That's right, the ancient Egyptians weren't black. They weren't white either, mind you, but to presume that a culture has to be one or the other is to accept a racial dichotomy that white colonialists themselves invented for the purpose of sorting the world into "civilized" (white) and "savage" (colored) peoples.Dec 1, 2014 read more
Ancient Egyptians had representatives of various "racial" types and skin colors, just as modern Egyptians do. Nothing has changed the fundamental genetic makeup of the population since ancient times -- the Arab migrations, let us not forget, were comprised of relatively few people. read more
Diop, William Leo Hansberry, and Aboubacry Moussa Lam have argued that kmt was derived from the skin color of the Nile valley people, which Diop claimed was black. The claim that the ancient Egyptians had black skin has become a cornerstone of Afrocentric historiography. read more