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This is a difficult question to answer because of the controversial nature of the subject of race. Biological definitions of race and social definitions of race are often not consistent. Also unfortunately there has been a history of racist ideas in Western academia that were often fixated on separating Egypt culturally and biologically from the rest of the African continent. However mainstream, modern scholarship has advanced to the point where there are academically honest experts who can give us some answers. It has been suggested by at least one prominent Biological Anthropologist that in terms of skin color the typical modern Upper Egyptian to Nubian color would have been the model in most of the country (see the research of Shomarka Keita on Ancient Egyptian biological affinities). That would imply a range in skin color on average from medium to dark brown.
A recent study which performed a histological analysis of the skin on Ancient Egyptian noble mummies from Upper Egypt found it to be, "packed with melanin as expected for specimens of Negroid origin" (see Mekota and Vermehren 2004). Skeletal remains of the Ancient Egyptians have been studied for many years. Their limb proportions have been determined to be tropical suggesting that the ancestors of the Ancient Egyptians migrated from the tropics upon settling the Nile Valley (see Zakrzewski 2004).
Predynastic Egyptian crania at the time of state formation cluster with Northeastern Nilotic, Northwestern Saharan and tropical East Africans (see Keita 1993). There seems to have been a change in craniometric patterns in later periods as Late Dynastic Northern Egyptians have centroid values between African and European series. DNA analysis of 12th Dynasty mummies reveal that they have multiple lines of descent including from Sub-Saharan Africa (see Paabo and Di Rienzo 1993). The other lineages were not identified.
Archeological and Linguistic research indicates that the Ancient Egyptians were indigenous to the continent of Africa (see Hassan 1988 and Ehret 1996). Art objects are not considered to be useful by Biological Anthropologists because they are suspect as data and interpretations are highly dependent on stereotyped thinking but some scholars have noted that much of the Dynastic statuary have variations on the narrow nosed, narrow faced East African facial morphology. By taking a multidisciplinary approach several modern scholars have come to the conclusion that the Ancient Egyptians were an indigenous Northeast African people who were tropically adapted and shared biological affinities with their more Southerly African neighbors.
This is in reference to the early Ancient Egyptians as over time Egypt gradually absorbed foreigners from the Near East and Europe which became a recurring phenomenon after the series of invasions following the New Kingdom period. Immigration was especially significant during the Greco-Roman and Islamic periods of Egyptian history.
So ancient Egypt was indeed an indigenous African civilization and its people looked like modern Northeast Africans like those in modern Upper Egypt, Northern Sudan and the Horn of Africa. If you consider your average Upper Egyptian, Nubian, Eritrean or Somali to be Black then yes by your definition they were Black. But bare in mind that native Africans have a range of physical characteristics. They don't all have one particular phenotype. There was variation within the Nile Valley during the Dynastic period as there is in Northeast Africa today.
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What kind of a man was the pharaoh ozymandias?
what kind of man was the pharaoh ozymandias,doyou think ? qoute from the poem to subtantiate your thebes
Which pharaoh pretended to be a man?
Queen Hapshepsut
Who had more power the pharaoh or Joseph in Egypt?
In the Biblical account, Pharaoh delegates part of his own authority and power to Joseph. Joseph is clearly an important man, but he's still subject to Pharaoh.
What is the name of a female Egyptian pharaoh?
Hatshepsut was the woman who ruled as Pharaoh of Egypt between 1473-1458 BC. (Cleopatra was Pharaoh but did not rule as a man)
Who was the leader in Egypt in 3100 BC?
Pharaoh Menes also known as the scorpion king
Was the pharAOh rameses a black man?
No, pharaoh Ramses was not a black man, he was a little more darker than tan.
Is phoraoh god?
pharaoh* No. Pharaoh is not God. He is a man and therefore not God, for God is not man (Hosea 11:9).
What was the name of the pharaoh. Who was a women but ruled Egypt as a man?
Hatshepsut was the woman who ruled as Pharaoh of Egypt between 1473-1458 BC. (Cleopatra was Pharaoh but did not rule as a man)
Who is the black pharaoh?
All pharaohs were black ... Egypt is in Africa.
What kind of a man was the pharaoh ozymandias?
what kind of man was the pharaoh ozymandias,doyou think ? qoute from the poem to subtantiate your thebes
Who is the beautiful and intelligent queen of Egypt?
The beautiful and intelligent queen of ancient Egypt is Cleopatra. But a Pharaoh is suppose to be a man! because god is a man and that's why a Pharaoh has to be a man, girls were a fake beard so than they can be a Pharaoh!
Who is the Taco Man?
Nick/Pharaoh/Grandma/Taco Man
Was Hatshepsup a Egyptian Pharaoh?
Yes, Hatshepsut is an Egyptian pharaoh. She was the first woman to be a pharaoh, but she had to dress like a man because the egyptians thought that woman shouldn't be pharaoh's.
How do egyptians choose royalty?
The first pharaoh Narmer declared himself pharaoh over Egypt. The next pharaoh would always be a man and would be of the pharaoh's bloodline. If the pharaoh died early, a male cousin,nephew,etc,would be the next pharaoh. If the only man related to the pharaoh was not approved, the pharaoh would pick a different person, not always of bloodline. Once, a man became a pharaoh just for digging out the Great Spinx. So it wouldn't always be of bloodline.
What does a pharaoh think about?
Pharaohs of Egypt were great. And Cleopatra was a pharaoh... or queen of Egypt. Yeah man...
Which pharaoh pretended to be a man?
Queen Hapshepsut
Who was the lady pharaoh that acted like a man?
Hatshepsut
