[Rebelbase]

Looks white to me.

(wasn't there a thread about this a few months ago?)

[P-40]

Sounds like a severe case of Too Much Time On My Hands...

[Mark was here]

I suppose everyone on the Eurasian continent is supposed to look Chinese?

[ClearCase_guy]

Morgan Freeman has it right. We have a race problem because people talk about race too much. As far as I'm concerned, the only racists I've known in the past 25 years have been blacks shouting about how people of one particular race are just no good.

[Rodney King]

This is silly. A simple look at hierogplyics (sp?) shows that 1. They had black pigement for their painting, and 2. They did not use the pigment for painting themselves.

[onedoug]

He's a dead polytheist.

[sauropod]

"We're visual people, so whatever they throw at us, we're going to take it as a fact, when in reality it's just a theory," said demonstrator Asante Waa. "We're afraid of the implications that this recreation is going to have on kids, especially on black kids."

Dear Mr. Waa. The reason everyone appears "black' to you is because you are suffering from a terminal crainial/rectal inversion. Of course everybody looks black then.

[Reactionary]

Oh, yes. The experts are going to take this politically correct stupidity "under consideration.

There are Egyptian scultpures of black Nubian slaves from Africa that are... painted black. There are also sculptures of Egyptians that aren't. The whole thing is another mythological, racist attack on scholarship undertaken by the seething racial proletariat.

[Brilliant]

These guys need to get a life. Who the heck (except them) cares what color Tut's skin was?

[LibFreeOrDie]

Perhaps Tut was just heavily tanned...

(And the young Barbra Striesand looked just like Queen Nefertiti. Does that make the ancient Egyptians Jewish?)

[Huntress]

Computer-generated likeness of King Tut:

King Tut's death mask:

The computer-generated likeness is pretty true to the mask, and looks like it could be an actual modern-day Egyptian. I don't see that the protesters have anything to complain about.

[AlaninSA]

I thought ancient Egypt was a real melting pot - a place (like Brazil) where people were content to simply be Egyptian, not African-Egyptian, Euro-Egyptian or Asian-Egyptian...

[RGSpincich]

"For the Image of the Living God (as Tutankhamun represents) to be replaced with anything else but a black man's is a slap in the face,"

I will refrain from saying one word about the living god lawn jockey down the street who is now white.

[fizziwig]

Now when he was a young man he never thought he'd see (King Tut)
People stand in line to see the boy king (King Tut)
How'd you get so funky (funky Tut)
Then you'd do the monkey
(Born in Arizona moved to Babylonia King Tut)
Now if I'd known the line would form to see him (King Tut)
I'd take up all my money and buy me a museum (King Tut)
Buried with a donkey (funky Tut)
He's my favorite honky
(Born in Arizona moved to Babylonia King Tut)
Dancing by the Nile
Ladies loved the style (waltzing Tut)
Rocking for a mile (walking Tut)
He ate a crockodile
He gave his life for tourism
Golden idol
He's an Egyptian!
They're selling you
Now when I die now don't think I'm a nut
Don't want no fancy funeral just one like old King Tut (King Tut)
He coulda won a grammy (King Tut)
Buried in his jammies
(Born in Arizona moved to Babylonia
Born in Arizona got a condo made of stone-a (sic) King Tut)

[Zuben Elgenubi]

We report, you decide

[RouxStir]

I say let it be known that the Egyptian pharohs were black....and that black Americans owe slave reparations to the Jews they enslaved, plus interest.

[Polybius]

The Egyptians were no less accomplished in painting than in portrait sculpture. In wall-paintings in Egyptian tombs and temples, the most minute details of daily life were rendered with a precision that still delights the eye today. One of the conventions of Egyptian art is that men were painted with reddish-brown skin, as if they spent most of their time outdoors. Women were painted with pale yellow skin, as if they spent most of their time indoors. .......... Foreigners of many nationalities make occasional appearances in Egyptian art--Hittites, Canaanites, Philistines, Greeks, Hottentots, and others. They are painstakingly depicted with their distinctive hairstyles, clothing, accoutrements, and skin color. Blacks, on the relatively rare occasions when they appear, are depicted with coalblack skin. Unmistakably Negroid hair and facial features are visible in many of these depictions. In addition, blacks are often shown wearing animal skins, whereas Egyptians are almost invariably dressed in white cotton. On the relatively rare occasions when blacks appear in egyptian art, they are commonly depicted as defeated enemies, mercenary soldiers, tribute bearers, or slaves. To argue that blacks played more than a peripheral role in the development of Egyptian civilization requires ignoring this massive record.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Does anybody know King Tut’s lineage?

For example, the Ptolemy’s (Cleopatra’s family) were from Macedonian and were direct descendants from a general of Alexander the Great’s army. Until Cleopatra’s reign, the court spoke Greek and not the language of their people. Cleopatra was the first one to speak whatever the masses spoke. In fact, Cleopatra spoke nine languages.

Also, they married among themselves.

What is my point? Was King Tut Egyptian?

Thank you.

[CaptRon]

There was a thread here a couple of days ago that said the gene for skin color has been found.

Should be simple enough to settle this now to the satisfaction of anyone for whom this question is all that important.

[JohnBovenmyer]

IIRC some of the mummies of pharoahs have been found to have red hair.