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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by JoshuaConnerMoon: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by sudaniya: [qb] To quote one of my favourite posters: The reference to Black skinned and woolly haired Egyptians has been translated as such in Herodutus Histories not only by Rawlinson, but Aubrey De Selincourt and most others and indeed, I am unaware of any African translation of Herodotus the Histories. The idea that "Black skinned and woolly haired" is an "Afrocentric" interpretation is therefore a non-starter. And the notion of intepreting Herodotus in some other way (where Black does not mean "Black" is largely a sop to Eurocentric political correctness and disingenuousness- re-writing the Histories. [/qb][/QUOTE]Because those scholars are/were not experts in ancient Greek colour. The experts do not automatically translate melas as black and leukos as white. An example is the Iliad. 20. 496 where barley is described as leukos. [IMG]https://abm-website-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/laboratoryequipment.com/s3fs-public/legacyimages/Resources/Laboratory_News/0511_lw_barley.jpg[/IMG] Does this look white to you? Leukos ranges from chalk-white to a faint light brown like barley [in context this would explain Greek leukos-armed godesses, not as pale-white but a faint brown]. Similarly we find melas used to describe things that are not pitch-black or dark brown, but shades that are lighter brown. but experts who examine this stuff in better context of ancient Greek colour terminology are "Eurocentrists"... :rolleyes: [/qb][/QUOTE]Why, when so much art has been shown that is dark brown or medium brown do you keep talking about light brown? Name any pharaoh who is depicted light brown - I dare you [QUOTE]Originally posted by JoshuaConnerMoon: There is no such thing as "Eurocentrism": the Asiatic/Dynastic race theories and Hamiticism do not say migrants from Europe created ancient Egyptian civilization, but peoples from Southwest Asia. [/QUOTE]Some would say that to suggest the Egyptians were from Southwest Asia is Eurocentric because the aim is to remove the from African origin and make them not black when if we look at the art thousands of images are as dark as people regarded black in Europe and America And if they were of Middle Eastern origin that would connect them more to the Middle/Near Eastern input to the Neolithic on Europe placing them also closer biologically on a relative basis to European than if they were regarded are primarily African Also the Nile Valley civilization is a river civilization and the Nile flows North to South starting in Ethiopia so geographically it is quite different from the berbers nomadic desert lifestyle [/QB][/QUOTE]
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