re: Uh-oh... Scientists prove ancient Egyptians weren't "African."

I've been anticipating this paper and didn't know it had been released. I am an ancient DNA junkie since it can solve a lot of archaeological mysteries that weren't possible until now. Thanks for posting.

By the way, everyone who knows anything about Egypt already knew they weren't Sub-Saharan Africans.





Those people aren't black and you don't need DNA to discern that. The blonde hair on the top pic isn't natural (no grown man has hair that platinum), but it still shows they have Caucasian hair (straight and slightly wavy). The Egyptians (at least the elites) were about like modern Jews or Lebanese or something in that realm. They were Caucasian but not "Nordic" like some white nationalists try to claim.

Now, there were black people in Egypt, but they were mostly there for trade or to work. The Nubian empire was an enemy (or at least a rival) of Egypt and the two empires didn't always get along. Indeed, there are many Egyptian reliefs showing the Pharaohs leading armies against the Nubians (and clearly depict them as black, as opposed to the lighter Egyptians).