Were the ancient Egyptians white?
Firstly I’d like to mention I am an egyptolgist whom base of research is on primary sources. Conclusions are made with the best of arguments and the least amount of bias. Through my research, like every egyptologists before me, I have found the egyptians to be native africans, or “black” people.
Must know fact: Migration happened, was documented and should be taught alongside the ottoman empires expansion from arabia into africa. It’ll save us egyptologists plenty of time. Arabs today are open in their non-native identity however to boost touring egypt began claiming they were “native” egyptians which the new generation buys (think how european migrants were taught they “own” america and canada and natives dont). In every “north-african” nation they’re plenty of natives around. Keep reading and you’ll learn something new.
But first, where are these mystical egyptians we’ve fantasized about?…In Egypt
Thanks to great documentation from the Ottoman Empire we are aware of an arab migration to north africa however millions of native north africans exist today, with plenty in Egypt. There is preference however to paint egypt as an arab nation since arabs are the group in power and dominate the major cities. It’s just how the americas is seen today as mainly “white” or “black” instead native “mongoloid” (lack of a better word). You’d hardly find a native american in new york right?
BERBER AND THEIR HISTORY
Today you can find native egyptians everywhere however they are slowly being painted as “imported african slaves” or african migrants and so are native berber tribes. Ironically, many european slaves were spread across north africa, arabia and parts of asia. Think of the kablye berbers: one tribe with two groups today. One being the native populous who are and have historically been described as “light brown to dark brown/black skin” africans (meaning native. Can vary from elongated african (beja) to tropical (mali)) with “varying degrees of curly black hair”. The second, and more famous group, are the descendants of vandals.
Furthermore the name of the nomadic natives, berber, is an archaic term of a large familial group/nation of people whom are closely related (think sibling ethnicities) whose name come from several of their clans whose names were close to the word berbera or berberois (greek).
One of the world’s ancient port cities, berbera of somalia, still carries the name today as native africans in the Sahara were called this. The theory of berber deriving from barbarian is a fallacy. The theoretical “original” berbers are found within groups whom did not intermarry foreigners/euro slaves such as the tauregs, zanata, Tebu etc. One theory lies “Berber” culture/language spread from these groups to other saharan groups with a migration out of the horn 2000yrs ago. Still making this language one of the youngest in Africa. So young its speakers must be from sister ethnicities. Think somali and oromo. To north-east african ethnicity, whom appear as the same ethnicity (on a large scale). How long ago did they split from their common origin to form their respective ethnicities and language? 5000yr+!
If it takes 5000yrs for people to differentiate to a sister ethnicity and speak different langauges BUT they remain closely related genetically and physically look the same, it's impossible to speak an even younger langauge and be of another RACE. One does not belong.
Taureg berber specifically are considered the natives of algeria and libya. Although residing in the in many countries, tauregs on average look identical to saharan africans till this day sharing linguistic, cultural and biological relations.
But tauregs don’t all look alike. Many subclans are present. Some have intermarried with the turks/euro slaves, etc. Not every ethnic group stays homogenous. Even parts of china people are wedding african migrants. However, china is still chinese. There’s no question whom the egyptians were in the field of egyptology however politics plays a heavy role. Due to key features such as skull measurements, hair type, skeletal frame and such, egyptians continuously match to a general group known as “elongated africans” who are indigenous *today* to the sahara into the sahel belt (from east to west) and the horn of africa.
SKULLS AND WEST EURASIAN RACISM
With skulls, it isn’t the skull shape that matters but the details which gives identity to the skeleton. Each ethnic group in a region carry multiple variations in skull points—forehead curvature, jaw angle, cheekbone protrusion, etc— and skeletal frame—femur length, bone density, etc—that point to specific group.
Colonial created categorization allowed northern europeans to claim everything they shared with other groups as their own with the most extreme belonging to the latter. Terms like “mongoloid” (a people), “caucasoid” (a region) and “negroid” (a colour) were created to suit their psuedo-science of race at the time. although they hardly work.
These groups should be mega categories and not “racial” ones. They give the general idea of a persons face NOT their race/ethnicity/ancestry. Markers are key points, not general shapes. The caucas mountains are nowhere related to a dravidians skull nor is a mongolian to a khoisan.
Khoisan woman who, with these three skulls becomes a “mongoloid”. Maybe in 1000yrs, this racist biased approach will lead to a theory claiming a great asian people living in southern africa, hence the “yellow” skin too?
The whoke skulls aren’t race related. It's the details that are.
That is why stating “egyptians skulls are caucasoid, hence they’re arab/white” is laughable to specialized anthropologist. Human diversity has no boundaries ESPECIALLY with ancient races as many have vanished, notablly in the middle-east,europe and east asia. What is “caucasian” aka west eurasian are large, broad nose bridges, protruding chins, low eyebrow and jutting brow bones, flat facism (facia profike is undefned besides nose), shorter limb ratios and pale skin. That’s about it. Every other feature is shared by whites and non-whites globally. What you tend to find are features race based scientist find attractive they try to label as white.
Must know fact: Migration happened, was documented and should be taught alongside the ottoman empires expansion from arabia into africa. It’ll save us egyptologists plenty of time. Arabs today are open in their non-native identity however to boost touring egypt began claiming they were “native” egyptians which the new generation buys (think how european migrants were taught they “own” america and canada and natives dont). In every “north-african” nation they’re plenty of natives around. Keep reading and you’ll learn something new.
But first, where are these mystical egyptians we’ve fantasized about?…In Egypt
Thanks to great documentation from the Ottoman Empire we are aware of an arab migration to north africa however millions of native north africans exist today, with plenty in Egypt. There is preference however to paint egypt as an arab nation since arabs are the group in power and dominate the major cities. It’s just how the americas is seen today as mainly “white” or “black” instead native “mongoloid” (lack of a better word). You’d hardly find a native american in new york right?
BERBER AND THEIR HISTORY
Today you can find native egyptians everywhere however they are slowly being painted as “imported african slaves” or african migrants and so are native berber tribes. Ironically, many european slaves were spread across north africa, arabia and parts of asia. Think of the kablye berbers: one tribe with two groups today. One being the native populous who are and have historically been described as “light brown to dark brown/black skin” africans (meaning native. Can vary from elongated african (beja) to tropical (mali)) with “varying degrees of curly black hair”. The second, and more famous group, are the descendants of vandals.
Furthermore the name of the nomadic natives, berber, is an archaic term of a large familial group/nation of people whom are closely related (think sibling ethnicities) whose name come from several of their clans whose names were close to the word berbera or berberois (greek).
One of the world’s ancient port cities, berbera of somalia, still carries the name today as native africans in the Sahara were called this. The theory of berber deriving from barbarian is a fallacy. The theoretical “original” berbers are found within groups whom did not intermarry foreigners/euro slaves such as the tauregs, zanata, Tebu etc. One theory lies “Berber” culture/language spread from these groups to other saharan groups with a migration out of the horn 2000yrs ago. Still making this language one of the youngest in Africa. So young its speakers must be from sister ethnicities. Think somali and oromo. To north-east african ethnicity, whom appear as the same ethnicity (on a large scale). How long ago did they split from their common origin to form their respective ethnicities and language? 5000yr+!
If it takes 5000yrs for people to differentiate to a sister ethnicity and speak different langauges BUT they remain closely related genetically and physically look the same, it's impossible to speak an even younger langauge and be of another RACE. One does not belong.
Taureg berber specifically are considered the natives of algeria and libya. Although residing in the in many countries, tauregs on average look identical to saharan africans till this day sharing linguistic, cultural and biological relations.
But tauregs don’t all look alike. Many subclans are present. Some have intermarried with the turks/euro slaves, etc. Not every ethnic group stays homogenous. Even parts of china people are wedding african migrants. However, china is still chinese. There’s no question whom the egyptians were in the field of egyptology however politics plays a heavy role. Due to key features such as skull measurements, hair type, skeletal frame and such, egyptians continuously match to a general group known as “elongated africans” who are indigenous *today* to the sahara into the sahel belt (from east to west) and the horn of africa.
SKULLS AND WEST EURASIAN RACISM
With skulls, it isn’t the skull shape that matters but the details which gives identity to the skeleton. Each ethnic group in a region carry multiple variations in skull points—forehead curvature, jaw angle, cheekbone protrusion, etc— and skeletal frame—femur length, bone density, etc—that point to specific group.
Colonial created categorization allowed northern europeans to claim everything they shared with other groups as their own with the most extreme belonging to the latter. Terms like “mongoloid” (a people), “caucasoid” (a region) and “negroid” (a colour) were created to suit their psuedo-science of race at the time. although they hardly work.
These groups should be mega categories and not “racial” ones. They give the general idea of a persons face NOT their race/ethnicity/ancestry. Markers are key points, not general shapes. The caucas mountains are nowhere related to a dravidians skull nor is a mongolian to a khoisan.
That is why stating “egyptians skulls are caucasoid, hence they’re arab/white” is laughable to specialized anthropologist. Human diversity has no boundaries ESPECIALLY with ancient races as many have vanished, notablly in the middle-east,europe and east asia. What is “caucasian” aka west eurasian are large, broad nose bridges, protruding chins, low eyebrow and jutting brow bones, flat facism (facia profike is undefned besides nose), shorter limb ratios and pale skin. That’s about it. Every other feature is shared by whites and non-whites globally. What you tend to find are features race based scientist find attractive they try to label as white.
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