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To: Swordmaker
I think that both of the presented King Tut's are taking too much from the revisionist history that purports that the Egyptian Pharoahs were Negroid

I agree entirely. Since pharoahs routinely married daughters of foreign kings to cement treaties, the Egyptian royal families were more diverse genetically than the general population. But Egyptian artists knew how to do portraits and the many pictures of Tut at all ages do not resemble this PC nonsense. The most famous pharoah, Rameses II, had red hair and a very large hooked nose. (His mummy had red hair because it was dyed with henna, but microscopic analysis showed his hair had been red naturally when he was young).

9 posted on 10/15/2002 11:51:25 AM PDT by Seti 1
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To: Seti 1

Amenhotep III, father of Akhenaton, supposed father of Tut, did not take a foreign princess for his Great Royal Wife. Tiy, who became the mother of Akhenaton, was a commoner. Common to where, isn’t exactly clear.
Not sure who the mother of Tut was, but the usual hypothesis is a secondary wife of Akhenaton, named Kiya. Last I heard, nobody has any clue where she came from, Egypt or elsewhere, royalty or peasantry.
In any case, a Google image search of Tiy or Tiye will show you a typically African Negroid lady.


31 posted on 10/21/2009 10:25:54 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast ( If you have kids, you have no right of privacy that the govt can't flick off your shoulder.)
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