October 10, 2007 05:09AM
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So?
We both know that ancient Egypt had some people that were very light as well as some who were very dark. The fact that they used medium brown to portray themselves was a form of artistic generalization and does not make every single Egyptian in ancient times the exact same shade of brown. That is obviously not true. That does not change brown skinned Africans of primarily African descent into pale tan or olive non Africans of European or Levantine descent. And the colors the Egyptian used from tomb to tomb and image to image varies. Some are depicted as very dark and some are depicted as quite light. Therefore it is not true that the Egyptians even portrayed themselves as being all one exact same color of brown that did not include some very light people or very dark people. In fact some tombs have all very dark colored people and some tombs have all very very light colored people. The point being made is that Egypt was primarily made up of Africans, people of primarily African ancestry indigenous to Africa, not foreign ancestry outside of Africa, even though over time such people did become more numerous. Africans with brown skin and primarily African ancestry are still black African. They are not tanned white/olive extremely light brown "others". The majority of them did not come from the North Mediterranean. The Sahara is not Mediterranean and was primarily populated by black Africans 5,000 years ago. So given that we know that most of ancient Egypt was primarily indigenous Africans, then why would they not be Africans and why would they not mostly have been black? I understand how some modern Egyptians with mixed ancestry may feel but what does that have to do with ancient Egypt 4,000 years ago?
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