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I think any Levantine ancestry in Ramses only amounts to a fag in the woodpile, no where near anywhere near enough to make him "asiatic" in origin though there may well indeed be some connection.
I.E. Alexander Hamilton hails from slavery era Caribbean but is that enough to make him black?
quote:Originally posted by Yonis2: Thanks for this thread, ausars posts above supports exactly what i've been saying all along ...
[...] can deny the asiatic origin/connection of the Ramses family.
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quote:Originally posted by rasol: I find it interesting that Egypto-forensics tend to de-emphasize direct skin color testing, in favor of all manner of bizarre attempts to infer skin color by testing other things.
No doubt they are too afraid of what they expect to be true.
Diop was right all along. If you want an idea of their skin color, just do a melanin test.
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What is also ironic is that when you see the tourist and "native" arabs amongst the wall murals, how much 'blacker" the AE are compared to the tourist and most excavators. And yet it does not sink in.
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^ Which makes you wonder what must be going on in Hawass's head, considering he has seen practically all the murals and paintings! Posts: 26361 | From: Atlanta, Georgia, USA | Registered: Feb 2005
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