Why do people want to portray the ancient Egyptians as anything but black?

Question

*when there are streams of evidence that they were...black*

*there is also evidence that the original woman is the Asiatic black woman*

*this is the knowledge that is kept from so many people, why do you think it is?*

Elizabeth...if thinking that makes you feel better...

It seems to me like you don't want to accept the truth :)

no i'm not going to get over it...you seem very interested in what I have to say though...thanks! :)

Answer 1

April - you basically illuminated the problem. If you are historian then you know that historians do not know for certain how old Egypt is so you can not say "most of history."

It was the Arabs who destroyed egypts ecology when they came with there flocks of goats and overgrazed the land.

Egypt is in Africa and it stands to reason that Africans built it.

Answer 2

Egypt is very old. It was in the bible, wasn't it? I watched a documentary about how the world became populated. It came from the country Namibia in Africa, then progressed into Asia, then the Middle East, then Europe. The documentary is a PBS special called "Journey of Man." It is not made up. So, there is no way ancient Egyptians were not Black. People say they weren't because their skin was not very dark. People keep thinking that Black means very dark skin. Black people are also Brown.

Answer 3

First, because they were not black. Sorry, but you cannot distort facts and expect everyone else to believe them. The ancient Egyptians were much more closely related to the Semitic peoples and so were probably dark brown, certainly not black. There were black people in the Egyptian empire as the Egyptians conquered Libya and Nubia.
Are you sure about Asiatic black woman or are you trying to say Asians are black as well?
The knowledge is not kept from people. It is readily available on the web but is so unscientific and so unprovable because it is counter to the facts that most people, at least the thinking ones, ignore it.

Oh lord! You ignore the facts and try to say I don't accept the truth. The truth is the ancient Egyptians were Semitic. No Semite is black, it is all science, anthropology and genetics. Of course, science is an anathema to you because it disproves your childish fantasies. You need to live in the real world and come out of your strange delusions.

Answer 4

There was a time that what is now regarded as Egypt was indeed ruled by a black tribe from Sudan. But, for most of Egypt's history ( 5000 BC to 33 BC) Egypt was ruled by arabic peoples, and the final dynasty, Ptolomy, (the last one was Cleopatra VII) was Greek...

Answer 5

1. Elizabeth is correct, regardless of whether or not you wish to hear it.

2.How many times are you going to ask the same question, and ignore the answers?

3. How many times are you going to ask the same question regardless of whether or not you ignore the answers?

4. Please tell us what you mean by 'the original woman', when humankind in one form or another goes back a couple million years.

Answer 6

There was a Cleopatra movie released around 2000 and the lead role was played by an African-American actress.

Answer 7

Probably, for the same reason why European Renaissance painters depicted the Holy Family as blond, fair skinned, with blue eyes, when they were nothing of the sort in that they were Semitic people.

Answer 8

i know right! it's like, cut it out! you want to say all of these things about africa, yet you are willing to make them look chinese or something. someone said that egypt was in asia once and that got me mad.

Answer 9

I guess it's because people cling to ignorance. It's the same people who call any spanish speaker a Mexican.

Answer 10

This is the fourth time you have asked this question. get over it already!