Why did people think that ancient Egyptians were black?

Question

They've done DNA testing that have confirmed that ancient Egyptians are the same people that live there today- middle easterners, not blacks.

Also, the art depicting the ancient Egyptians have middle eastern features, not black.

This isn't a racist question despite what some people might claim, it's purely in the interest of science and history.

Answer 1

Egyptians of the Upper Nile were brown skinned mediterranian in appearance The lower nile dwellers were much darker and could be considered black These were the Nubians. Upper Egypt invaded the lowere reaches of the Nile and spread its empire South absorbing many of the Nubians into the court and jobs amongst the Nobility
King Shabaka was the first Nubian Pharoh.

Ever since the time of the Hyksos invasion and the fall of the Second Kingdom, the demographic shift amongst the Egyptian population had been against the original Whites. Slowly at first, but then speeding up, non-Whites or mixed racial types began to make up more and more of that country's population - drawn in as slaves, laborers, immigrants or invaders.

These other racial types were of two sorts: Semites (whom the Egyptians called "Sand Dwellers") and Blacks, from region of Nubia in the far south (present day Sudan). A review of Egypt's relations with Nubia is therefore crucial to understanding what happened to the White Egyptians, and why they vanished.



RACE WAR WITH NUBIA

Clashes between the Egyptians and the Black Nubians had long been a feature of Egyptian history, with the first campaigns against the Nubians being launched by Old Kingdom pharaohs around 2900 BC. In 2570 BC, Pharaoh Sneferu launched a concerted attack upon Nubia. Egyptian records show that 70,000 prisoners were taken, a figure that must have been a staggering amount at the time. In 1296 BC Egypt conquered Nubia and built a series of massive forts to protect Egypt's southern borders against the Nubians, with the most famous of these being the fort at Buhen, that had walls which were 111 meters high and 4.5 meters thick.

Along the banks of the southern Nile huge stones were erected upon which, in hieroglyphics still visible today, the passage of Blacks past those points was forbidden - the first public "Whites Only" signs in history.

At the time of the Hyksos invasion of Egypt, many local Nubian kings allied themselves with the Hyksos and inflicted defeats upon the weakened Egyptians. When the Hyksos were finally driven out, the White Egyptians exacted a terrible revenge upon the Blacks, launching many campaigns of conquest and suppression against them, all the while bringing back thousands into Egypt as slaves - a racial time bomb which was eventually to destroy Egyptian civilization.

EGYPTIAN WRITINGS ABOUT BLACKS

The White Egyptians left many written references to the Black population in Nubia and in their own midst. In fact, at one point, their writings record a law that forbade Blacks from entering their country at all. Egyptians of the Upper Nile considered their people to be the Pure race

Answer 2

Black Egyptian Art

Answer 3

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Why did people think that ancient Egyptians were black?
They've done DNA testing that have confirmed that ancient Egyptians are the same people that live there today- middle easterners, not blacks.

Also, the art depicting the ancient Egyptians have middle eastern features, not black.

This isn't a racist question despite what some people...

Answer 4

First of all, there is NO such ashort "Middle Eastern" DNA because Middle Eastern isn't a race. Majority of the people in the Middle East (outside of the Arabian Gulf) are full caucasian. Caucasus mountains = caucasian, which are in the middle east. Nothing has "confirmed" the race of the Ancient Egyptians yet, but I'm guessing they weren't black because different mummies show different things. Also, afrocentrists on Facebook like to post ancient Egyptian paintings of Nubians bidding farewell to the Ancient Egyptians, crop the real egyptians out and say "ancient egyptians were black." What are they trying to prove by lying to people like that? They even harrass modern Egyptians who bring up science in the comments and discredit them, and tell them to take their "albino asses" back to where they came from. What's also funny about afrocentrists is that they only use the bible (& misinterpret it) when it comes to trying to prove the ancient Egyptians were black.

Answer 5

Egyptians Were Not Black

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The Egyptians themselves said they descended from the Ethiopians. They were Hamitic/Niolitic Africans, ie Ethiopians, Kenyans. The Arabs didn't arrive until 700 ad and they incorporated the culture and people as part of their own. But Egypt is a decidedly african civilization. Its insulting to every race to suggest that blacks simply stayed in the lower part of Africa when the people migrated all over the world. All black Africans don't look alike either. The Sudanese, who are thin, tall and very dark look different than the Khoisians of South Africa with their peppercorn hair and yellow brown skins, who look different than the Bantu blacks of west Africa with their wooly hair and brown-black skins, who look different from the Ethiopians who have wavy hair and very brown skins. And to say look at the people there now is ridiculous because 500 years ago, America was full of Native Americans, and now there are almost none. People migrate, and mix. Also, to say look at the walls is ridiculous as well. The sculptures show people with prothaganism, a decidedly Black African trait, and wooly hair. All black people do not have skin the color of night, there are different levels in the shade of brown or wooly hair. Blacks cannot be removed from Egypt or Africa, and finally scholarship is catching on to this. The last thing Egyptians were, were white Anglo Saxons from Europe. The Meditteranian whites, ie Greeks, arrived very late in the game, after the height of Egyptian Civilization. They certainly weren't white. People tend to associate white with Caucasian bone structure when that bone structure originated in Africa, not the Caucus mountains as is claimed. And since the Ethiopians have caucasian bone structure, people wish to classify them as whites, when the darkest people on earth have this bone structure. Even if they were Middle Eastern, they were not white, not in the sense that Americans like to use the term. Egypt became a multicultural civilization that the world has the right to be proud of, but the original people were dark African people, and I don't think its right that people attempt to remove blacks from this culture when so many things point to their origin. Sorry for the rant, but I have always found many portions of this debate irritating and just wanted to speak my piece. I really liked this question because you seem very open minded.

Answer 7

Some of the controversy stems from the famed Queen of Sheba...who by the way there is no evidence she ever existed. She supposedly controlled egypt before the egyptians and also built the great sphinx...supposedly it was really had a lion head and not a human. You might notice that so much care was put into the creation of the body, yet the head is not in proportion and is also in better condition than the rest of the body lending credit to the idea that it has been re carved, and that its really old, which means the egyptians didn't build it. (ps the nose was blown of by Napolian's army)

Answer 8

The belief that egypt was black was a belief they held up to 1830 intil european revisionist changed the history of egypt to suit there impearlism over africans. Research what the anicent greeks like strabo and plato and herodtus said of the egyptians they say they where black

Answer 9

if you have blonde hair it will naturally get bleached by the sun in the summer. There had been this guy in my class who had golden blonde hair that was a medium brown near the base. When he came back to university after summer vacation, it was nearly platinum blonde!

Answer 10

I think your answer depends on what you consider to be "black". If you mean black as in African, than the Egyptians are, as you'd say, 'black' because Egypt is on the continent of Africa.

If you think 'black' means you have a colored comlection, well, I don't know... some Egyptians could be 'black' and some could not. That also depends on how much color you think a person has to have to make them 'black'.

In response to your DNA comment: Egypt is right next to the Middle East and I think it may be considered part of the Middle East. People have traveled between the two places for thousands of years. The groups of people have probably inter-married and maybe that's why they look similar to you.

If you're still confused, just call people from Egypt: "Egyptians" and leave color out of the whole thing.

Answer 11

According to religion. The bible or the ancient book Torah tells us that black people are linage of Ham. Phut is son of Ham. Bingo he's black, therefore ancient egyptians are black people. And DNA doesn't lie, he has told you the truth. Don't listen to those most morons white supremacists!!! evolution-joke@ blacks originated from ape, and whites?