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If you look at any of the ancient statues they don't look black, whatever the recent propaganda tries to push. It doesn't make any sense to put everyone in those four racial boxes - an Ethiopian looks as distinct from a South African as a Spaniard and a Swede
Right, the later pharaos were often greek.
This is awfully inaccurate. One singular dynasty, after alexander, was fully greek. Greek pharaohs weren't just a thing. There was one greek family that declared themselves Pharaohs after Alexander died.
Now that you mention it, wasn't it about Kleopatra?
Edit: well that dynasty lasted for 275 years, before they were incorporated into Rome: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemaic_dynasty
Yeah, 275 years of 3120. Still one dynasty, the way the comment was phrased made it seem like there would randomly be Greek Pharaohs in the middle of the Egyptian ones. I wanted to make it clear that they were a distinct thing of their own.
Is there some sort of debate about the origin of museum pieces thats been going on?
@Rekorse @BlushedPotatoPlayers Meh. More on colonialism and its impact. After Salah posted a pic at the British museum of a statue removed from Egypt. Just realized A) Mohamed Salah posted that shit last year and B) it was taken during the Ottoman rule of Egypt which kind of answers most of the questions I had. Some had said it had been paid for etc… it was relatively war torn as the Turks, French, and Brits had all been having a field day. Turks for quite a while.
Interesting, that does complicate the question of where to return some of these items. Maybe museums should be limited to representing the local regions history.
a clear lack of historical knowledge. plenty of the statue do have black features, they stop having black features first in lower Egypt and then much latter in upper Egypt, because there was a migration from asia/arabia and europe into Africa the vast majority of what we think of as ancient Egypt was created by black skinned people from Africa whos culture was preserved when they migrated south into Ethiopia and Sudan and later south Sudan the group of people we understand as Arabs today didnt even exists at the time. And the fact that Africa is diverse has nothing to do with this.