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[QUOTE]Originally posted by HabariTess: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: Then what do you call that if not an afro?[/QUOTE]I don't know what they are, but they are definitely not 'fros. They look more like [URL=http://hairstylesweekly.com/images/2012/06/Inverted-Bob-Haircut.jpg]sassoons/bob hairstyles[/URL]. Look at the Ta-Seti and Egyptian soldier statuettes, they have the exact same cut as the ones you posted on those murals. The only one that genuinly looks like an afro is that pic of Hesire. You can see his ear and his (what seems to be a) 'fro is spherical in shape. [/qb][/QUOTE]I disagree with that observation. Out of all the hair styles/textures out there, they resemble a short fro the most. I'm an artist and I notice the Egyptians drew very simplified versions of people, hair included. If I were to create a simplified black character with a short afro,what the Egyptians depicted would be how the character would have look. You say that Hesire is the only one that look like he has an afro. Hesire hair is actually drawn with the same way as the picture you posted that you said did not look like an afro. The only difference is that Hesire is drawn with a visible ear, which means his hair is obviously growing up and not down and which it would have covered the ears. The pictures of average Egyptians are drawn without ears because the attention to detail for them was less needed. Notice the guy on the right that Djehuti just posted with the very obvious afro next to the guy with the obvious wig. No ears. [IMG][URL=http://s148.photobucket.com/user/Tessier9999/media/egypt_farmers_zps0e0c75cf.png.html] [IMG]http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s33/Tessier9999/egypt_farmers_zps0e0c75cf.png[/IMG][/URL][/IMG] I have to say though, what kind of hair the general Ancient Egyptians have is still an on going mystery to me, though I'm leaning towards them having curly to kinky hair. I have no problem with believing that they had straight to wavy hair, but some things just don't add up though. I remember you saying Swenet how many North African populations have straight to wavy hair and that it would not have been so if the African population in which many of them shared blood, did not also possess such hair, because if you look at many admixed populations with Africans with kinky hair, you will see kinky hair naturally pop up in those populations. With that said, many present day Egyptians do share that curly to kinky hair that many admixed Afro Americans have, so doesn't that suggest that the Ancient Egyptians also shared that hair texture? If not, where did the kinky hair come from in modern Egyptians. If Ausar, an Egyptian himself, also claim that wavy and straight hair isn't common among Egyptians today, isn't that even more proof of a curly to kinky Ancient Egypt? Also, what of the chemicals that was said to straighten hair during the mummification process? If that is so than how do we know of the pictures of the mummies we have now is their natural hair texture? When I look at the mummified Queen Tiye, her hair looks naturally wavy, or is the change that the hair went through so effective that it just looks really natural? I also find it interested how she is depicted in the art. Nothing points to her having such long, wavy hair, or did she just kept it covered all the time? Most of the foreigners who saw the Ancient Egyptians did describe them having hair of curly or wooly quality, which adds on to the side of them having curly to kinky hair overall. Also, the site Djehuti just posted also supports a curly to kinky Ancient Egyptian population. [QUOTE]A team of Italian anthropologists published their research in the Journal of Human Evolution in 1972 and 1980. They measured two samples consisting of 26 individuals from pre-dynastic, 12th dynasty and 18th dynasty mummies. They produced a mean index of 66.50. The overall average of all four sets of ancient Egyptian hair samples was 60.02. Sounds familiar . . ., just check the table! [/QUOTE] http://wysinger.homestead.com/hair2.html [/QB][/QUOTE]
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