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Yes the Beja are the nomads and the rulers of the desert since predynastic Egypt, in comparison the beduions in Sinai are Arab nomads that arrived recently into Egypt

Beja are not Nubians, Nubians are Not nomads and they only reside by the Nile north of Sudan & upper Egypt

The Beja inhabit the area between Nile River & Red Sea in Sudan, Eritrea & eastern desert in Egypt. majority of them live in Sudanese states on Red Sea.

Big clans are part of Aswan they are Besharia, 3ababda & also in border town halayeb & shalatin.

Their language is Afroasciatic and thier bloodline is less altered than COPTS in Egypt

An Egyptian reporter from Cairo with Egyptian Beja clans

Egyptian Beja girl in the 1920’s, if she has nothing to do with ancient Egypt I wonder who does honestly.

Ancient Egypt bloodline runs from Egypt into north Sudan literally, Nubians, Beja, and different Native arabaized clans are split between the two countries thanks to British colonial rule.

This is from Dabood temple now residing in Spain originally located in Aswan one of the wall paintings showing the 25th Dynasty pharaoh Adikhalamani offering water to an ancient Egyptian Goddess & a Beja God or cult symbol

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