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How do ancient pharoahs have a bearing on modern life?

Who decides which ancient civilization has a bearing on modern life, anyway? Apparently, you?

Could you feel the way you do because ancient Egyptians and Greeks were "white", whereas the other societies you mentioned are "people of color"? Sure sounds racist to me.

Could you feel the way you do because ancient Egyptians and Greeks were "white", whereas the other societies you mentioned are "people of color"? Sure sounds racist to me.

Welll, ancient egyptians weren't "white", they were "brown". They weren't even pure Caucasians, but looking at the paintings on their tombs seem to have been a Caucasian-Nubian-Ethiopian mix. That's in the Old Kingdom. In the Middle Kingdom they acquired more Semitic, Libyan and Berber blood (and maybe Mycenean Greek through the Sea Peoples/Philistines). In the Late Kingdom there were Assyrian, Persian invasions and Nubian Pharoahs.

The Ptolemys were Greek in ethnicity

Anyway, back to my point -- there's no such thing as the "white race", there are only Caucasians, Negroids and Mongoloids. Caucasians are the second most diverse grouping after the Negroids, with skin tones ranging from colorless (white) to near black (Dravidians) and with various shades of brown in between. The hair color also varys from India to England.