wow, a thread resurrected from 2006. What was I doing in January 2006. I think I had just been 6 months in a new job in JP Morgan Chase and was using my down time to catch up on the history threads
Anyway, Papabear, to your point, Mesopotamia was first populated by Sumerians, who seem related to Elamites and the Harappan civilisation.
Most likely these were all Dravidians -- the Sumerians called themselves Sa-gi-ga or the black headed people
Now, the Dravidians are Caucasians, just not Indo-Europeans (just as Semites are Caucasians but not Indo-Europeans)
So your point about Egyptians being Caucasians (through the AfroAsiatic branch that includes Semites and Berbers), yes, but not to the Indo-European/Aryan branch
So your point about Egyptians being Caucasians (through the AfroAsiatic branch that includes Semites and Berbers), yes, but not to the Indo-European/Aryan branch I do not disagree with anything you said. I was just positing that the Egyptians and North Africans might be descended from people who migrated there from southwest Asia, rather than being natively African.