A Sculpture Depicting King Tut as a Black Man Is Sparking International Outrage

ARTnet ^ | May 22, 2023 | Sarah Cascone

[ChessExpert]

Tut-tut.

[Antihero101607]

“𝘞𝘦 𝘸𝘶𝘻 𝘒𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘴!”

[PGR88]

The world needs to push back against America’s sick, woke, fake, politicized leftist culture - because that’s where this BS originates

We are the (neo) Marxists now.

[al baby]

[V_TWIN]

That's stupid.....everybody knows it's Steve Martin!

[V_TWIN]

Beat me by 39 seconds 😏

[tet68]

He lives in Arizona, has a house made out of stona.

[al baby]

no worries gmta

[1Old Pro]

Egyptians are probably the most offended, they do not like to be referred to as African.

[Boogieman]

“the racial identity of ancient Egyptians has been a topic of spirited debate for decades”

No, it has not. You can’t call something a debate when one side is 100% supported by indisputable evidence, and the other side has no evidence at all.

[daku]

Doesn’t get much whiter than that

[Salman]

It's part of African American folklore (almost to the point of being a religious doctrine) that *all* ancient Egyptians were black. This is based on some of the very earliest statues having black features, and never mind any of what happened over the next 3000 years.

Didn't know that insanity had jumped the pond. I guess African Americans are just that cool, right? /sarc

[Ezekiel]

That's stupid.....everybody knows it's Steve Martin!

"I was born a poor black child."

[nickcarraway]

They also say the Olmecs were black.

[dfwgator]

“You mean I’m going to stay this color?”

[Fido969]

He’s my favorite honkey.

[Sam Gamgee]

I think there might be a good argument that the citizens of Egypt were black; however their leaders could have very well been a different race entirely.

[AZJeep]

Cleopatra - “and nothing is known about her maternal ancestry”
________________

Another wrong! There is a lot known about her maternal ancestry:
Ptolemy dynasty followed Egyptian customs and married within the family, often their sisters! Or at best the other Macedonians.
Exception - One ancestor was Persian princes.
Cleopatra has no Egyptian ancestry and definitely not any Black one.

As far as king Tut, he was al least Egyptian.
But Egyptian are and never been black.
The only time there were black pharaohs in Egypt was the Kushite 25th dynasty (ruling long after king Tut) Piye, Shabaka, Shebitku, Taharqa (known as Tirhaqa in the bible) and Tantamani.
It is actually kind of sad. The Black Americans has so few real heroes, they have to invented some more.

[windsorknot]