What did the ancient Egyptians really look like?

[L.o.l.i.t.a]

Certainly their culture was incredible regardless of anything. But the question of the phenotype seems quite complicated. I have seen some studies by the Max Planck institute claiming that they were genetically close to other peoples of western Asia, but in the representations of the Egyptians about themselves they are always very dark, thick lips are frequent and many seem to have some SSA mixture

[chinshen]

Forget studies, trust what the ancient Egyptian representations that they left behind.

[Hamilcar]

They were simply similar to modern egyptians who themselves are already close to west asians. Also Egyptian art followed conventional and idealistic canons, they were not necessarily representative.

Meanwhile the difference between them and their nubian neighbours was quite striking :

[Ion Basescul]

[Petalpusher]

Certainly their culture was incredible regardless of anything. But the question of the phenotype seems quite complicated. I have seen some studies by the Max Planck institute claiming that they were genetically close to other peoples of western Asia, but in the representations of the Egyptians about themselves they are always very dark, thick lips are frequent and many seem to have some SSA mixture

The study you are talking about sampled some elite mummies, they were indeed different compared to modern Egyptians. More are to come this year, but that doesn't imply all the population was like them at this point, it's unlikely. The mummies on the other hand resembled autosomally people from the Levant Bronze Age.




https://www.researchgate.net/publica...-Roman_periods

[Hamilcar]

The study you are talking about sampled some elite mummies, they were indeed different compared to modern Egyptians. More are to come this year, but that doesn't imply all the population was like them at this point, it's unlikely. The mommies on the other hand resembled autosomally people from the Levant Bronze Age.



https://www.researchgate.net/publica...-Roman_periods

How many times should I repeat ? You can't draw any conclusion simply based on 3 mummies from middle egypt and these three mummies were still similar to modern egyptians (no big difference). They also had ssa (even thought a bit less).

[gixajo]

They were simply similar to modern egyptians who themselves are already close to west asians. Also Egyptian art followed conventional and idealistic canons, they were not necessarily representative.

Meanwhile the difference between them and their nubian neighbours was quite striking :

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Basically I agree with that.

Maybe some small variation, because it is a very shaken historically area, but not much different from what it is today.

[Tutankhamun]

Just like Egyptians today.

Those who think otherwise are black pseudohistoric we wuz kangz.

[JamesBond007]

The study you are talking about sampled some elite mummies, they were indeed different compared to modern Egyptians. More are to come this year, but that doesn't imply all the population was like them at this point, it's unlikely. The mummies on the other hand resembled autosomally people from the Levant Bronze Age.




https://www.researchgate.net/publica...-Roman_periods

Only the elite matter as Karl Marx had stated the workers of the world have no country. Anyway, Egyptians were genetically close to Copts or something.

They were not niggers or nordics much to the chagrin of nordicists and afrocentrists.

[Asten]

They were Mediterranean like every major civilization. Mesopotamia, Greek, Byzantine with olive skin and brown eyes. Some Pharaohs were black or mixed race, but clearly not the majority, I don't think sub Saharan population could be the pillar of the modern society from what I have seen on their capacity at my school