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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Concerned member of public: [QB] Note all these schizophrenic flip-floppers. lol. Who remembers like 4-5 years ago, numerous threads were made on Herodotus' description of ancient Egyptian skin pigmentation. 90% (if not more) of the Afro-loons in those threads said Herodotus was an eyewitness of "black skinned" Egyptians (distorting the actual definition of μελάγχροος that as classicist Alan B. Lloyd notes does not strictly mean a dark brown pigmentation, but can be as light as a "bronze-complexion".) We now know ancient Egyptians, from these 8th-1st century BCE samples, had light to intermediate brown skin, as opposed to dark brown ('black') since they carried derived SLC24A5. The latter accounts for 25-38% of the average skin colour variation between Europeans & Sub-Saharan Africans (Lamason et al. 2005). Suddenly now these Afro-loons are saying these peoples were light[er] brown skinned and not black, directly contradicting all their postings on Herodotus. :rolleyes: Also note, Herodotus' main eyewitness testimony was Lower Egypt, so it was northern Egyptians he was describing- "It will be observed that the number of sites visited in Lower Egypt is greater than in Upper Egypt in the proportion 8: 5 and that general reference to Lower Egypt, if we include the Western Desert, and also more numerous. This suggests a longer stay in the north than the south, an indication which tends to be confirmed by the fact that the centre of gravity of Egyptian culture and political life had by Herodotus' time long lain in the north." (Lloyd, A. B. 1976 "Herodotus' Travels in Egypt". In: [i]Herodotus Book II, Commentary 1-98[/i]. Leiden.) Now what? Afrocentrics denying their old posts again. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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