Ancient Egypt was part of black Africa. The obsession with death really started with one man, the pharaoh, and trickled down becoming part of their religion over the course of time. That civilization lasted 3,000 years and the Arabs came from outside the same as the Persians and Greeks did in their time.
My point exactly.
Nope. The Egyptians were much more closely connected to the Middle East and Mediterranean worlds, genetically and culturally, than to sub-Saharan Africa.