Don, since you are interested in this and feel it is so important, why not provide the said evidence of these blonde, pale skinned mummies? Most mummies from Egypt have blondish hair due to embalming fluids. And those who suggest that people who died in their 50s or older had reddish and blonde hair as opposed to white hair are not making any sense. Mummies do not show their skin color as they did during life as a European, Asian and African corpse would likely all look the same if embalmed and left in the deserts of Egypt from thousands of years ago.

First and foremost the Egyptians were Africans from in Africa. Of course over time other peoples became involved with ancient Egypt, but dynastic Egypt was overwhelmingly populated throughout its history up until the late period by indigenous African people, most of whom would have been considered black by any definition of the word. There is no need to guess on this and there is no mystery on this either. Sure, there were lighter complexioned people that were there in various times and various positions, but that does not change the fact that the Egyptians were overwhelmingly indigenous African people from the Nile and that such people did not have light skin on average. This fact of the Egyptian culture being indigenous to Africa has been confirmed over and over by recent scientific research. Therefore, why is it so hard to accept the obvious?

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With communications with the peoples of the Nile Valley already established, McDonald theorizes, the Bashendi would have migrated there, bringing with them their domesticated cattle and distinctive technologies and artifacts.

Most archeologists now agree that the Pharaonic civilization, which began some 1500 years after the Bashendi migrations, is entirely indigenous.

The same climate change also dramatically altered the flow and regular flooding of the Nile itself, changing and most likely stressing the relatively comfortable lives of the Nile-side dwellers described by Hoffman’s Hieronkopolis excavations. Traditional hunting and fishing would no longer support them—particularly with the added stress of the influx of new Bashendi peoples from the west. Together with other cultures from the east of the river, an unprecedented pooling and melding of cultures began to take place that would give rise to the Predynastic cultures.

From: [www.saudiaramcoworld.com]

Again, modern research is confirming what many have been saying all along, that Egypt was an indigenous African culture along the Nile born from other African peoples along the Nile and in the Sahara, mostly to the SOUTH of Egypt. Therefore, anyone who cannot see that the people of this time would have been primarily black Africans are engaging in fantasy history and anthropology.

A large part of this "mystery" stems from the fact that Eurocentric historians and anthropologists for the last few hundred years have tried to convince everyone of the "inferiority" of black Africans. These ethnocentrists constantly portrayed Africa and black African people as having no contribution to world history and the development of civilization. Therefore, in that context, Egypt being in Africa presents a quandary, namely how can Egypt be in Africa if Africa is the home of black people and black people had no contribution to the development of civilization? The answer is obvious: deny the blackness of ancient Egypt and take Egypt out of Africa. Now, years later the truth is coming out that Egypt is but the last of a long line of human developments that took place in Africa for thousands of years prior to dynastic Egypt. Humans first arose in Africa and developed the techniques to survive around the world in Africa prior to anywhere else. Therefore of course civilization first would have developed in Africa among black Africans as black Africans have been around on earth longer than any other human beings or homo sapiens. There is no race of humans that separates blacks from whites. Black Africans have the same fundamental biological make up as white Eurasians. Their brains function just as well as any other human on earth. The key is that under the right conditions and given the right circumstances, they can grow and flower and produce marvelous things. Egypt is testament to this ability as well as an acknowledgment by Africans themselves of the things needed for a group to "flower" and grow given the right circumstances. Of course, since Eurocentrism still exists, meaning trying to put Europe at the center of all human development and history (even though Europe was among the last places populated by homo sapien sapiens on earth), it still tries to maintain Europe as somehow the center of all human development that all other areas must be measured against.



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 08/13/2007 06:45AM by Doug M.