What ethnicity were ancient egyptians?

Question

From the beginning? Arabic? African? I know they weren't Greek from the beginning.

Answer 1

Atlantean

Answer 2

The first Egyptians were a separate group - these are the people who invented math and built the pyramids. After Alexander the Great captured Egypt Greeks created a colony and ruled from Alexandria (Graeco-Roman Egypt). Cleopatra was the last of Greek ruler, after that it was the Romans. The ethnic Egyptians didn't interact much with the Greeks and Romans and since the 1950s rule themselves again. One hopes they will be able to invent something cool like math again.

Answer 3

The Egyptians additionally mentioned that they began as a colony of Nubia and that the Ethiopians civilization exchange into some distance older than their very own. it is likewise written in Hebrew texts that no longer genuinely anybody considered black are descended from Ham. Shem is likewise a black father of countries. they're are many black semitic people like the Hebrews working example Lamentations 5:10 (total financial ruin) Our dermis exchange into black like an oven because of the undesirable famine. yet as reported above, people will say, all of us understand the colour of their dermis greater desirable than they do. The Hebrews have been consistently unsuitable for Africans (Egyptians) which does no longer be accessible for a Caucasoid individual. Babylon exchange into based and equipped by potential of the Ethiopians, which could be why Herodotus erroneously reported that, anybody knows Abraham exchange into an Ethiopian (paraphrased). in certainty, Ghana and Mali have been Hebrew Kingdoms in Africa that switched over to Islam for commerce reward. later on, whilst it exchange into got here across that those Hebrews have been nonetheless practising "Judaism," friendships went bitter, permit's say.

Answer 4

Ancient Egyptians were Egyptians! Certainly you can call them african, becouse they lived in the north of Africa continent.
Egiptian civilisation arised much more earlier then antique (greece) and arabic.

Answer 5

Well Egypt is in North Africa as another answerer said and it is possible that they were black. However it because of the region it is also highly likely they were what we call Mediterranean. This means they would have dark hair, dark olive toned skin but not black more like a Isreali or Saudi Arabian today. Of course this would the norm but not exculsivlely.

Answer 6

Duh...Egyptians are Egyptian...which are related to the North Africans, not the Arabs.

Answer 7

Ethnically, they were NOT Arabs.

I forgot the name assigned to thier original race.

Answer 8

This is a tricky one. They were North African. Whether, or to what extent, they were Black is hotly disputed.

Answer 9

Hamitic. They were not black like a lot of black racists want people to believe. Basicly they look like what Egyptians look like today

Answer 10

White, they found mummy's with red and blonde hair
and there are paintings with people with red or blonde hair.