Was Egypt always White? or used to be black? (nationalist, examples, claim)

[slackjaw]

Some look black, some look white, most look somewhere in-between like an arab with kinky hair.

[tonythetuna]

Originally Posted by EuroTrashed

Fayum mummy portraits - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Those people don't really look Greek to me. Although I do see some Greek and Roman features in a number of them.

Most of them pretty much look like modern Egyptians.

I looked at other portraits that are not on wiki and do see a more wide ranging amount of ethnic looks however.

Here is clearly a Greek or Roman:

Graeco-Roman Mummy Mask's | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickmard/4029838677/ - broken link)

Here I think is one of Cat Steven's ancestors :

Mummy Portrait Encaustic on Wood Fayum Egypt Roman Period 2nd Century CE | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mharrsch/3662020379/in/photostream/ - broken link)

[Casper in Dallas]

Originally Posted by tonythetuna

Those people don't really look Greek to me. Although I do see some Greek and Roman features in many of them.

They pretty much look like modern Egyptians.

Because they are the same people that have lived there for over 3000 Years.
Casper

[Dd714]

Originally Posted by EuroTrashed

Fayum mummy portraits - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Euro, no argument on the accuracy, except to say that artistics of those times stuck to the methodology cannon, and followed the cannon. This is greek portrait art, and the subjects would be changed to fit the cannon.

Also it appears to be of one community, in the lower Delta (north of Egypt). Even in my visits today, the people of Cairo (middle Egypt) looked distinctly different from the people of Aswan or Luxur (to the south).

[jeffington]

Originally Posted by All American NYC

Just out of curiosity....

Was Egypt always White? or used to be black?

Egypt is located in Africa there has been much controversy about who used to be Egyptian.

No, the pyramids wereNOT built by a group of people who can't built an adobe hut today.

[ovcatto]

Originally Posted by jeffington

No, the pyramids wereNOT built by a group of people who can't built an adobe hut today.

[ABQConvict]

Not many everyday Norwegians can build a Stave Church anymore. What's your point?

[sailordave]

In ancient times, slavery was very common and was not limited to black africans nor were the slave owners exclusively white europeans. With slavery came interbreeding. Combine that with conquest and defeat of various nations and you have a great melting of races. Black africans, arabs, persians, greeks, and romans all contribute to the current make up of your average egyptian. North Africa all have such non-black african skin tone. It's telling that there are people who think that if you're African, you must be black.

[theother]

Originally Posted by workingclasshero

no its not a controversy

egypt like most middleeast countries is a meltingpot gateway country

they are not 'black...(subsaharan)...and they are not white european... they are a mix

[theother]

I think the ones you see mostly now are Black (sub-Saharan) and white mixed..I don't think many of them are naturally pure blooded black and white..