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To: SunkenCiv
The Afrocentrists and such experts as Al Sharpton call the ancient Egyptians black. In Egyptian art you can find some individuals who appear to be black, but the Egyptians seem to have seen themselves as different from the definitely black people south of them. St. Paul was mistaken for an Egyptian at one point and there is no reason to think he looked black (entirely of Israelite ancestry as far as we know).

I recall a DNA study some time ago that estimated that 20% of Egyptian DNA is like sub-Saharan African DNA. Of course the modern percentages may be different because of sub-Saharan Africans being imported in post-Roman times thanks to the Muslim trans-Saharan slave trade.

21 posted on 03/10/2019 6:04:19 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
The false dichotomy of that stark "were they black or white" is going on in Afrocentrism as well as right here on FR -- Egypt wasn't all one thing.

In their art, they were much more vernacular even while being stylized, typically showing men with darker skin (because they spent more time outdoors) and women with lighter skin (because they spent more time indoors). They also portrayed Asiatics (Semites, mostly) in specific ways, black Africans such that they are recognizable today, Keftiu, Pereset, etc -- and the importance of each human portrayed is often signaled by their relative sizes.

Greeks arrived in great numbers before, during, and after Persian rule, as did other less familiar groups who went where the action was. Roman rule meant former borders were down and transportation was simpler than it had ever been (and perhaps was going to be up until modern times) so there isn't much of a surprise that there were changes in the population's DNA. Roman rule had a nebulous boundary, and Roman influence via trade had a very great reach. A bear that was native to Africa was hugely popular in the Roman "games", and wound up extinct due to that use.
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29 posted on 03/11/2019 5:16:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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