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Without a doubt all Egyptians were black for most of its history besides some mixed race people here and there like anywhere in Africa today due to the presence of Greeks and Europeans in northern Egypt.
However the argument that black people aren’t lighter brown which somehow means the Egyptians in lower Egypt weren’t black is a non stater. Just travel to east, central and southern Africa and on the general most people look like the paintings on the Egyptian hyroglyphs.
Especially in Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, South Africa and some parts of Congo. Black people have a range of complexiOne and depends on the region. Generally dark Africans come from west Africa .
By the time of Jesus it still seemed to be the case despite the Greek and Roman invasions bringing intermarriage as the historians of the time said :
Herodotus (484– 425 BC):
“For the fact is as I soon came to realise myself, and then heard from others later, that the Colchians are obviously Egyptian. When the notion occurred to me, I asked both the Colchians and the Egyptians about it, and found that the Colchians had better recall of the Egyptians than the Egyptians did of them. Some Egyptians said that they thought the Colchians originated with Sesostris’ army, but I myself guessed their Egyptian origin not only because the Colchians are dark-skinned and curly-haired (which does not count for much by itself , because these features are common in others too) but more importantly because Colchians, Egyptians and Ethiopians are the only peoples in the world who practise circumcision and who have always done so.”
Xenpohanes (570 – 475 BC):
”… the men of Egypt are mostly brown and black with a skinny desiccated look.”
Lucian (Roman era scholar in his work Hermotimus):
“If an Ethiopian had never seen other men, such as we are, because he had never left home, were to affirm and say, in an assembly of Ethiopians, that nowhere on earth are there white or brown men or anything else besides black men, would he appeal to their reason?”
Aristotle (384–322 BC):
“Those who are too black are cowards, this applies to the Egyptians and Ethiopians”
Aeschylus (525/524 – 456/455 BC) , Greek poet, describing the Egyptian sailing away “I notice the crew with its black members bringing out the white tunics”
Lucien the navigator, Greek writer, wrote a scene between 2 Greeks and made one of his characters describing an Egyptian:
“This boy is not only black but is also sloth with too slender legs … his hair gathered back in a braid”
Diodorus (1st century BC) Sicily, who thought that the rest of Africa was populated from Egypt, reports the testimony of other Africans:
“The Ethiopians say that the Egyptians are one of their colonies which was conducted in Egypt by Osiris “
Even during the Roman occupation, that is to say 250 years just before the Arab invasion and despite the massive and uninterrupted presence of whites in Egypt for 600 years, Ammian Marcellin, a friend of the Roman Emperor Julian says ” the men of Egypt are, for the most brown and black”. At this stage, therefore, the Egyptians were much like the West Indians.
However the argument that black people aren’t lighter brown which somehow means the Egyptians in lower Egypt weren’t black is a non stater. Just travel to east, central and southern Africa and on the general most people look like the paintings on the Egyptian hyroglyphs.
Especially in Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, South Africa and some parts of Congo. Black people have a range of complexiOne and depends on the region. Generally dark Africans come from west Africa .
By the time of Jesus it still seemed to be the case despite the Greek and Roman invasions bringing intermarriage as the historians of the time said :
Herodotus (484– 425 BC):
“For the fact is as I soon came to realise myself, and then heard from others later, that the Colchians are obviously Egyptian. When the notion occurred to me, I asked both the Colchians and the Egyptians about it, and found that the Colchians had better recall of the Egyptians than the Egyptians did of them. Some Egyptians said that they thought the Colchians originated with Sesostris’ army, but I myself guessed their Egyptian origin not only because the Colchians are dark-skinned and curly-haired (which does not count for much by itself , because these features are common in others too) but more importantly because Colchians, Egyptians and Ethiopians are the only peoples in the world who practise circumcision and who have always done so.”
Xenpohanes (570 – 475 BC):
”… the men of Egypt are mostly brown and black with a skinny desiccated look.”
Lucian (Roman era scholar in his work Hermotimus):
“If an Ethiopian had never seen other men, such as we are, because he had never left home, were to affirm and say, in an assembly of Ethiopians, that nowhere on earth are there white or brown men or anything else besides black men, would he appeal to their reason?”
Aristotle (384–322 BC):
“Those who are too black are cowards, this applies to the Egyptians and Ethiopians”
Aeschylus (525/524 – 456/455 BC) , Greek poet, describing the Egyptian sailing away “I notice the crew with its black members bringing out the white tunics”
Lucien the navigator, Greek writer, wrote a scene between 2 Greeks and made one of his characters describing an Egyptian:
“This boy is not only black but is also sloth with too slender legs … his hair gathered back in a braid”
Diodorus (1st century BC) Sicily, who thought that the rest of Africa was populated from Egypt, reports the testimony of other Africans:
“The Ethiopians say that the Egyptians are one of their colonies which was conducted in Egypt by Osiris “
Even during the Roman occupation, that is to say 250 years just before the Arab invasion and despite the massive and uninterrupted presence of whites in Egypt for 600 years, Ammian Marcellin, a friend of the Roman Emperor Julian says ” the men of Egypt are, for the most brown and black”. At this stage, therefore, the Egyptians were much like the West Indians.
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