Wednesday, September 27, 2017

this is a picture of a tomb from the very end of the new kingdom period, which is just about the latest period of indigenous egyptian culture that existed - it was shortly after this that the sea peoples invaded and put an end to egyptian civilization as an independent entity. yes: there was a period of fundamentalism and decline before the area was conquered by the assyrians, but the bronze age collapse was really the end of egypt, as egypt.

we can clearly see that, by the end of the new kingdom, the egyptians very explicitly defined themselves neither as white nor black but as brown. they neither saw themselves as the nubians to their south nor as the semites to their east but as something in between - and they were cognizant that this something in between came from mixing.

you can't answer the question, and it doesn't make sense to ask it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Races2.jpg