the "new" ancient Egyptians were MENA (like around Cleopatra's and possibly Tut's time)
the "old" ancient Egyptians were probably some kind of Black African. It's just really obvious when you look at the sphinx.
There's also a disturbingly small amount of DNA samples available from Egypt, despite having some of the best preserved DNA of the last 6000 years. DNA DOES degrade fast in hot climates, but Egypt is bone-dry and they have tons of it in underground chambers, which are cooler. There should be no excuse.
The genomic data we have of them being MENA comes from only 3 ancient individuals (I forget which era). To put that into perspective, we have over 100 genomic samples from the Central Asian steppe 5000 years ago. It's very hard to believe that in a bone-dry environment where people entombed mummified corpses in underground cool chambers, and only a few thousand years ago, that there's no ancient DNA left.
TLDR:
the further back you go, the blacker it looks
the further back you go, the more mind-boggling the architecture/technology becomes
Zahi Hawass and co. are almost definitely hiding DNA and archeological evidence (in my opinion)
and no I'm not Black, I'm Indian, but we're very familiar with mayos and their pets whitewashing or "lightwashing" our history as well. Depictions of Rajendra Chola for example, have become literally Turkish looking, despite him being a Tamil king with 1000-year-old cave paintings depicting him as dark brown.
the "new" ancient Egyptians were MENA (like around Cleopatra's and possibly Tut's time)
the "old" ancient Egyptians were probably some kind of Black African. It's just really obvious when you look at the sphinx.
There's also a disturbingly small amount of DNA samples available from Egypt, despite having some of the best preserved DNA of the last 6000 years. DNA DOES degrade fast in hot climates, but Egypt is bone-dry and they have tons of it in underground chambers, which are cooler. There should be no excuse.
The genomic data we have of them being MENA comes from only 3 ancient individuals (I forget which era). To put that into perspective, we have over 100 genomic samples from the Central Asian steppe 5000 years ago. It's very hard to believe that in a bone-dry environment where people entombed mummified corpses in underground cool chambers, and only a few thousand years ago, that there's no ancient DNA left.
TLDR:
and no I'm not Black, I'm Indian, but we're very familiar with mayos and their pets whitewashing or "lightwashing" our history as well. Depictions of Rajendra Chola for example, have become literally Turkish looking, despite him being a Tamil king with 1000-year-old cave paintings depicting him as dark brown.