Who were the Ancient Egyptians?

[Thraex]

Lol. These things can only happen in America. I'm sure Egyptians don't claim about Tut's blackness.

Even if there was some black admixture, ancient Egyptians were mostly non-European Caucasoids, just like -oh surprise- they are today.

I'm pretty sure ancient Egyptians never looked like Arabs because that's what modern Egyptians are.

[Sikeliot]

I'm pretty sure ancient Egyptians never looked like Arabs because that's what modern Egyptians are.

That woman doesn't even look Arab.. she's half British.

[HungAryan]

I'm pretty sure ancient Egyptians never looked like Arabs because that's what modern Egyptians are.

I doubt that Modern Egyptians are Arabs.
The Medieval Arabs were always a minority among the peoples they conquered: Levanites, Berbers, Egyptians, Persians. Genetically, less than 10% of Modern Egyptians have ancestry that originates in the Arabian peninsula.
Even today, you can clearly distinguish Levanites (Palestinians and Lebanese) and Berbers from Saudis and Yemenis.

[Husaria]

Lebanese people look far more European than the ancient Egyptians' hieroglyphics portray the Egyptians as having looked.

Lebanese today



Ancient Egyptians






Pretty close

[gold_fenix]

I heard that that the descend of egyptians are the coptos, original lebanese were phoenicians

[Comte Arnau]

I'm pretty sure ancient Egyptians never looked like Arabs because that's what modern Egyptians are.

If you think a typical Egyptian looks like a typical Arab, you've never seen a typical Egyptian nor a typical Arab. Period.

This said, you're right in one thing. There's some Arab admixture in present Egypt that did not exist in Egypt -logically- before the Arab expansion.

[Ibericus]

I doubt that Modern Egyptians are Arabs.
The Medieval Arabs were always a minority among the peoples they conquered: Levanites, Berbers, Egyptians, Persians. Genetically, less than 10% of Modern Egyptians have ancestry that originates in the Arabian peninsula.
Even today, you can clearly distinguish Levanites (Palestinians and Lebanese) and Berbers from Saudis and Yemenis.

well, Egyptians at Dodecad have like 33% Arabian.

[Thraex]

That woman doesn't even look Arab.. she's half British.

Her father is Egyptian and her name is thoroughly Arabic.

I doubt that Modern Egyptians are Arabs.
The Medieval Arabs were always a minority among the peoples they conquered: Levanites, Berbers, Egyptians, Persians. Genetically, less than 10% of Modern Egyptians have ancestry that originates in the Arabian peninsula.
Even today, you can clearly distinguish Levanites (Palestinians and Lebanese) and Berbers from Saudis and Yemenis.

No, that's just not true. Egypt back then was sparsely populated unlike today's Egypt. Egypt had only 3 million people living in it at the time of Napoleon's conquest of Egypt.

[HungAryan]

No, that's just not true. Egypt back then was sparsely populated unlike today's Egypt. Egypt had only 3 million people living in it at the time of Napoleon's conquest of Egypt.

Still, it has been scientifically proven that only 10 out of 100 Egyptians have ancestry that can/could be traced back to the Arabian Peninsula.
And I'm not talking about people tracing back their ancestry by family trees.
I'm talking about genes, genetics, DNA.
Only 10 out of 100 Egyptians have genetic kinship with the populations of the Arabian Peninsula.

[European blood]

LONDON Aug 1 (Reuters Life!) - Up to 70 percent of British men and half of all Western European men are related to the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, geneticists in Switzerland said.

Scientists at Zurich-based DNA genealogy centre, iGENEA, reconstructed the DNA profile of the boy Pharaoh, who ascended the throne at the age of nine, his father Akhenaten and grandfather Amenhotep III, based on a film that was made for the Discovery Channel.

The results showed that King Tut belonged to a genetic profile group, known as haplogroup R1b1a2, to which more than 50 percent of all men in Western Europe belong, indicating that they share a common ancestor.

Among modern-day Egyptians this haplogroup contingent is below 1 percent, according to iGENEA.

"It was very interesting to discover that he belonged to a genetic group in Europe -- there were many possible groups in Egypt that the DNA could have belonged to," said Roman Scholz, director of the iGENEA Centre.

Around 70 percent of Spanish and 60 percent of French men also belong to the genetic group of the Pharaoh who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago.

"We think the common ancestor lived in the Caucasus about 9,500 years ago," Scholz told Reuters.

It is estimated that the earliest migration of haplogroup R1b1a2 into Europe began with the spread of agriculture in 7,000 BC, according to iGENEA.

However, the geneticists were not sure how Tutankhamun's paternal lineage came to Egypt from its region of origin.

The centre is now using DNA testing to search for the closest living relatives of "King Tut".

"The offer has only been publicised for three days but we have already seen a lot of interest," Scholz told Reuters.

http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptN...nnel=0&sp=true