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[QUOTE]Originally posted by lamin: [QB] The sensible approach is place the greatest reliability on what the AEs themselves did in terms of self-presentation. Given how the Eurocentric mind is often unable to represent the phenotypical reality of the AEs as this thread clearly demonstrates one should be cautious when important AE personalites are detombed and presented as mummies of what the AEs themselves portrayed. Quite often there is big variance in what the tomb excavators present and how the AEs portrayed such personalities. OK, a tomb of a Pharaoh is opened up and the embalmed mummy removed. The embalmed looks quite different from the way the AEs sculpted this pharaoh. So what is one to say? The hieroglyphs clearly say who the scultpted personage is but the contents of the sarcophagus are less secure in their certainty as to who that individual was. And it would seem that for embalming purposes the head would be shaved and the hair--if any--collected and stored alongside the body. Hair would tend to get in the way of the procedures done. But in any case the curly hair may well belong to personage in question since in the Sudanic area of Africa curly hair is often observed. But again, what the AEs did should always be treated with greater credibility than what Eurocentric excavators present to their European audiences. I mean if they can so blatantly misrepresent the phenotypes of the AEs even when they are supposedly just copying from the murals then they are capable of any fraud when they are handling mummies. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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