Doug M Wrote:
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> When were there ever any sub-saharan Africans in
> Egypt? Please show me any evidence of said
> persons being from below the Sahara at any time in
> Egypt's history.
Okay, if you prefer the phrase 'black african' I'll use that
instead.
> And I guess it is a problem for an African Queen
> to be black?
Actually no. It is highly probable that a number of Egytian queens
were of Nubian extraction - at least one Prince's wife in was in the
4th dynasty. It's just that Tiye on the parental evidence was not one
of them. And apparently Nefertiti wasn't either. Both ladies were
Egyptians and Nefertiti seems to have been a fairly light skinned
example.
> All Egyptians were not black. All Egyptians are
> not black.
Which is *ALL* I have been trying to say!
That is not the point. The point is
> that the ancient Egyptians derived from ancient
> Africans in the Sahara and to the South of Egypt
> and it is from the south that the traditions that
> led to ancient dynastic Egypt originated.
> Therefore, to suggest that this represented some
> non black impetus or input into the Nile Valley or
> that the cultural and social framework was
> imported from outside Africa and not from among
> populations of black Africans is totally
> incorrect.
Happily that is not what I meant to say at all. Though there was some
immigration and presumably influence from the Middle East and contact and
trade with Crete.