Did the Arab Conquest Replace the Ancient Egyptians? The Myth of Population Replacement

Daily News Egypt ^ | November 18, 2025 | Mohamed Samir

[Cronos]

A central claim among those who deny a link between ancient and modern Egyptians is that subsequent invasions replaced the original population. This is not supported by demographic, genetic, or linguistic evidence. Genetic studies show ancient Egypt DNA continues.

• The Greek and Roman Periods: The Ptolemaic Greeks and later the Romans ruled as small, elite minorities. Their demographic footprint on the overall gene pool of Egypt was negligible.
• The Arab Conquest (7th Century CE): This was the most significant cultural event, introducing Arabic and Islam. However, this was a case of elite dominance and cultural diffusion, not population replacement.
  • The Genetic Impact: Studies of modern Egyptians show a genetic contribution from the Arabian Peninsula, estimated to be around 17%. However, this is an addition to the pre-existing gene pool, not a substitution for it. Foundational North African genetic markers remain dominant.
  • Linguistic and Genetic Continuity: Further evidence against replacement lies in language. The Coptic language is the final developmental stage of ancient Egyptian, providing a direct, unbroken link back thousands of years. Furthermore, genetic studies of modern Coptic Egyptians, who have a lower admixture rate from later periods, show a particularly strong ancestral link to the pre-Islamic population, serving as a living testament to this continuity.
• Later Eras: Later rule by Mamluk and Ottoman elites from the 13th to the 19th centuries followed this same pattern of a foreign administrative class ruling over the native Egyptian population, with negligible genetic impact on the populace as a whole.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: egypt; fakenews; islamicpropaganda; mohamedsamir; rop

[BobL]

I guess you do just mean Egypt. Virtually the ENTIRE WESTERN MEDIA denies that population replacement is taking place in their own lands, and only leaders like Trump and Putin are pointing it out where it’s worst, in Western Europe.

[Cronos]

The article, the topic and the entire post is purely about “Did the Arab Conquest Replace the Ancient Egyptians? The Myth of Population Replacement”

Specifically about Egyptians. Not about Libyans, Syrians, Saudis leave alone about Europe or the Americas

[Bayard]

The reason population replacement is happening in the west is feminism and contraception.

[Kid Shelleen]

Interesting article; I put the URL in GROK and asked for a summary. This is a snippet.

Egyptians are primarily descendants of ancient Egyptians with a Northeast African core ancestry. However, they are culturally and linguistically Arab due to the 7th-century Arab conquest, which introduced Arabic as the dominant language and Islam as the majority religion

[Thommas]

I believe that Mohamed Samir, and his brethren, will uptake as many articles as necessary to obfuscate any thoughts of Population Replacement.

A recent international study found that modern Egyptians share more ancestry with sub-Saharan Africans than ancient Egyptians did,
whereas ancient Egyptians were found to be most closely related to ancient people from the Middle East and Western Asia.

This DNA analysis indicates that Population Replacement has come and gone before. Refuse such predicate to your peril.

[Doctor Congo]

The official country name is The Arab Republic of Egypt.

That should make all Egyptians’ blood boil. They are Egyptians, not Arabs.
Completely different. They were one of the greatest civilizations in the ancient world. They did it on their own, with no help from the Arabs at all.

[Wuli]

When mom and dad are looking for success of their children the encourage their children to adopt the culture (and religion) norms of the people that can give them the most benefit, or, in the case of many Arab conquests, the culture that holds the keys to success or servitude.

Egyptian people made choices and in order to get ahead they chose the religion and language of the class of their conquerors. After many generations they became Egyptian by blood only.

[marron]

Egyptian DNA survives but their culture does not. They were completely Arabized. Their language survives only as the liturgical language of the persecuted Christians. Essentially no one speaks it day to day.

[Fiji Hill]

The Arab Conquest (7th Century CE AD)

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