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Originally posted by konaa
But honey, Ancient Egypt is black culture.
Please don't tell me you think Nefertiti and Cleopatra were white girls.  |
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Originally posted by GrandMomCookies
No she was black ! Please with this bull
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Wrong 
First of all, the race of ancient Egyptians is uncertain and they probably were semites or hamites, as the ongoing research of DNA from many mummies indicate. The DNA of ancient Egyptians is very similar to todays Egyptians, who are mostly caucasian (semites) and show that their descendants still live there.
But its not that easy.
The most widely accepted theory today is that ancient population of Lower Egypt (north Egypt) was probably caucasian (semitic), while the ancient population of Upper Egypt (south Egypt) could have been partly negroid. Nubian people living in Upper (south) Egypt were depicted as having darker skin color, but skin color is not a good indicator, because also semitic and hamitic people have skin tone varying from very light to very dark (descendants of Nubians live in southern Egypt and Sudan, and majority of both populations are caucasian with darker skin tone). But the DNA analysis also show that ancient Egyptians had also genes typical for the whole African Horn including Ethiopia and Somalia. Most modern Ethiopians and Somalis are black, but even these people bear old caucasian genes/haplotypes, and form a very unique group of negroid people with some distinctive caucasoid features.
(btw, negroid is an antropologic term for black people, not an insult).
Nefertiti was depicted wearing nubian wigs, but it was quite fashionable among all noble Egyptians of that period, and her facial features are caucasian, but considering how unique the East Africans of African Horn are, it doesnt necessarily mean that she was white.
Cleopatra VII., just like the whole Ptolemaic dynasty, was certainly of Macedonian Greek origin. The Ptolemais practiced incestuous dynastic marriages for centuries rather than to get involved with Egyptian noble women. No Ptolemaic king had an Egyptian woman as his first wife and mother of his successors. Identity of Cleopatras mother is uncertain, but most probably it was Cleopatra Tryphaena, also a greek/ptolemaic noble woman and first wife of her father. The possibility of it being an Egyptian woman is small (but considering that Cleopatra was the first Ptolemaic ruler who know how to speak ancient Egyptian language, among 8 other languages she was fluent in give us some doubt). But even if her mother was Egyptian, it doesnt mean she was black.
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