[Ptarmigan]

I am not surprised if there were Black pharoahs in Egypt. Tell the truth, Ancient Egyptians look like mixed race people, mostly Black and White.

Speaking of that, I have read that there were Black Chinese emperors, around the Shang Dynasty. Many ancient civilizations were diverse. Ancient Rome and China were very diverse. There are Black people in Asia, mostly in the southern part. One of them is called Negritos. Also, there is another tribe in the Andaman Islands of Indian Ocean, which look like African Bushman and Hottentots.

[blam]

"There are Black people in Asia, mostly in the southern part. One of them is called Negritos. Also, there is another tribe in the Andaman Islands of Indian Ocean, which look like African Bushman and Hottentots."

I believe these are some of the 'original' OUT OF AFRICA people...they all have old DNA. The Orang Asli have some of the oldest DNA on earth, if not the oldest.

"The Orang Asli are the indigenous minority peoples of Peninsular Malaysia. The name is a Malay term which transliterates as 'original peoples' or 'first peoples.' It is a collective term introduced by anthropologists and administrators for the 18 sub-ethnic groups generally classified for official purposes under Negrito, Senoi and Proto-Malay. They numbered 105,000 in 1997 representing a mere 0.5 per cent of the national population. "

[ZULU]

“I am not surprised if there were Black pharoahs in Egypt. Tell the truth, Ancient Egyptians look like mixed race people, mostly Black and White.”

The original Ancient Egyptians were an eastern Mediterranean type people who closely resembled Semitic and Berber peoples. They became a mixed race group as a result of an influx of Kushite slaves and soldiers - mainly archers. The book cited previously discusses this sinlge purely Kushite group of Pharoahs. But at that point in Egyptina history Ancient Egypt as a political entity was on the skids, having also experienced Lybian and ultimately Macedonian Dynasties.

If you look at Ancient Egyptian paintings of themselves, they clearly depict the men as red or brown skinned and the women as yellow or white skinned. Kushites were depicetd black and Lybians and Asians as white.

But being “Egyptian” was not a matter of race, but of culture. “Blacks” or “Asians” who accepted Egyptian culture and Egyptian gods were considered Egyptians.

[SunkenCiv]

...and of course, the Nubians had been beaten up, occupied, and squeezed for tribute by various Egyptian dynasties going quite far back in time, so it was really payback.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, from North Africa, was supposedly black as well. Not a problem for the Romans.