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Originally posted by Samuel
But Cleopatra was white.
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People have been debating this for years actually
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The race and skin color of Cleopatra, the last pharaoh following the Greek invasion of Egypt in 300 BCE, has also caused frequent debate, as described in an article from The Baltimore Sun.[47] There is also an article entitled: Was Cleopatra Black? from Ebony magazine,[48] and an article about Afrocentrism from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that mentions the question, too.[49] Scholars[who?] generally suggest a Caucasian skin color for Cleopatra, based on the following facts: her Greek Macedonian family had intermingled with the Persian aristocracy of the time; her mother's identity is uncertain,[50] and that of her paternal grandmother is not known for certain.[51]
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In 2009, a BBC documentary speculated that Arsinoe IV, the half-sister of Cleopatra VII, may have been part African and then further speculated that Cleopatra’s mother, thus Cleopatra herself, might also have been part African. This was based largely on the claims of Hilke Thür of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, who in the 1990s had examined a headless skeleton of a female child in a 20 BC tomb in Ephesus (modern Turkey), together with the old notes and photographs of the now-missing skull.[53][54] Arsinoe IV and Cleopatra VII, shared the same father (Ptolemy XII Auletes) but had different mothers.[55]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient...#Cleopatra_VII
& whether Cleopatra was Black, White or Beige, Chola or Orient-made,
I'm certain she didn't eat twinkie pyramids or wear tacky, jewel encrusted grills to look ~kewl and gangsta~
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