How strangely appropriate.
For some reason I thought the brainsssss comment referred to the mummies (or maybe those of us who want to take them apart.)
Cleo is probably 100% ethnically Greek. King tut however is a different story, he can fit into whatever category you want depending on how you define “Black” or “White”.
Side note: We tend to change our definitions of “Black” and “White” depending on the social status of the subject(s); with high social status being considered as “white” (or lighter), and low social status being seen as “Black” (or darker).
Race-ology is not really a science.
Hmmmmmmmm… this really doesn’t fit here either? I think I mentally mashed two threads… ah well…
The red hair ties in nicely with what I’ve always understood to be the case; that the Egyptians were related to the Lybians. Definately a ‘Caucasoid’ people, though not Indo-Europeans.
Although I have no idea why this thread was ressurected or why you even brought up that particular nonsense… no, I am not.
3500 ya is nothing! Haven’t you seen Jurassic Park?
Ok, major zombie thread (appropriately), but
I thought that the fact of Ramses II or his ancestors and descendants displaying red hair means sweet fuck all, for this question at least. The family came from the Delta and was foreign IIRC.
Tutankhamun’s skin was gold-colored, end of discussion.
Hear, hear!
A good reason to revise this [del]mummy[/del] zombie thread is that DNA results were available after ralph124c’s post. Intact chromosomes are generally unavailable in ancient skeletons (are mummies an exception?), but partial reconstructions are possible via jigsaw-puzzle solving.
DNA tests on Tutankhamun’s mummy and others showed that he was the son of Mummy KV55 (believed to be Akhenaten) who was in turn the son of Amenhotep III. Tut’s mother was Mummy KV35YL, an otherwise unknown sister and wife of Akhenaten. Severe inbreeding may have contributed to Tut’ early death and the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty. (Tut was succeeded by a high official from outside the family.) However these results are disputed; they come from an Egyptian team which has not published its raw data.
There was some excitement when someone claimed (based on a screenshot in a documentary) that Tut was of the R1b Y-chromosome haplogroup, perhaps suggesting Hittite origin. But this has never been confirmed by the holders of the secret data.