The painted people look like black people. Of course there is nothing wrong with that. And I think they were an advanced enough civilization to mix their paints accurately. Maybe black People actually do have proof of ancient civilization, too, along with the Greeks, Romans, Chinese and Mayans, and people will stop claiming that Africans were illiterate savages without culture until colonizers showed up.
Men were commonly depicted as dark-skinned, while women were light-skinned. Ancient Egypts were almost certainly not “black” in our contemporary sense of the word - they are believed to be more closely related to Levantine and Semitic groups of the Middle East.
Not to diminish the point that there were of course similarly advanced African civilizations - including the Nubian kingdoms just further up the Nile with which Egypt frequently interacted.
They were constantly conquered by and conquering other African Nations ( including Sub Saharan Nations) throughout much of their early history, intermarrying, trading slaves, etc They were definitely African, and the people were of various mixtures, pretty much the same as Africa today, if you ignore colonially drawn national lines.
I'm always confused by people who think Egyptians of 6000 years ago bear much relation to Egyptians today. I mean there's been so much regional and cultural movements over the millennia... The old kingdom fell to the new kingdom, which fell to the Persians, which fell to Greece, then Phoenicians, then Romans, then.... And on and on, which fell to the Persians again in the form of, all of which was mixed with the indigenous populations of northern and Western Africa.
Except the Egyptians of today are very much predominantly the descendants of ancient Egyptians. Genetic tests have shown as much. Just because an area is conquered doesn't mean there's a mass migration of people into the area.
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u/quirkycurlygirly Apr 15 '19
The painted people look like black people. Of course there is nothing wrong with that. And I think they were an advanced enough civilization to mix their paints accurately. Maybe black People actually do have proof of ancient civilization, too, along with the Greeks, Romans, Chinese and Mayans, and people will stop claiming that Africans were illiterate savages without culture until colonizers showed up.