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Originally posted by ZikhaN
how do you know this ?
the ancient egyptian drawings with arabs in them is a depiction of a meeting between arabs and egyptians. let me tro to find it if i can.
i mean no doubt there were different races in ancient egypt, in a small amount, but what were the ACTUAL egyptians like. what race where the majority of the pharaohs for example? (i know there were some nubian pharaohs, but what race were the non-nubians?)
Originally posted by ZikhaN
reply to post by Byrd
but but ... the ancient egyptians own depictions of themselves look nothing like the arab majority that live in Egypt nowadays.
Personally I think the Ancient Egyptian statues/drawings look SORTA like a mix of black and white.
Alicia Keys for example, she looks like what I imagine an Ancient Egyptian female looking like.
Originally posted by IEtherianSoul9
reply to post by artistpoet
Alicia Keys (the woman in the picture) has an Italian mother and an African American father.edit on 1/15/2012 by IEtherianSoul9 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by IEtherianSoul9
reply to post by artistpoet
Alicia Keys (the woman in the picture) has an Italian mother and an African American father.edit on 1/15/2012 by IEtherianSoul9 because: (no reason given)
reply to post by ZikhaN
...Based on the physical characters of the skull, I concluded that this was the skull of a male older than 15 but less than 21, and likely in the 18-20 year range and of African ancestry, possibly north african. The possibly north african came mostly from the shape of the face including the narrow nose opening, that is not entirely consistent with an 'African' designation. A narrow nose is more typical of more northerly located populations because nose breadth is thought to be at least in part related to the climate in which ancestral populations lived. A narrow and tall nose is seen most frequently in Europeans. Tut's head was a bit of a conundrum, but, as you note, there is a huge range of variation in modern humans from any area, so for me the skull overall, including aspects of the face, spoke fairly strongly of his African origins - the nose was a bit unusual.As you also note, skin color today in North Africa can range from much lighter than what they chose to much darker. And we don't know how well today's range matches that of the past, although I suspect there was also a range of variation in the past, as is normal for any biological population. Michael's reconstruction did not include an inference of skin color (or eye color), the French team's did and their inference was, I understand, based on a 'average' skin tone for Egypt today. I don't know the specifics of how they did that. I think, however, it would have been as accurate to have had the same facial reconstruction with either a lighter tone or a darker tone to the skin. That said, skin and eye color will always be an inference...That said, skin and eye color will always be an inference.