Don Barone Wrote:
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> Hi Motion.
>
> Discussing race in regards to Ancient Egyptians is
> as far as I know Taboo !
Correction: questioning Afrocentric views is the taboo!
> Seems that to even think that the early dynasties
> or any dynasties for that matter might have been
> Black causes no end of controversey and is deemed
> not important. Why I have no idea, and Queen Tiye
> being Black is also a no go for disucssion.
There is evidence of persons of sub-Saharan African extraction in the
highest social ranks as far back as the 4th Dynasty, however ancient and
modern Egyptians alike consider themselves distinct from their southern
neighbors culturally as they are physically.
Queen Tiye is *CONSTANTLY* described and depicted as 'black', this dispite
the fact that we possess the mummies of both her parents *neither* of whom is
'black'. Tiye must have been adopted?? And of course Nefertiti is consistently
depicted as a nice, toasty brown dispite the pinky-beige complexion of her best
known likeness.
Frankly Don suggesting the AEs *weren't* 'black' is the no go area!