What did Ancient Egyptians look like?

[curiousnorway]

I've Googled it and I've not found any answers yet. Some says they looks Sub-Saharan. But other says they either looks Middle-eastern/Arabic, Caucasian etc.

#AncientEgypt #Appearance #Ethnicity
(GAG should get a history category by the way)

[tartaarsaus]

Ancient Egypt spans a time over 3000 years. According to the book of gates, there were 4 big groups in ancient Egypt at some points. Notably, the Reth (Egyptians), Aamu (Asian), Themehu (Libyans), Nehesu (Nubians). See the image, Egyptians are in the far right

However, study (http://www. bmj. com/content/345/bmj. e8268) has shown that Ramses III were determined to be of group E1B1a haplogroup, most common in sub-saharan Africa. Once again, in a linked picture.

Some 18th dynasty mummies were linked to sub-saharan Africa, most notably the areas in the Great Lakes and Tropical west-Africa. This study was conducted by DNA tribes digest.

Anthropological study has also shown the skull structure of Ancient Egyptians are indigenous to Africa.(http://www. egyptsearch. com/forums/ultimatebb. cgi? f=8&t=008815&ubb=get_topic)

[tartaarsaus]

Generally, the ancient Egyptians were quite multi-racial with people from many different areas

[curiousnorway]

Thanks for answer. : )

[tartaarsaus]

www.express.co.uk/.../amp

Although this gives another perspective on it, these scientists say the Egyptians were from the Levant.

[MuffinHead]

Nice answer

[tartaarsaus]

@MuffinHead Thanks

[VladSparr]

Being so long ago, it is hard to determine what they looked like. On some of their painting where the color has survived, they often portrayed themselves as light-skinned. Recently DNA from one of their Pharaohs' suggests that the Ancient Egyptians had a significant amount of Caucasian/Western European genetics in them. It is possible that some Ancient Egyptians, if they were alive today, could be mistaken for Caucasians, but the fact remains that they definitely had dark skin compared to modern ethnic Europeans, but probably lighter skin than modern ethnic Egyptians.

Also, yes a History tag would be wonderful!

[Pamstah]

Not really Arabic. I'm Egyptian and DNA has shown that I belong to the oldest original family here. My family is like one of the purest with Egyptian blood so I think that I somewhat look like my ancestors

[Eternallylucky]

African mixed with nordics (red and blonde). They had long elongated heads hence they needed a long tube head dressing (chef hat) to hide that bulging head at the back

[Eternallylucky]

The middle eastern race invaded the country in 17 century.

[Eternallylucky]

The nordic aliens. You could say they looked like the pre adamites found in antartica ancient ruins

[ChocoLada]

They looked just like any other Hamitic ethnicity (Berbers, Moors, Tuareg etc). They were not Arabs, nor black Africans.

[PoliceLivesMatter]

Sub-Saharan sounds about right. Egypt is in Africa. The climate there would've made the people who lived there have darker pigmentation.

[curiousnorway]

I've seen a lot of discussions. Some says Egyptians were black and had West-African similar facial features, but other says it's not true.

[TheDamnYankeeLad]

It's one of those things where as far as we can tell, all of the above. Egypt was an ethnic clusterfuck. You could pretty much find anyone from anywhere at some period of time.

[TheDamnYankeeLad]

You had Nubian pharoahs from 750. BC onward until the Greek conquest, and before that you had the clusterfuck kings.

[PoliceLivesMatter]

Yeah, I was just mentioning how maybe the environment could've influenced how these individuals looked like. Specifically, their skin pigmentation.

[TheDamnYankeeLad]

Yeah I know what you're saying. It's just annoying to me when people go "The Ancient Egyptians werw this or that" because they were... along with everything else.

[PoliceLivesMatter]

Agreed

[JimRSmith]

Not too dissimilar to the classic 'Egyptian' art.

A lot of people in Egypt still have this look, it's not gone away. Put them in make up, contemporary clothing etc and send them back in time and they'd fit right in.

[DarkBlack9]

More often with tan skin colour (no-black-no-white), the males and females both wore black eye linings , don't know why. An average height of an ancient Egyptian man was 159cm and women 153cm.
However Tutankhamen is believed to have had white skin.

In 1844, Samuel George Morton wrote that the Nile valley "was originally peopled by a branch of the Caucasian race" - Wikipedia

George Gliddon (1844) wrote: "The Egyptians were white men, of no darker hue than a pure Arab, a Jew, or a Phoenician." - Wikipedia

Hope this helped

[curiousnorway]

They wore eyeliners for both fashion, beauty and because it made seeing easier outside in strong sun light. In addition they believed it would keep bad demons and sickness away.

[DarkBlack9]

@curiousnorway Thank you, I didn't know that they wore them to keep demons and sickness away, good you told that

[DonkeyRick69]

They were Caucasians. Their ethnicity was Coptic and they looked like most mediterean peoples. Anyone who says otherwise is being racist towards the Coptic people of Egypt and likely trying to appropriate their culture and ancient heritage.

[None11am]

I read this article recently, and I'll try to find it for you, but basically some anthropologists managed to determine through DNA tests that ancient Egyptians were most likely Levantine (like Syrians or Lebanese) and were lighter-skinned than today. They now think that at some point African blood from the south entered the Egyptian bloodstream, which is why they're darker today.

[TheUglyMonk]

Lower Egypt were lighter *North of Egypt* (Looked like Berber), Upper Egypt were darker *South of Egypt* (Looked like Nubian), The Eastern side of Egypt were mixed with Asians and Hyksos (Semites).

Ancient Egypt was a relatively big empire which stretched to other parts of Africa (Sudan and nearby nations) and West Asia (Syria and nearby nations).

[samhradh_leannan]

They walked with their bodies facing sideways, obviously.

[PunkinPie]

I was gonna say "flat." Lol

[samhradh_leannan]

@PunkinPie Lol!

[ElissaDido]

They look like modern day Egyptians.
Not white, not black.
They looked like berbers and Nubians.

[Pink2000]

There's no way they would look Caucasian. Look at where Egypt is located.

[VladSparr]

They may not have all looked Caucasian, but recent DNA findings shows that they definitely had Caucasian genes in them. Thousands of years ago, the average human looked a little different than they do now, so it is quite possible that many regions that are now inhabited by certain people's were once inhabited by people of a different race or ethnicity. Example: modern Turks came from beyond the Caspian Sea during the Mongol Invasions, and upon their arrival in modern day Turkey they interbred and eventually put the Native Anatolian people groups (Pontics; Cappadocians; etc.) into extinction.

I'm not saying ancient Egyptians were or were not white or black or brown, all I am saying is that over time demographics of places change and we can never really know what ancient people groups looked like.

[DarkBlack9]

@Pink2000 In the beginnings Egyptians were nomads who migrated to this land and started cultivation and farming beside the river Nile. So, they can be Caucasians they don't look like Negroids.

[FakeName123]

It depends on which time-period. Egypt has been ruled by blacks, whites and arabs.

[disgustingweebtrash]

the black KANGZ of Egypt built d pyramids n shiet and now evil whitey is trynna finna way to steal credit for building d pyramids!

[rodeocowboy75]

it's a known fact ghangis khans bloodline is present in modern days population by 1/3 that is phenomenal mabe start there?

[TheSpartan]

Mediterranean, likely much like the Minoan Greeks

They were in no way Negroid.

[tartaarsaus]

Why do you think they can't be negroid?

[curiousnorway]

@TheSpartan, are there any evidence they couldn't be Negroid?

[TheSpartan]

There's no genetic evidence that they were. Where would this giant black population have gone? Plus, genetic analyses of mummies show them to be Greek.

[tartaarsaus]

www.egyptsearch.com/.../ultimatebb.cgi

Shows they were indigenous Africans

[tartaarsaus]

Next to that, Egyptian books like the book of gates, and their statues and such clearly show negroid.

[TheSpartan]

@tartaarsaus yes, they were indigenous Africans. So what? Sub-Saharan Africans aren't native to North Africa, not even close. The Egyptians looked like pre-Arab North Africans, in other words, Greek.

[tartaarsaus]

@TheSpartan Ancient Egypt existed long before the Greeks even started colonising areas.

[TheSpartan]

@tartaarsaus sure, but they looked like Greeks, being in proximity to Greece and both Mediterranean.

[tartaarsaus]

@TheSpartan So they aren't Greek, unlike what you said.

[TheSpartan]

@tartaarsaus the later ones were. There was a Greek influx after the Mycenaean Era, especially during the Hellenistic era.

[scorpioDude]

its in Africa... so black people. Dot listen to other people Trust me they aren't white lol if they were white they would have had skin cancer

[VV3ZZY]

They all looked like actors with make-up and dreadlocks

[SuccessfulHornDog]

According to some in America they were full black Nubian warriors.

[Blitzkrieger]

They looked like the coptic egyptians
today before the arabs invaded them.

[dev64]

they looked like people but had tons of jewelry and ceremonies

[alice55]

I think they had their special look.

[EmoKate97]

WE
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KANGS!

[Aleksandra2330]

interesting question i imagine them like arabic

[sedrftvgyhujik]

a lot of them where bald to ward off lice

[Vyrakh]

They looked like Arabs and Persians do.

[TripleAce]

Aliens
For sure lol

[cupidkisses]

they were unique

[DNB1994]

Like stick figures.

[raulsilveira]

Cats