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I haven't seen any credible evidence that the Bantu people have significant levels of Eurasian DNA. In fact quite the opposite. The genetic evidence in the thread you linked are from sources that have mixed reputations and more importantly, agendas. Rather, most evidence I see suggests that Eurasians have significant black African DNA, but not the other way around. Black Africans have almost no Eurasian DNA. Some Somali populations, some Ethiopian populations, Northern Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, all "sub-Saharan", but not "black African". I'll try and find some of the stuff I've read that makes me of the opinion that I am.
Spider879
reply to post by LUXUS
Aaaaah there is no such thing as a people called Colchians today,and Spider did not make up the quote that the Colchians were Black Herodotus and others did.. the others being.St Jerome and Sepheronius.
Galvatron
reply to post by Spider879
Spider879,
I really enjoy reading your posts. You have made some points that I can't refute. However, whenever I read your posts, I only hear Huey Freeman's voice. That aside, it seems to me that there is a lot of conflicting evidence as to the racial demographics of Ancient Egypt. Being American born to Welsh parents, I have no real stake in the matter. I just think the evidence is really more weighted towards the demographic changes that I've mentioned.
Also, that mummy you have pictured in your last post is of Maiherpri, a Nubian royal. Nubians are depicted by Egyptians as being very dark.
The statue of the man who looks like he should be holding a shield and a spear: Nubians were famous as mercenaries that Ancient Egypt hired to bolster the ranks of their military. Many of which were given Egyptian style burials.
The painted bust is of Queen Tiye of Amenhotep III, who was a New Kingdom Pharaoh. In other words, relatively late in ancient Egypt history, and therefore falls in line with my argument that their demographics started out rather Semitic and over time became more or less black African, then Semitic again.
I have little doubt at the moment that ancient Egypt had black African pharaohs. But they all seem to be later in their history. The same goes for Greek accounts of Egyptians. That was very late in their history.
Spider879
Btw on a sports note Japan beat Ghana 3-1 last nite.
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Oh these Afrocentrists always demanding a rewrite of history. AE, slave trading, the myriad of black "inventions". So many activities.
Baddguy
reply to post by SexNinja
If the information is not being suppressed, then why isn't it common knowledge? There are many who truly believe that Ancient Egyptians were not black at all..Go to Google and type " Were Egyp..." and the first ting that will pop up is "Where Egpytians black" Its like i said, if a black person discusses the information he is being "Afrocentric" and trying to rewrite history but if white, it is history.
Baddguy
reply to post by SexNinja
i get what you mean but he not behaving like an Black Hebrew Israelite... Spider879 presented some good and thought provoking facts throughout this thread that are not commonly known around the world or taught in schools. The info he provided was more than likely researched by a European scholar so its not just "Afrocentric" blacks, and he also provided sources to 'white' scholars supporting his claims.
If the information is not being suppressed, then why isn't it common knowledge? There are many who truly believe that Ancient Egyptians were not black at all..Go to Google and type " Were Egyp..." and the first ting that will pop up is "Where Egpytians black" Its like i said, if a black person discusses the information he is being "Afrocentric" and trying to rewrite history but if white, it is history.
First off something isn't being suppressed because its not common knowledge.
Baddguy
..Go to Google and type " Were Egyp..." and the first ting that will pop up is "Where Egpytians black"
104.
For it is plain to see that the Colchians are Egyptians; and what I say, I myself noted before I heard it from others. When it occurred to me, I inquired of both peoples; and the Colchians remembered the Egyptians better than the Egyptians remembered the Colchians; [2] the Egyptians said that they considered the Colchians part of Sesostris' army. I myself guessed it, partly because they are dark-skinned and woolly-haired; though that indeed counts for nothing, since other peoples are, too; but my better proof was that the Colchians and Egyptians and Ethiopians are the only nations that have from the first practised circumcision. [3] The Phoenicians and the Syrians of Palestine acknowledge that they learned the custom from the Egyptians, and the Syrians of the valleys of the Thermodon and the Parthenius, as well as their neighbors the Macrones, say that they learned it lately from the Colchians. These are the only nations that circumcise, and it is seen that they do just as the Egyptians. [4] But as to the Egyptians and Ethiopians themselves, I cannot say which nation learned it from the other; for it is evidently a very ancient custom. That the others learned it through traffic with Egypt, I consider clearly proved by this: that Phoenicians who traffic with Hellas cease to imitate the Egyptians in this matter and do not circumcise their children.
Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.