Ancient Egyptians WERE white. Or at least, not sub-Saharan black Africans.
Nefertiti, ca. 1330 BC
The pyramid-building, banks-of-the-Nile-farming Egyptians probably came over from Mesopotamia (where agriculture is thought to have gotten started in the West), saw all the fertile farmland, slaughtered or drove off any prior hunter/gatherer people there, and took it for their own.