Top Egyptologist and Minister of Antiquities Criticizes Netflix’s “Cleopatra”

Greek Reporter ^ | April 18, 2023 | Alexander Gale

[cgbg]

History is written by the winners—and most of it is lies.

It is just getting more obvious these days.

[Varda]

Nations have changed demographics since ancient times. The Mediterranian was conquered by Arab Muslims since then. Arabs are a mix of west Asian and east African.
Example, ancient Greeks were pale which we can tell from how they painted themselves.

The painted replica of a c490 BC archer (at the Parthenon in Athens. The original statue came from the Temple of Aphaia on the Greek island of Aegina.
https://edu.rsc.org/resources/were-ancient-greek-statues-white-or-coloured/1639.article

[montag813]

The film on NASA, "Hidden Figures" also wildly exaggerated the contributions of Katherine Johnson to the space program, and cast a dark skinned black actress to play the very light-skinned, blue-eyed mulatto Johnson.

 

[daku]

I’d bet she also had a full head of her very own hair.

[No name given]

Unlike Jada or representative baldilocks Pressley.

[Sacajaweau]

makes it...just another black commercial...

[Reno89519]

We can’t let facts get in the way, can we?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember a man in my outfit in the USAF back in 1968 claiming Cleopatra was black. And he was a white man from Georgia!
Even then I knew she was Greek!

[Openurmind]

Don’t they have any history and creativity of their own? They are always plagiarizing works and history and trying to make it theirs. This is nothing to be proud of at all. It displays nothing but jealousy and envy. Do they unconsciously want to be white? Sure looks like it...

[Bratch]

[sevlex]

If it’s produced in the UK it will have a cast of blacks and south asians.

[NohSpinZone]

Trying to placate their inferiority complexes, jealousy, and envy is ruining our civilization. We are openly tearing down meritocratic ideals that made this country great in favor of forced representation. This has been already a disaster for employment and education via affirmative action. It’s now perverting culture and history.

It’s despicable.

[roving]

She had red hair. I would assume she had a more of a fair complexion

[cpdiii]

Using the same logic as those idiots in Hollyweird, we should cast Robert E. Lee as a free black that lead the Confederacy against the North.

Side note from history:
There were wealthy free blacks particularly around an upriver from New Orleans. They had slaves. They supported and some fought for the Confederacy. The media and Hollywood never acknowledge this. It all went down the memory hole.

[Openurmind]

I agree...

[combat_boots]

I learned that her family was Circassian.

[sphinx]

If she’s a good actress and sells the role more power to her.

That would be nope and nope. But selling the role is not why she was chosen.

[Celtic Conservative]

Zahi Hawass is a corrupt, hidebound autocrat. And many of his assumptions regarding Egyptology have been successfully challenged.

CC

[Chickensoup]

The Circassians (also referred to as Cherkess or Adyghe; Adyghe and Kabardian: Адыгэхэр, romanized: Adıgəxər) are an indigenous Northwest Caucasian ethnic group and nation native to the historical country-region of Circassia in the North Caucasus. As a consequence of the Circassian genocide, which was perpetrated by the Russian Empire in the 19th century during the Russo-Circassian

[HandyDandy]

Just think, in years to come, Dr Zahi Hawass will be depicted as black.