For decades Afrocentric scholars had claimed that the ancient Egyptians were a black (Negroid) race. In 2017 DNA testing provided scientific proof that ancient Egypt was not a black nation. They were closely related to the other people of the Middle East and more closely related the people of Eastern Europe than Sub-Saharan Africa. This is not intended to be any kind of insult to black people but just an acknowledgement of the truth. I don’t know if this has been posted here before since these DNA results are a year old, but if it has it is worth posting again.
Do you remember a few go when a movie about Moses and the exodus showed the ancient Egyptians as Caucasians? The producers were criticized by American blacks for their depiction of the ancient Egyptians. But the movie makers were right the ancient Egyptians were not a black people but a Caucasian people not much different than the people who live there today. The Afrocentrics are right about one thing; people form east did invade the Nile valley and pushed out the indigenous Negroid people. But that happened a long time before the rise of the accident Egyptian civilization.
Genetic Literacy Project2017/06/29/mummy-dna-ancient.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/22/health/ancient-egypt-mummy-dna
https://www.businessinsider.com/r-whos-your-mummy-genetic-secrets
Were the ancient Egyptians black or white? Scientists now know
“The problem, it was thought, is that mummy DNA couldn’t be sequenced. But a group of international researchers, using unique methods, have overcome the barriers to do just that. They found that the ancient Egyptians were most closely related to the peoples of the Near East, particularly from the Levant. This is the Eastern Mediterranean which today includes the countries of Turkey, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. The mummies used were from the New Kingdom and a later period, (a period later than the Middle Kingdom) when Egypt was under Roman rule”
Do you remember a few go when a movie about Moses and the exodus showed the ancient Egyptians as Caucasians? The producers were criticized by American blacks for their depiction of the ancient Egyptians. But the movie makers were right the ancient Egyptians were not a black people but a Caucasian people not much different than the people who live there today. The Afrocentrics are right about one thing; people form east did invade the Nile valley and pushed out the indigenous Negroid people. But that happened a long time before the rise of the accident Egyptian civilization.
Genetic Literacy Project2017/06/29/mummy-dna-ancient.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/22/health/ancient-egypt-mummy-dna
https://www.businessinsider.com/r-whos-your-mummy-genetic-secrets
Were the ancient Egyptians black or white? Scientists now know
“The problem, it was thought, is that mummy DNA couldn’t be sequenced. But a group of international researchers, using unique methods, have overcome the barriers to do just that. They found that the ancient Egyptians were most closely related to the peoples of the Near East, particularly from the Levant. This is the Eastern Mediterranean which today includes the countries of Turkey, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. The mummies used were from the New Kingdom and a later period, (a period later than the Middle Kingdom) when Egypt was under Roman rule”
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