theses people were african black, get a clue too for whites, look at there features on the reliefs theses are africans features why make them white with braided hair. this is in african. please answer me back why do americans make ancient people in africa look like them, white
Why do travel and discover channel lies about the race of ancient egypt whites with braids in hair ? There was a great range of physical appearances in ancient Egypt, much like there is in modern Egypt as the general physical characteristics have not changed all that greatly - there have been new population groups introduced, but their influence has been fairly small and gradual and new population groups have been moving through Egypt since humans first arrived there.
The ancient Egyptians were African, as Egypt is in Africa. "African" is frequently conflated with "black" especially in the US and Europe, despite the vast range of physical appearance, including skin tones and facial features among various indigenous African groups. The ancient Egyptians had a variety of skin tones, roughly similar to those seen in Egypt today - that is, ranging from relatively light skinned/tan to very dark skinned, with hair that is straight, curly or very curly, noses that range in shape and eyes that are brown, blue, grey, or green. This is a standard phenotype for most North Africans.
It might be worth noting that many modern Egytians are offended if called "black" - yet another complicated aspect of racial and ethnic categories and the way they shift meanings from context to context.
There was population movement into Egypt despite it's relative isolation from both futher south in Africa and from western Asia that contributed in a slight way to the external physical characteristics of the general population.
Ancient Egyptian art had certain conventions for depicting Egyptians as well as other population groups. Egyptian males are typically shown as red or reddish brown, women in a yellowish shade, Nubians as black, and Asiatics as yellow. This may not have always reflected the reality of individual appearance as most of these depictions were not intended as portraits.
It's important to realize that most scholars in history and anthropology no longer consider race to be a reality in a genetic sense. Rather, we consider race to be a cultural construction and the definintions of race vary from culture to culture and context to context.
In the various reenactments of historic events in ancient Egypt that are shown in recent documentaries the majority of the actors are Egyptian. I've seen some these being filmed while I was in the field - Egyptian actors are less expensive to hire and filming costs are cut down by filming on-site in Egypt.
The majority of Egyptologists, anthropologists and historians will tell you that despite the Arab Conquest, modern Egyptians don't look all that different from ancient Egyptians, especially outside Cairo. It's important to note that most of the Arabs and other Muslims who migrated into Egypt following the conquest tended (with exceptions, of course) to reside primarily around Cairo and to remain fairly exclusive in their marriage habits.
The confusion comes in because of the history of the discipline of Egyptology and history, the history of European colonialism, and the history of the rise of Afrocentrism.
In the early days of Egyptology western thought was that white Europeans were superior to all other "races" and therefore a civilization like Egypt could not have arisen out of a black African "race." This lead to theories such as the "Dynastic Race" - an idea that the Egyptian state arose after the invasion of a separate race of people from Western Asia who subjugated the native Egyptians and became the ruling class, though they eventually intermarried with the "natives". This also nicely explained the features of Egyptians as shown in various ancient depictions which weren't stereotypically "black" but weren't stereotypically "white European" either.
This theory is no longer popularly accepted - nor should it be.
In reaction to this and with the rise of the black pride movement, the civil rights movement and other social/political movements, certain members of the black community, especially in the US, have argued that the Egyptians were "black" which they usually define, at least in the US as looking like the majority of black Americans. In some of its most extreme forms, this movement has suggested that Europeans deliberately changed or defaced monuments to hide the "African" features of ancient Egyptians (which is totally ridiculous) and they tend to point to evidence of Egyptian "blackness" that is not really valid within the broader scholarly understanding of ancient Egypt.
The big problem with this movement and the claiming of Egypt by black pride movements is that it ignores the points of origin of most African Americans - slaves were derived primarily from sub-Saharan Africa, some distance from Egypt and in areas the had little or no contact with ancient Egypt. It also tends to treat Africa as though it is one huge cultural unit, disregarding the vast amount of diversity and individuality of various African cultures. It also tends to shortchange and direct attention away from other amazing African cultures, such as the cultural group associated with the amazing constructions at Great Zimbabwe.
Overall, the primarly problem with the Afrocentrism movement is that it tends not to meet the rigorous requirements of modern scholastic practice and that those who argue against their theories are accused of being racist, white supremacists, or of being part of a vast conspiracy to claim Egypt as a white culture. In other words, the proponents of Afrocentrism rely on ad hominem personal attacks on those they disagree with, rather than addressing their arguments.
As a scholar, I don't think the Egyptians were white, but I don't think that they were "black" in the common usage either - I think that they were Egyptian. I think, based on evidence from their own texts, artistic representations, etc., that they defined themselves as "Egyptian" in opposition to other groups. I don't think that you can apply modern categories with their own baggage to the past and I don't think that it serves any worthwhile purpose to "claim" an ancient cultural group as one's own without a wealth of evidence. I study ancient Egypt because I find it interesting, not because I feel that I need to support a modern social-political ideology and to be frank, at times I get a little tired of the ongoing arguing because I think that it distracts from the really interesting parts of Egyptian culture and because I don't think it should matter what box on a census form an ancient Egyptian would check. I say again, they were Egyptian - and that's all that should matter.
Why do travel and discover channel lies about the race of ancient egypt whites with braids in hair ? They were actually semites.
Why do travel and discover channel lies about the race of ancient egypt whites with braids in hair ? People in Egypt now is a mix of many cultures, none of them was black
1- ancient Egyptians were Semitic, direct descendants of Sam, like all the whites.
2- Greek occupation (whites)
3- Roman Occupation (whites)
4- Arab ruling (middle eastern, not black)
5- Othmanic occupation (Turks are not other than whites)
6- French and then English occupation (whites)
that ended in 1954
and believe it or not 35% of Egyptians are whites, 55% middle eastern and the rest are African not blacks but brownish.
Why do travel and discover channel lies about the race of ancient egypt whites with braids in hair ? yea,that's right they r not white but not black they have olive skin black hair %26amp;eyes their feature was not like black it tend to be like europien more .so they r not white or black
Why do travel and discover channel lies about the race of ancient egypt whites with braids in hair ? Egyptians are NOT Semitic, they are Hamitic in majority. This is a great misconception.
The Egyptians are racially classified as Caucassians even those dark skinned among them.
North Africans and since ancient times have "whitish" complexion, so you cannot say in majority Egyptians were black in color. Their complexion is typical for Mediterranean people.
So Travel and Discover Channel did not lie unless they showed blondes.
