Roxana, black Africans in the time period of 5,000 years ago, were the majority in the sahara and the Nile Valley and all across Northern Africa. Therefore, to say that in order for black Africans to be present in the Egypt they needed to come from somewhere else, as if there aren't black people in Egypt to this day, from the delta to Aswan, is purely nonsense. There are and have always have been black Africans in Egypt and they are indigenous to Egypt. That is my point. Therefore Nubian or Sub Saharan is irrelevant. Tiye was an indigenous Egyptian. Most other wives of Egyptians seen in the tombs were indigenous Egyptians and many of them were painted in natural brown tones. Yes it is true that at various times some Queens were painted jet black, because of Southern ancestry, but the Egyptians themselves originated from the South along with the Saharans, so this does not signify a drastic physical separation between ancient Egyptians and Southerners. If anything it represents a refreshment of the line from the South, where they first originated. There were differences, but in general there were many features shared in common between ancient Egypt and other Africans across Africa.

Of course influence from outside of Africa took place, but for much of the dynastic period that foreign influence did not dominate or overtake the native African population.



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