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[QUOTE]Originally posted by rahotep101: [QB] I have the same problem with people who use selectivism to show a distorted picture the other way. I think the modern Alexandrians and Cairenes are also likely to have much Ancient Egyptian blood, for the given reason that foreigners- like Jews, Greeks and Armenians- tended to stick to their own communities (and the last of these were mostly kicked out in the 1950s). The north, and especially the Delta, always had a large Egyptian population. There are more than enough dynastic images of light skinned, 'Caucasoid' Egyptians going back to the Old Kindom to invalidate the claim that modern Egyptians with this look must descend from Greeks or Persians or any other 'invaders'. Equally there are enough dark ancient images to invalidate the claim that all darker-skinned modern Egyptians must descend from recent black migrations, or from the Arab slave trade, but that's no reason to ignore the fact that there has been considerable black African migration into Egypt. In short, as I believe Keita said, the diveristy present in modern Egypt, in terms of craniofacial structire, skin tone etc. is much the same as it was in the past. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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