[mnehring]

According to the drawings they made of themselves, they were White.

??????

If the colors have stayed true over the year, they seem very representative of most North African nations we see now.

[bedolido]

tanned well???

[ClearCase_guy]

Egyptian art typically portrays Nubians are black-skinned and Egyptians are effectively red-skinned. The Egyptians clearly thought of themselves as “not as dark as those African fellows”. Same is true today. Swarthy? Yes. Black? No.

[CondorFlight]

“I suppose Cleopatra was black as were all her Greek ancestors?.......”

Shame on those racists who call Cleopatra Greek!!Cleopatra was MACEDONIAN, and there was a very clear distinction made in Alexandria between those of MACEDONIAN descent—particularly among the rulers—and the GREEK commoners of the populace!

As for Tut, WE HAVE HIS BODY! We don’t have to be in any doubt as to what he was. We can do DNA tests or any other kinds of tests required.

[PUGACHEV]

The Egyptians didn't always use true colors when depicting a person, especially if that person was the subject of the painting. Usually, the Egyptians followed a simple stylistic convention of rendering a male in a reddish hue and a woman with a yellow skin tone. But if they wanted to, the Egyptian artist might color a mythic figure blue or black to show their connection with the sky or the night. Sometimes, as an example, you'll see pharaohs rendered in green, the color of lush crops, to show his life-giving attributes.

But so far as I've seen, when the Egyptians wanted to make a point about a subject's race, they knew what colors to use. Normally, you find this in paintings depicting the pharaoh or his troops crushing the Nubians or the Hittites, or some other race they warred with. In depicting blacks, the Egyptians were almost comical in exaggerating negroid features: rounded heads, curly hair, triangular faces. Follow the link below to a picture of Tut smiting the Nubians, taken from small box found in his tomb. Clearly the Egyptian artist knew how to distinguish King Tut from the Africans.

http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/um/painting01.jpg

[SauronOfMordor]

If the colors have stayed true over the year, they seem very representative of most North African nations we see now.

And other paintings plainly depict Black, sub-Saharran Africans (but as servants, not as part of the ruling class)

[SauronOfMordor]

If the colors have stayed true over the year, they seem very representative of most North African nations we see now.

Yes, they were brown-skinned North Africans, as distinct from sub-Saharan black Africans, which is what he meant

[ktscarlett66]

Thinking the same thing here. Most likely, like many countries on the continent of Africa and in the Middle East, natives came in every color from pale to blue-black.

And if there is no mention of Africa, that’s a little odd but not terribly significant, IMO. Guess they figured everyone already knew that..? I saw an exhibition at the Smithsonian years ago on Indian/Mayan/Aztec civilization and the Spanish conquest. They didn’t *SAY* the soldiers were from Spain..lol.

Come to think of it, they didn’t tell me the Mayans or Spaniard were black or brown or red either....

[Osage Orange]

Don't bring facts to this thread.....

Shame on you!