Is it settled that they were black?
"Most Ancient Egyptian Funerary Texts such as The Book Of The Dead and Pyramid Texts can also be attributed to the Anu Culture in the Dynastic Period beginning with the Old Kingdom.
According to Historians like Chiekh Anta Diop and Abbe Emile Amelineau, carved Ivory objects such as the Tera Neter Tile found at the Tombs at Abydos, especially the Tomb of Osiris, reveal in their origin that the first settlers of the Pre-Historic or Pre-Dynastic Nile Valley Egypt were the Anu Black Africans.
The claims that Anu Black Africans were the first settlers of the Nile Valley and Egypt is also in agreement with modern Science which claims that Human beings first evolved out of the Mt. Ruwenzori area about 180 000-200 000 years ago."
Hominid remains have been found in East Africa’s Rift Valley Olduvai Gorge Region which suggest the existence of a gradual evolution of Hominids on the African Plains, most notably, Austolopethicus, followed by Homo Erectus about 1.9 million years ago, and then to modern man, Homo Sapien who emerged approximately 40 000 years ago."