Doug M Wrote:
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> 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,


That's one reason I was curious about the "racial" makeup of Egypt by period. When I hear people say that the Egyptians were Black or was a melting-pot I think they need to specify what period of Egyptian history they're referring to. I know that saying Egypt was a melting-pot is basically accurate considering Egypt's 2,000 year span and known migrations during that 2,000 years,but I also would think that "racially" the mixture would have varied depending on the period. I wouldn't be suprised if the predynastic population was largely made up of indigenous Africans with some non-indigenous Africans also in it's population at that time because I haven't seen where outside migrations was that heavy during the predynastic era.




Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/13/2007 12:03PM by Motion.