Egypt
You will also find a much more long-standing and extensive conversation on the subject of Why Cleopatra was definately not black on the Topix website. I have only had the quickest look at this, and there iappears to be a fairly standard mixture of interesting /thoughtful and thoroughly silly posts - so visit at your own risk :-)
- Cleopatra’s True Racial Background (and Does It Really Matter?)
Oxford University Press blog (Duane W. Roller) Racial profiling and manipulation have been around for a very long time. It has become an issue in contemporary politics, and over 2500 years ago the Greek historian Herodotos wrote that ethnicity was regularly...
- Review (and Author's Response): History Lesson
History Lesson by Mary Lefkowitz (Yale University Press) The Wall Street Journal (Reviewed by John Leo) I've had to carve this review up to give a sense of its direction without stealing the entire thing. It is a fascinating piece and the response...
- 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...
- Ethnicity Of Tutankhamun
Philadelphia Weekly For Mukasa Afrika, it’s another blow in a continuing assault. In June 2005 National Geographic magazine featured the reconstructed image of King Tutankhamen on its cover. The headline read: “THE NEW FACE OF KING TUT.” The young...
- Ancient Egyptian Ethnicity
http://www.thuglifearmy.com/news/?id=1475 An article raising the subject of the ethnicity of the Ancient Egyptians, and supporting the view that they were of black African origins and culture. It claims that beginning with Napoleon, the true ethnicity...
Egypt
Why King Tut's ethnicity is such a complex issue
Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Barnes)
The author raises the issue of why the exhibition, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of Pharaohs has resulted in protestors saying that the organizers have downplayed the role of black Africa in Egypt's past. It is impossible to take extracts from this narrative to try to convey the overall message of the article, but here's a flavour of it:
The author raises the issue of why the exhibition, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of Pharaohs has resulted in protestors saying that the organizers have downplayed the role of black Africa in Egypt's past. It is impossible to take extracts from this narrative to try to convey the overall message of the article, but here's a flavour of it:
The King Tut Action Committee of Philadelphia declared that the Franklin Institute had "knowingly misrepresented the young African king and African history, culture and heritage to over a million visitors." . . . .
Of course, asking, "Was Tut black?" raises the uneasy issue of what "black" is, of how much racial heritage constitutes "blackness." The Egyptians built their four millennia of culture in northern Africa and down the Nile, so the idea that they were a blend of genetics from (what we now call) Europe, the Near East, and sub-Saharan Africa is hardly absurd.
This subject always generates responses, and for anyone who has a close interest in the subject of ancient Egyptian ethnicity, you might want to have a look at an earlier post on the subject, which has now generated twenty comments by people offering very different opinions on the subject. If you want to join that conversation, please keep it civil! I have had to filter out a few posts, which were unacceptable due to the way in which they were phrased. Unfortunately, you will find that most of the people who posted are "Anonymous".
You will also find a much more long-standing and extensive conversation on the subject of Why Cleopatra was definately not black on the Topix website. I have only had the quickest look at this, and there iappears to be a fairly standard mixture of interesting /thoughtful and thoroughly silly posts - so visit at your own risk :-)
- Cleopatra’s True Racial Background (and Does It Really Matter?)
Oxford University Press blog (Duane W. Roller) Racial profiling and manipulation have been around for a very long time. It has become an issue in contemporary politics, and over 2500 years ago the Greek historian Herodotos wrote that ethnicity was regularly...
- Review (and Author's Response): History Lesson
History Lesson by Mary Lefkowitz (Yale University Press) The Wall Street Journal (Reviewed by John Leo) I've had to carve this review up to give a sense of its direction without stealing the entire thing. It is a fascinating piece and the response...
- 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...
- Ethnicity Of Tutankhamun
Philadelphia Weekly For Mukasa Afrika, it’s another blow in a continuing assault. In June 2005 National Geographic magazine featured the reconstructed image of King Tutankhamen on its cover. The headline read: “THE NEW FACE OF KING TUT.” The young...
- Ancient Egyptian Ethnicity
http://www.thuglifearmy.com/news/?id=1475 An article raising the subject of the ethnicity of the Ancient Egyptians, and supporting the view that they were of black African origins and culture. It claims that beginning with Napoleon, the true ethnicity...