Were ancient Egyptians black or white? What do you believe?

Question

Were ancient Egyptians black or white? What do you believe? In class we had a professor from Egypt speak who said that they were black african. What I want to know is, is why everytime you turn on the television do you see white actors portraying Egytians? lol I think its hilarious. It's like having an African American play a Julius Caesar. :) What do you guys think about that??

The reason I ask , is that some of the black students in the class were really offended and said that us whites are always trying to take credit for everything. I believe that alot of things are "whitewashed", but what can we do about that? I think yeah sometimes we do take credit for a lot of things, but not all things.

The reason I am curious on your opinions is because I feel that there is a lot of false information circulating within our education systems. I mean, you have to wonder what other information is false. Although I think alot is.

Answer 1

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 2

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Were ancient Egyptians black or white? What do you believe?
Were ancient Egyptians black or white? What do you believe? In class we had a professor from Egypt speak who said that they were black african. What I want to know is, is why everytime you turn on the television do you see white actors portraying Egytians? lol I think its hilarious. It's like...

Answer 3

Everyone with an IQ above room temp knows that ancient Egyptian people were Irish with white skin and red hair.

Answer 4

The word "race" appeared around 50-75 years ago. We referred to people as black, white, yellow, red. I do not know who came up with the idea of the word "race." But 'race' is a scientific term for when animals are closely related to other animals, sort-of a sub-species of a specific animal. "Race' has absolutely NOTHING to do with people and the color of their skin. The closest word we have that is correct is "ethics" A good example is the Civil War. There were over 100 different flags in the Civil War. One Flag; the one we see all the time, was shown in a black and white movie, with no sound. Suddenly that one flag; became THE flag, of the Civil War. That flag was on a Confederate war ship, that was sunk after 2 days of battle. It was never used again in the Civil War. But in tv and movies, and on vehicles, it is every where!

Answer 5

Both ancient and modern Egypt are multiracial and multiethnic. Nubia and the ancient Badarian culture of Upper Egypt had strong links to black people of Africa

Answer 6

Of course they were black ! They were Africans . And they gave the world civilization .

Answer 7

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

Answer 8

Jet black hair. I have actually dark brown hair and I consider dark hair looks better. I don't really like blonde hair.

Answer 9

First of all there were two egypts initially. Upper and Lower. Semitic/middle eastern influences were stronger on lower egypt and african influences stronger on upper egypt. But the egyptian people were brown. In there own art they always depict there Kushite and Beja neighbors darker and with african hair styles that survived to the modern era. The egyptian clear saw themselves as a distinct people unlike any of their neighbors even though Egypt acquired cultural practices that were or would become associated with regions of africa and the middle east. But utimately they were north africans like the modern day peoples of libya, algeria, tunisia and morocco.

Answer 10

Well the pharoah who built the pyramids was black and the sphinx was constructed during black egypt days which is what the hullabaloo is really all about anyway Egypt became whitish late compared to ancient Egypt or rather ancient ancient Egypt

Answer 11

The American blacks are the Egyptians know thyself.