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To: presidio9

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.


22 posted on 09/26/2007 12:13:43 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli

Shh... you’re not supposed to mention the semitic family and the Arab and Jewish connection.

The uneducated will be confused.


34 posted on 09/26/2007 12:23:38 PM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife
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To: Wuli

Modern day Egyptians, who are a Semitic people who speak Arabic, are not the same people who inhabited Egypt under the Pharoahs. They are not even remotely related.


104 posted on 09/26/2007 11:15:11 PM PDT by Cincinna (HILLARY & HER HINO :: Keep the Arkansas Grifters out of the White house.)
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