Originally Posted by
Melonhead
No...that's not true at all. Egypt is much later than the mycenaen greeks, and they were not even the first greek culture. Greece had farming 7500 years ago according to latest archaeology.
Egypt is really pretty new as far as ancient civilizations go. Pyramids are about 4k years old and that is VERY new.
Megalithic period is way, way older than egypt and in many ways probably more advanced. Malta, Ireland, North Africa, France, mycenaean greece (and sunken off the coast of egypt, as well). All these places built stuff that puts the pyramids to shame in many respects, both in overall size and in the size of individual blocks.
There's signs of ancient farming by the natufians 12k years ago in modern day israel and they were probably e1b, though. But there's also sign of possible farming 14k years ago in anatolia, and 12K years ago in china. Looks more and more like Egyptian civilization actually got started in north africa right as the sahara was drying up and becoming a desert again. So I would not be sure that they were e1b originally at all (which probably originates in levant or somewhere even further into eurasia).
E1b is definitely not originally a "black" clade as it's only recently darkened up, but it's definitely not white in the sense we'd think of it, probably more "caucasoid". Of course if your ancestors lived in a black or white area long enough that's what you will end up.