There is a lot of public controversy over which race the ancient Egyptians belonged to.
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There is a lot of public controversy over which race the ancient Egyptians belonged to.
Yes, some of them were actual Ancient Black Egyptians who ruled in North Africa. Queen Tiye was a Nubian. A Black woman. So was General Horemheb who led the army in the 18th dynasty for both Akhennaten and his son Tutankamun.
Horemheb was a Black man. He had a Black mother and father. So did Queen Tiye. How did these people not only make their way into Egypt and wielded such power if no Egyptians were Black? Did they drop from Planet Negro and land in the middle of the Nile like baby Kal-El in Superman? Egypt is in Africa, the birthplace of Black people. Our ancestral grounds. Just as there are dark Dominicans, Arabs, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, etc. due to the intermixing of Blacks and the Spanish and Arabic culture, Egypt is no different. Dark skin is such a repellant, you will find a caste system in nearly every culture. Why is this so difficult to fathom?
This is really tricky because some Egyptians have really light skin, some have really dark skin, and a lot are in between. Egypt is right where Africa, The Middle East, and Europe meet. Over the last few thousand years, it was a huge hub of trade. People came from Greece, Rome, India, Persia, Mesopotamia, Nubia, and later from Sudan, the Ottaman Empire, and the Latins.
People in southern Egypt tend to descend from Nubians and have darker skin, people on the Sinai Peninsula tend to be descended from Bedouins and have dark, but not quite as dark skin. People near Cairo tend to descend from Arabs and have brownish skin. People in Alexandria tend to have some Greek in their ancestry and have more olive skin. Egyptian people come in a rainbow of different colors.