Egypt through eastern Sudan and into northwestern Eritrea. [1]
The Beja people are nomads who have occupied their homelands across the Sudan, Eritrea and Egypt for more than 4,000 years. Some scholars believe they are related to the ancient Egyptians. In the course of their history, they accepted Islam and are 99 per cent Muslim.
The Beja are an important people group and represent the largest non-Arabic ethnic group between the Nile River and the Red Sea. They are an assertive people with small, strong, wiry frames, long noses, and oval faces. The Beja are said to be the descendants of Noah's grandson, Cush (son of Ham).
Apr 17, 2022 · There are five tribes, or “sociopolitical groups” associated with the Beja including: the Ababda which inhabit southern Egypt and northern Sudan; the Bisharin, who are located from Jebel Elba up towards Atbara; the Amarar, a tribe mostly found on Sudanese soil, and the Hadendowa and Beni Amer whose territory extends from Port Sudan to ...
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However, in the Eastern Desert of Sudan and Egypt, a pastoralist nomadic people ancestrally related to the modern Beja dominated the deserts for millennia.
