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[QUOTE]Originally posted by ausar: [QB] [QUOTE]Ausar, you and I have been through this one before along with the anthropological and genetic evidence to date. I have seen no indication that the assimilation of such people within the local population has effected any significant changes. Furthermore, I find it curious that the same population interactions have regularly taken place in the Horn and more, for example, yet the people still look overwhelmingly like Africans from that part of the world. Yet, when it comes to Egyptians some people want to explain the fact that they don't look "black enough" by whatever means possible, however illogical. Actually now that I think of it, East Africans do go through this process also from what I've been told, but they seem to be "dark enough" so it doesn't happen as often![/QUOTE]Well, I am not geneticist but I do know the history of Late Period Egypt to modern Egypt brought many foreign populations in Egypt. Even before such period the Delta was an area that brought many nomadic groups from Western Asia that grazed their livestock. Texts like The Ipuwer papyrus,Tales of Sinuhe,and Instructions of Meri-ka-Re indicate such movement was common place. This was not just the movement of Arabs either but of other groups that migrated to Egypt. Libyans[whom many tie to modern Berbers] migrated in large numbers during the New Kingdom to both the Delta regions and parts of Middle Egypt. I see no reason why such movements would not have had a impact upon the Egyptian population. One thing I learned from personal communication from a geneticist is that physical traits are not always connected to halotypes of alleles,and that loci percentages in Y-chromsom and Mtdna are often inaccurate. One other point is that many of the Egyptian Christian population you can place right next to a Greek or Syriac and hardly tell the difference between the two. Of course there are also Egyptian Christians in Luxor that have the same rich-brown complexion of fellow Muslims. During the Middle Ages al-Maqrizi described that an Egyptian Christian could hardly be distinguished from a Nubian,Abyssian,or a Jewish person. Notice that Arab writers often called Beja nomads the term Abyssinian also. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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