Black Genesis (cont.)
By Robert Bauval & Thomas Brophy
About the bombshell 2007 discovery at
Jebel Uwainat, section Pharaonic
Inscriptions!
A
Cartouche of a King!:
By November 27, Marai and
Borda had already been walking and searching for nine days. On that
day, just as they were about to arrive back at camp for lunch, Borda
scanned with his powerful binoculars the last remaining section of
boulders that lay strewn on a slope. They were in a region at the
southern rim of Jebel Uwainat—which is some 50 kilometers
(about 31 miles) into Sudanese territory—an area into which it
is dangerous to venture. (In September 2008 a group of Italian
tourists was kidnapped at Jebel Uwainat by rebels, and they endured a
two-week ordeal before they were freed after a gunfight between the
rebels and the Egyptian military.) As Borda panned with his
binoculars, he suddenly saw an unmistakable shape on the surface of
one of the larger boulders some 100 meters (about 328 feet) from
where he stood. It was a shape that he had seen many times before—but
only hundreds of kilometers from Jebel Uwainat.
 Bauval and Marai examine
newly discovered cave art in April 2008, near Jebel Uwainat, the
“Mark Borda Cave”. Note that the back wall of the cave
appears to be constructed of megalithic blocks.  And, detail of domestic
scene in the “Mark Borda Cave”.
He exclaimed to Marai in
disbelief, “There is a pharaonic cartouche on that boulder!”
As he moved closer, focusing his eyepiece with growing excitement, he
began to see hieroglyphic inscriptions inside and outside the
cartouche (see plate 3). The two men could barely contain their
excitement, for there it was, after decades of speculation,
incontestable evidence that the ancient Egyptians managed to reach
this remote place after all! The whole geography of ancient Egypt
suddenly changed before their eyes…
 Thomas Brophy (left) and
Robert Bauval at the Uwainat Inscriptions, April 2008.
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