Ancient Egyptians looked more like Eddie Fisher than Eddie Murphy

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American Thinker

In liberal thinking, it's very popular to rewrite history to make the pharaohs black.  I think it was all about the liberal ideal of building black self-esteem.  There were no empires or castles or advanced civilizations in sub-Saharan Africa, and liberals felt there was a gap to be filled.  Liberal pop culture emulated this theme, to the point of unintentional parody, in Michael Jackson's "Remember the Time" video, where Jackson portrayed all the Egyptians as black and Eddie Murphy as their pharaoh.

The truth was quite different.  DNA testing shows that the ancient Egyptians looked less like black people...and more like Jews.  The modern Egyptians we see in Egypt today are thought to be the descendants of slaves.
Researchers used modern genetic analysis techniques to study the genomes of 93 mummies that lived between 1300 BC – the late New Kingdom Period – and around 30 BC during the time of the Romans.

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Scientists Map The Genome Of Ancient Egyptian Kings, And They Weren’t From Africa

 

The first ever genetic analysis of mummies found that ancient Egyptian kings were more closely related to West Asians than Africans, according to a study published Tuesday by scientists at the Max Planck Institute.
The research found that ancient Egyptians were most closely related to Neolithic Levantine, Anatolian and European populations. The mummies tested did not share strong genetic links to Africa often found in modern Egyptians.
“This suggests that an increase in Sub-Saharan African gene flow into Egypt occurred within the last 1,500 years,” Wolfgang Haak, who led the research team, said in a statement.
“The genetics of the Abusir el-Meleq community did not undergo any major shifts during the 1,300 year timespan we studied, suggesting that the population remained genetically relatively unaffected by foreign conquest and rule,” Haak said.

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