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?
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.....
Egypt was the first great cosmopolitan society, drawing in different peoples from all over the middle east over 1,000s of years.
Given the proximity of Egypt to ancient Nubia (Sudan) there is little doubt that people of the Negroid race migrated to Egypt and lived there as well, along with other peoples and people who were long there before those migrations.
However, claiming a pure “racial” identity back then to ancient Egypt would be like claiming one for the US today and by most accounts the Negroid component was less than it is in the US today.
Modern history has continued to redefine “Egyptian”, due to Greek, Roman and eventually Arab and Muslim conquerors who supplied their own additions to the Egyptian population. The majority of Egypt today is said to be, genetically, semitic, in the same family as most “Arabs” and Jews.
The mummies of the Pharoahs have been around long enough to be studied over and over. The face of Tut, the face of Ramses...they were not Black. Their skin was darkened in the mummification process, but they were not Black.
Of course they are African ... were born on the continent of Africa. Just because you were born on the continent of Africa does not mean your skin color is black.