[edpc]

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.

Funny....I always thought he was gold.....

[RainMan]

Clearly, they could have painted his face black if it were indeed black, because they painted the alternating stripes on his headdress.

I went to Egypt and spent 2 weeks there. In the North, most Egyptians I met were a very light brown. Similar in color to Indians or Pakistani. The Egyptians themselves dont consider themselves black. The blacks in Egypt are generally regarded as being of Nubian descent ... which makes them inferior because Nubia was conquered by Egypt and therefore most Nubians were in Egypt as slaves.