Posted on 09/26/2007 11:58:41 AM PDT by presidio9
Egyptian antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass insisted Tuesday that Tutankhamun was not black despite calls by US black activists to recognise the boy king's dark skin colour.
"Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilisation as black has no element of truth to it," Hawass told reporters.
"Egyptians are not Arabs and are not Africans despite the fact that Egypt is in Africa," he said, quoted by the official MENA news agency.
Hawass said he was responding to several demonstrations in Philadelphia after a lecture he gave there on September 6 where he defended his theory.
Protestors also claimed images of King Tut were altered to show him with lighter skin at the "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" exhibit which leaves Philadelphia for London on September 30.
The exhibition sparked an uproar when it kicked off in Los Angeles in June 2005 when black activists demanded that a bust of the boy king be removed because the statue portrays him as white.
The face of the legendary pharaoh, who died around 3,300 years ago at the age of just 19, was reconstructed in 2005 through images collected through CAT scans of his mummy.
The boy king's intact tomb caused an international sensation when it was discovered by Briton Howard Carter in 1922 near Luxor in southern Egypt.
Great...now can the Egypt antiquities chief rule on Bill Clinton?
. . . you really can't argue with the insane.
Of course, you can't give in to their demands either. Good on the director of antiquities.
Egyptians are neither Arabs nor Africans; they are space aliens!
Who else could have built the pyramids?
If the Egyptians aren’t black as they clearly are not, deal with it, you black activist nincompoops.
The Egyptians PAINTED all their statues. So did the Greeks. Modern people in India also paint statues. You really can’t tell the color of the subject of a bust by looking at the color of the stone.
This means that blacks should pay Jews reparations for slavery...
can’t you take x-rays or DNA analysis to determine the race?
If Black people would study our own REAL history, then we could be proud of who we are and what we have accomplished, and not need to INVENT a false history of so-called royalty which has nothing to do with the average Black person. And for the record, many East Indians and Arabs and Australians are darker than we are (in the US), and I wouldn’t call them “Black”.
I was in Baldwin Hills (a predominantly Black area of Los Angeles) a few years back. I noticed that the folks made Cleopatra out to be Black even though she has a Greek parent. I am White and Native American (Lenape/Cherokee) and don’t portray myself as only one. The truth is more important to me.
If Egyptians were black, who were the Nubians?
I thought Eddie Murphy was a dead ringer for Tut. No? Then why did he play him in an MJ video?
“He’s my favorite honkey.”
Can Al Sharpton be far behind?
Don't give me none of that jibba-jabba! Only a black man wears that kind of gold jewelry fool!
Two very prominent Roman generals were conversing when one of them, who came from an old Patrician family, told the other, a man of humble beginnings; “If you only had a family tree, you’d have everything.” To which the other general replied “That’s the difference between us-you’re at the bottom of your family tree; I’m at the top of mine.” Moral: only losers find it necessary to flaunt the successes of their ancestors.
Funny....I always thought he was gold.....
I thought Eddie Murphy was a dead ringer for Tut. No? Then why did he play him in an MJ video?
Please. It's well-known that this was what King Tut looked like.
Watch out for that quicksand cake!
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