Originally posted by FistOfThe North
western white propaganda.egyptian pharoahs were africans from africa born in the african country of eqypt.
"I'm like a street sweeper, green leaf reaper,
like greeks in Egypt learning something deep from they're teaachers."- Nas in "Nas is like"
So were they African? Yeah, technically speaking.
But were they "black"?
Maybe, maybe not.
Originally posted by acomplicatedgir
if the islams know they are so gonna be pissed at this.
No, they´d do what all religous nuts do when blatant facts annihilate their fantasy, put blinkers on , push it too one side as "devils influence" and carry on being dillusioned.
On a side note.
I read a book a while back which mentioned the possibility that an egyptian female healer was on Bardsey Island (Welsh: Ynys Enlli the legendary "Island of 20,000 saints"😉. The book was fiction but based on some facts, can´t remember the name of it damn!
Originally posted by Omega Vision
There's actually a great amount of debate about the actual ethnicity of the Ancient Egyptians. They considered themselves a separate unique race from both the white Greeks to the north and the black Nubians to the south.So were they African? Yeah, technically speaking.
But were they "black"?
Maybe, maybe not.
I don't know maybe this is semantic. You could technically argue alot of African Americans aren't black either. However I was under the impression the kingdom of Kush was a black empire.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Ptolemy I Soter, general of Alexander the Great and founder of the Ptolemaic or 32nd Dynasty of Egypt in the year 305 BC.Egypt, however, has a history going back to 3000BC. I have never heard that Hotepsekhemwy was European. Or Tutankhamun. Or Ramses. Or Akenaten.
Exactly.
My head is hurting trying to figure out why anyone thinks this is surprising or means anything.
Originally posted by Deadline
I don't know maybe this is semantic. You could technically argue alot of African Americans aren't black either. However I was under the impression the kingdom of Kush was a black empire.
IIRC the Egyptian Hieroglyphs show a handful of distinct races, the white Greeks of Mycenae (Crete), the black Nubians of present day Sudan, the white(ish) Libyans to the west, the swarthy Asians of Asia Minor to the East, and the light brown Egyptians.
Originally posted by Omega Vision
There's actually a great amount of debate about the actual ethnicity of the Ancient Egyptians. They considered themselves a separate unique race from both the white Greeks to the north and the black Nubians to the south.So were they African? Yeah, technically speaking.
But were they "black"?
Maybe, maybe not.
They weren't black, there's visual proof in their art and history. Sure the Nubians from the South took up residence for a time, just as the Greeks from the North did, but that didn't change the bulk of their population.
They're closets day Arabs, which iirc, are Caucasoid.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Huh? Tut was from the 18th Dynasty, long before Ptolemy. Him being European would be strange.
Regarding ancient African history in particular, almost no one knows anything and the stuff that is known is often outright ignored. It's no secret that Europeans, Asians, and Africans did all interact way before "written history." There's a lot of things I have read about that period and that land that I never learned in at college or grade school that is never questioned by historians yet they don't teach it either. 💃
I'm skeptical of the findings since it was not mentioned in the documentary but even if it's 100 % true, so what?