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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ish Gebor: [QB] ^ Interesting. [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]In what position are you, to tell who is an expert on classical Greek or not and to what degree? Perhaps you can explain / show Greek classic texts, describing ancient Egyptian art? Such as the murals posted by Sudaniya. Beside that: [QUOTE] Herodotus [b](c. 484 – 425/413 BCE)[/b] was a writer who invented the field of study known today as `history’. [/QUOTE] http://www.ancient.eu/herodotus/ [QUOTE] Outside influence and admixture with extra- regional groups primarily occurred in Lower Egypt perhaps during the later dynastic, but especially in Ptolmaic and Roman times (also Irish, 2006). No large-scale population replacement in the form of a foreign dynastic ‘race’ (Petrie, 1939) was indicated. Our results are generally consistent with those of Zakrzewski (2007). [/QUOTE]—Irish JD et al. (2006, 2009) "Further analysis of the population history of ancient Egyptians". American Journal of Physical Anthropology [QUOTE] “While commonly believed to represent Greek settlers in Egypt, the Faiyum portraits instead reflect the complex synthesis of the predominant Egyptian culture and that of the elite Greek minority in the city. According to Walker, the early Ptolemaic Greek colonists married local women and adopted Egyptian religious beliefs, and by Roman times, their descendants were viewed as Egyptians by the Roman rulers, despite their own self-perception of being Greek. The dental morphology of the Roman-period Faiyum mummies was also compared with that of earlier [b]The dental morphology of the Roman-period Faiyum mummies was also compared with that of earlier Egyptian populations, and was found to be "much more closely akin" to that of ancient Egyptians than to Greeks or other European populations.[/b]“ [/QUOTE]—Irish JD et al. (2006). "Who were the ancient Egyptians? Dental affinities among Neolithic through postdynastic peoples". Am J Phys Anthropol 129 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16331657 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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