full title -- Cleopatra Not First Female Pharoah [sic] of Her Line: Queen Arsinoë II, an Olympian medalist, may have ruled Egypt 200 years before Cleopatrathe monochrome image links to a similar article on Eurekalert.
This image shows Queen Arsinoë II in the Philae temple, Aswan, Egypt. [Credit: Maria Nilsson]
Queen Arsinoë II ruled Egypt as pharaoh 200 years before Cleopatra's time, claims new research. [Metropolitan Museum of Art, Image Credits DCL]
Cleopatra is really an amazing historical figure. The Ptolemys only spoke Greek and wouldn’t mix with the conquered Egyptians.
The Egyptian religion allowed the Ptolemys to retain power over centuries, including their linguistic and racial purity. Inbreeding being a common method.
Cleopatra was the first to speak Egyptian and I’d thought that gave her special acknowledgment in their history.
Arsineo does.
"Why whites people always got to edge in on our action"?
King Tut Scottish? How Far Can DNA Theories Stretch?
"If Tut were Scottish, should we rename these to 'Haggis Jar Stoppers'? When the latest Tutankhamun study was published in Jama, there were quite a few outcries that although the study looked into the direct ancestry of King Tut, it fully ignored the pointers to the pharoah's racial ancestry, possibly hidden in the pharaoh's DNA.
As usual, Dr Zahi was accused of many things, most notable charges of 'hiding that King Tut was black/white/purple.' Now a retired physicist took the time to write down some of the DNA test results exposed in the Discovery Channel programme that featured the study's results and concluded the data shown in the docu reveals Tut's haplogroup as R1b, one of the most common Y-chromosome haplogroups in Europe, especially the United Kingdom. So, err... was Tutankhamun Scottish, rather than black or white?"
(My yDNA is R1b too)
Wonder if she was tested for steroids afterwards......
