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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mansa Musa: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Masonic Rebel: [qb] Djehuti Quote: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Again, Cleopatra is NOT ethnically Egyptian. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Wrong: Cleopatra was Egyptian She was born in Africa She was Influence by African culture So no one in Cleopatra blood line during the Ptolemaic dynasty never interbred with any of the original Africans who lived there. Yeah Right. :D [IMG]http://www.designtoscano.com/images/us/local/products/viewlarger/WU71550_vl.jpg[/IMG] [/qb][/QUOTE]Yes, it's possible that the Ptolemies mixed with the native Egyptians several generations before Cleopatra and that they may not have looked that differently from the natives by the time she was born. However that would be speculation. The bust you are showing while beautiful is a replica of some other form of art and aesthetically doesn't prove anything it's just like Tut's basalt statue and being jet black doesn't prove anything. Cleopatra's body has never been discovered so there can be no anthropological approach to this discussion. All we know of her ancestry is that her lineage itself was foreign, the Ptolemies were Macedonian, not Egyptian. The Ptolemies like most Greco-Romans were xenophobic, they felt their culture was superior and were very unlikely to take a child born to a non-Greek as an heir to the throne. Alexander the Great had several assassination attempts on his life for marrying Persian women and proposing his children with them to be heirs to the throne, that's how strongly they were opposed to such practices. So while there are many possibilities the likelyhood of Cleopatra having Egyptian ancestry is very small. [IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b383/shurikenjay/cleopatrabust.jpg[/IMG] This bust of her made during her life time does not look like a Tropical African, not even an elongated African. There are plenty of Egyptian queens that we know were ethnically Egyptian. Nefertari, Hatshepsut, Tiye, Nefertiti these queens were Egyptian queens whose families were native to Africa. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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