Egypt
How Do You Take Your Tut?
http://www.opinioneditorials.com/freedomwriters/jjordan_20050929.html
An article taking an uncompromsing look at the recent discussions about whether the Ancient Eygptians were black or white. Written by Jim Jordan, and entitled How Do You Take Your Tut, Black or with Cream and Sugar? this is an articulate piece, but it is not going to please everyone: "King Tut's coming to Fort Lauderdale's Museum of Art in December, and he won't be alone. There is a coterie of 'African scholars' and black activists who will be protesting the appearance of the boy king. You see the ex-Pharaoh's portrait doesn't look enough like Kanye West. King Tut appears in a medium skin tone as scientists chose the most common skin color in Eqypt today. According to the so-called scholars Tut was black".
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Photo For Today - More From The Walters Art Museum
Copyright Rick Menges, with my thanks WM-EG020 (Top) Relief Displaying the King Suckled by the Hathor-Cow Artist: Anonymous (Egyptian) Date (Period): ca. 1300-1200 BC (New Kingdom) Medium: limestone with paint Measurements: H: 8 7/16 x W: 13 in. (21.5...
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Conference: Third Eye Conference To Explore King Tut's Ethnicity
Dallas News What was the ethnicity of King Tut? Because Egypt is on the northern region of the African continent, some black culture enthusiasts vigorously proclaim long-standing theories that black Africans can claim the young pharaoh as a racial kinsman....
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Hawass Says That Tutankhamun Was Not Black
AFP Egyptian antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass insisted Tuesday that Tutankhamun was not black despite calls by US black activists to recognise the boy king's dark skin colour."Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilisation...
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More On Issues Re Tutankhamun Reconstruction
http://tinyurl.com/7qnhc Yet more on the way in which Tutankhamun has been portrayed: "Even assuming that the sculptor had some scientific basis for determining 'the average' skin color of modern Egyptians, what would that have to do with the...
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Professor Protests That King Tut Was Black
http://tinyurl.com/aesq7 "Using forensics to make King Tutankhamun appear to be white is a move to remake him, like all things Egyptian, to fit a non-African image, according to Maulana Karenga, a popular Afrocentric scholar . . . . Karenga, the creator...
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