Their pictures of themselves from the Old and Middle Kingdoms show themselves as brown skinned, with the barbarian white skins to the north, lighter brown to the east and dark skins to the south.
Aren’t the ancient Egyptians considered white?
Not by Sharpton and other racial revisionists. But I think they were darker skinned Caucasians, as most North Africans and Middle Easterners were.
The ancient Egyptians were a mixed race cosmopolitan society. They conquered Cush (modern-day Sudan), and were sometimes conquered by them. There were Cushite pharaohs. There are ancient Egyptian busts that have Negroid features. I used to have a book with photos of such. I lent it out and it never returned.
Only Elizabeth Taylor.
Pick a skin color, any skin color, and you will find it native in Egypt.
I've been there twice and was rather amazed at what was "an Egyptian".
Geography -- East of Libya and North of Sudan-- and history, are what have most affected their genetic make up.
In the North in places like Alexandria, you'll find a lot of people who could pass for Europeans. In the Central part, they look like Arabs and in the South, Nubian Black.
The historical issue was that when Alexander the Great conquered Egypt, the descendants of his right-hand man, Ptolemy, sat of the throne of Egypt. And in Pharoaic tradition, brother married sister, so theoretically their bloodlines should have been pure Macedonian Greek. (Cleopatra was the last of the Ptolemies.) But there have been some recent finds that could indicate that there might have been more to the dynastic genetic make-up than that.
In any case, these recent Eastern European finds are fascinating. Thanks for the heads up, rabs.
Their pictures of themselves from the Old and Middle Kingdoms show themselves as brown skinned, with the barbarian white skins to the north, lighter brown to the east and dark skins to the south.