Ancient Egyptians diversity?

[Brokenheartedx]

Fascinating part of time that nobody knows much about apart from deciphering drawings. Led me to youtube then to the usual arguments about race, the 'were they brown or were they black' and it got me thinking, that all the intelligence from the ancient world lost to bloody racism in the modern world. We all know Egyptians would have been darker skinned along with royalty apart from a Macedonian branch who would have been lighter obviously. As the drawings show ancient Egyptians were actually diverse there wasn't a specific brown or black group in their drawings, they had both. If they wanted to erase one group they would have by not drawing. So I don't get youtube videos of either race trying to claim ancient Egyptians as just their heritage when drawings depict both brown and black people, Could it be they freely mingled and didn't give a shit what colour they were?

[EssenceOfLight]

Haplogroup tests show most ancient Egyptian mummies have very often R1b YDNA and H / K mtDNA. Origin of those haplogroups are Eurasian steppes. Of course it doesn't say anything about skin color of those people but Region their ancestors came from.

[Brokenheartedx]

Would that not be the Macedonian genes in some of the newer mummies, hence red skin drawings, me thinking sunburn of the harsh sun , there's the older mummies that predate the newer kingdom that dna draw more to Arab and African dna.

[EssenceOfLight]

Unlikely. Some of those mummies are dated 2000-1000 B. C. and Y-DNA R1b was very rare in ancient Greece (Kingdom of Macedonia).
Tutankhamun's Y-DNA R1b subclade is rather common in Spain than in Greece or in Egypt.