ancient egyptians were cacussians ?

Question

Let consider, prsent egyptians are descedent of ancient egyptians.
If we look at egyptians except the few, most of them look like caussians except their brown skin color. It is natural science fact that environmental factor can control the melanin content in skin..My question is that is that possible ancient egyptians were fair skinned who became brown skinned in later stage due to africas hot humid condion.

Answer 1

The Ancien Egyptians were the same as modern Egyptians, and Semitic (arabic) in culture. Some of them - those of the ruling middle kingdom were black as coal, as in Nubian, and similar to ethiopians today. Ramese II had red hair, and black skin, it been found in his mummified remains.

The term Caucasian race is sometimes used to refer to people whose ancestry can be traced back to Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Russia, and in certain areas of Central Asia. In fact it has nothing to do with white skin but bone shape of the skull. Skin - that is a product of years within an environment. There were white skinned polynesians, who originate from the indian sub contenent.

The term Caucasian originated as one of the racial categories recognised by 19th century craniology — and is derived from the region of the Caucasus mountains, where the Biblical figure Japheth, ancestor of Europeans, is believed to have established his tribe prior to its migration into Western Europe[1].

Caucasoid race is a term used in physical anthropology to refer to people falling within a certain range of anthropometric measurements. The concept of a "Caucasian race" or Varietas Caucasia was first proposed under those names by the German scientist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840). studies based the classification of the Caucasian race primarily on skull features, which Blumenbach claimed were optimized by the Caucasian Peoples, and his was really eaten up by those Nazi's

Mount Caucasus, was chosen because of its proximity to Mount Ararat, the tallest peak in Turkey, where according to the Biblical account, Noah's Ark, eventually landed after the flood. The gelogicial term Caucussian has nothing what so ever to do with the origins of the Medeterainian peoples, including the Egyptians.

Historically, the Russian borderlands of the Caucasus and Georgia were a source of sex slaves for Middle Eastern and Mediterranean peoples.

Answer 2

No they have darker skin. what sense would that make? egypt is all about the sun, so the people had to be darker. their skin tone took a light stage when hebrews and other cultures up north came down and merged with them thats why some egyptians today look like middle european. but for the record they were certainly not caucasian. plus if you check history caucasians were not completely informed about the size of africa so it took voyages to go out and meet the other natives

Answer 3

Well, yea, thats a good point but egyptians are a whole different race of their own, its kinda like saying we are chinese because they also have fair skin. And people now spend less time in the sun so wouldn't you think their melanin content would decrease eventually, so i think they may've always been that color.

Answer 4

I don't know. But the caucassians are actually a mountain range in Europe where some fair-skinned cave dwellers lived who populated Europe. The Mediterranean isn't that big and impassible. Cleopatra herself was 100% greek anyway. Many of the current inhabitants of Egypt are not decended from ancient Egyptians. There have been to many holy wars for that to be true.

Answer 5

that or they have always looked that way. Look at the creations of nefertiti that they used to make, a lot of ancient considered themselves brown

Answer 6

Evolution would definately favor darker skins in areas with larger amounts of intense sunlight to skin cancer rates.

Race/Ethnicity Men Women
All Races 25.6 per 100,000 men 16.1 per 100,000 women
White 29.0 per 100,000 men 18.6 per 100,000 women
Black 2.2 per 100,000 men 1.8 per 100,000 women
Asian/Pacific Islander 2.7 per 100,000 men 2.0 per 100,000 women
American Indian/Alaska Native+ 3.1 per 100,000 men 3.3 per 100,000 women
Hispanic~ 5.3 per 100,000 men 5.4 per 100,000 women

As you can see lighter skinned people would die of skin cancer much more frequently than darker skinned people. This would lead over many generations to the lighter skinned genes becoming increasingly rare. And these are modern rates with our sunscreen and living indoors most of the time. Imagine how much higher they'd be if we were out in the sun most of the time like the Egyptians.

Answer 7

No, most of them had olive skin and some of them were darker. It's a fact. Look at the art, they weren't white people. That's about the dumbest thing I've ever heard. If anything, they'd be closer to people of Arabia.

Answer 8

Yes, skin pigmant changes are very prevelant in evolution and don't take many generations to take place. Egypt was much more lush during the reign of Ancient Egypt.

Answer 9

It could be. but you have to consider other factors. The shape of their faces were quite different from now, and there could be other things.
but without hardcore evidence, we'll just never know. Part of the enjoyment of history is wondering what the answer is.

Answer 10

So what?
Does this change anything.