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.
Pre-clovis sites are finally being acknowledged, even though my 'heretical' archaeology professor in the '70s said humans on the North American continent likely went back 30+,000 years.
It appears even that (wild-eyed estimate at the time) may be insufficient to adequately describe the scope of human existence here.
As for European presence here, who knows? One thing is certain, that people of almost all cultures had at least some members of their societies who travelled, whether out of curiosity, for trade (profit), or conquest.
I think scholars have grossly underestimated the extent in an innate desire to portray history as a linear progression, and underestimated the setbacks along the road to present development as well, despite the ruins of technologically capable cultures which stare us in the face.
Somehow advancement has been equated with technology, and not a question of whether the technology was appropriate for the time and place.
Much as 'finding something the last place you look' works, the inertia against developing unneeded technologies with resources otherwise put to more imminent use persists to this day.
Human nature has little changed, the same motivations and contrary forces exist today as have been since the dawn of time.
That, also.
He looks white to me
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_English
And we love it....:)
[an’ it’s Appa-LATCHun, thank ye very much]
If I remember correctly several ancient sources claim Cleopatra to be attractive. It was Roman sources sympathetic to Octavian who mostly painted her in a negative light. From the coins and busts that are claimed to be Cleopatra in her younger years, I always pictured her something like this.
Note: this topic is from . Thanks presidio9. Just an update.
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