Were Ancient Egyptians Black

The black egyptian hypothesis states that ancient egypt was a predominantly black civilization as the term is currently understood in modern american ethnic perception.

Were ancient egyptians black. Afrocentrists often claim that the ancient egyptians were all or mostly what we consider black and that modern egyptians are descendants of the arab conquerors but this study suggests that the ancient egyptians had a close genetic affinity with modern peoples of the middle east and that modern egyptians actually have a closer genetic affinity with peoples of sub saharan africa than their ancient ancestors did. For broader coverage of this topic see ancient egyptian race controversy. Grafton elliot smith modified the theory in 1911 stating that the ancient egyptians were a dark haired brown race most closely linked by the closest bonds of racial affinity to the early neolithic populations of the north african littoral and south europe and not negroid. Ghogh with jamarlin martin.

A new dna analysis of ancient egyptians shows they were more turkish and european than african. That s right the ancient egyptians weren t black. Some today believe they were sub saharan africans. Egyptologists writers scholars and others have argued the race of the ancient egyptians since at least the 1970 s.

We can see this. Map of egypt showing the archaeological site of abusir el meleq orange x from which the ancient mummies were taken and the location of the modern egyptian samples used in the study orange circles. Artifacts after artifacts and research from different research depictions in the pyramids all show that the ancient egyptians were indeed a dark skin and black people. This image shows the sarcophagus of tadja abusir el meleq one of the mummies whose dna was analysed in the new study.

We are mostly limited to the subjective statements of egyptians and the outsiders who depicted them which suggest that majority of people of pharaonic egypt were neither white nor black by modern. Scouring the history of egypt and ancient egyptians several historians of ancient greece said that ancient egyptians had skin that was melanchroes in other words black or dark skinned.