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TopicWere the Ancient Egyptians Black?
RickyTheBAWSE
10/06/17 9:46:08 AM
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Asherlee10 posted...
Ammonitida posted...
DreadedWave posted...
Asherlee10 posted...
It looks like officially, no one knows the extent of what races were dominant (see the wiki article), but it looks like for the most part they were closest to Israelis and Jordanites.

https://www.nature.com/news/mummy-dna-unravels-ancient-egyptians-ancestry-1.22069

The study, published on 30 May in Nature Communications1, includes data from 90 mummies buried between 1380 bc, during Egypts New Kingdom, and ad 425, in the Roman era. The findings show that the mummies closest kin were ancient farmers from a region that includes present-day Israel and Jordan. Modern Egyptians, by contrast, have inherited more of their DNA from central Africans.

Archaeological discoveries and historical documents suggest close ties between Egypt and the Middle East,

Ash coming in here with her facts.


Ramsese III was definitely black based on his Y-DNA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_III

Usimare Ramesses III (also written Ramses and Rameses) was the second Pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty and is considered to be the last monarch of the New Kingdom to wield any substantial authority over Egypt. His long reign saw the decline of Egyptian political and economic power, linked to a series of invasions and internal economic problems.


There is no doubt that some Ancient Egyptians were black. It would very weird if there were not some. I think the consensus is, most were not, though.


"most" still depends on what period. because kingdoms were literally destroyed.
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