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Originally posted by Tukuler:

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Originally posted by Oshun:

by the the time her family came to Egypt, Lower Egypt and much of Upper Egypt would not be best described as black in phenotype.

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Ahistoric nonsense.
During and after the Ptolemys, Greeks&Romans author Egyptians a generally black populace, despite centuries of conquest by and well-known admixture with non-Africans.

-350 Ptolemaic era Aristotle wrote Egyptians were too black.

-300 Diogenes lets us know 'Egyptian Vine-shoot' was the nickname of a tall, skinny, twisted neck man of black complexion.

Turn of Eras Strabo tried to explain why Egyptians are darker than Indians.

+60 Ammianus Marcellinus preserves 1st century Common Era Egyptians as brown and black.

+ 160 Lucian records a conversant describing an Egyptian boy black.

+ 2nd century Achilles Tatius noted herdsman in the Delta were blackish like half and halves.

All the above is common knowledge since 1981.
As late as Byzantium a north Med writer is still placing Egyptians between Sudan and India colorwise.
And the early Islamic authors rank the Qubti among other blacks as per the Semitic religion based views.

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"O stranger maids, I may not trust this word,
That ye have share in this our Argive race.
No likeness of our country do ye bear,
But semblance as of Libyan womankind.
Even such a stock by Nilus' banks might grow;
Yea, and the Cyprian stamp, in female forms,
Shows, to the life, what males impressed the same.
And, furthermore, of roving Indian maids
Whose camping-grounds by Aethiopia lie,
And camels burdened even as mules, and bearing
Riders, as horses bear, mine ears have heard;
And tales of flesh-devouring mateless maids
Called Amazons: to these, if bows ye bare,
I most had deemed you like. Speak further yet,
That of your Argive birth the truth I learn."

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