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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Faheemdunkers: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Amun-Ra The Ultimate: [QB] Ancient Egypt was in Africa. You can't be Afrocentrist when you claim it was created by Africans. [/QUOTE]Straw man. This isn't Afrocentrism. "[b]No one disputes that Egypt is in Africa, or that its civilization had elements in common with sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in religion[/b]. However, the claim that all Egyptians, or even all the pharaohs, were black, is not valid. Most scholars believe that Egyptians in antiquity looked pretty much as they look today, with a gradation of darker shades toward the Sudan. Evidence for the racial composition of Egypt comes from a variety of sources. Berry et al. (1967)*, using a “measure of divergence” based on 30 nonmetrical skeletal variants, found that there were significant differences between negroid populations (Ashanti, Sudan), Mediterranean populations (Palestine), and all ancient Egyptian samples. They also found a remarkable degree of constancy in the population of Egypt over a period of 5,000 years. Recent multivariate analysis of crania (Keita, 1990) showed a pattern common to both northern Late Dynastic Egypt and the Maghreb (North Africa west of Egypt) in which both tropical African and European phenotypes, as well as intermediate patterns, were present. (*Berry AC, Berry FLJ, and Ucko PJ (1967) "Genetical change in ancient Egypt". Man. 2. pp. 551-568)" - "Melanin, afrocentricity, and pseudoscience", Bernard R. Ortiz De Montellano. (1993). American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 36, 17, pp. 33–58 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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