From: ROCxolan@t-online.de   
      
   Florian Blaschke wrote:   
   > Cleopatra was most certainly NOT black. She was of Greek/Macedon descent   
   > and at best partly Egyptian. Even then, there is not a shred of evidence   
   > to suggest that the ancient Egyptians in general were significantly   
   > darker than the contemporary Egyptians, and those are not black, unless   
   > you call Arabs or Italians black. To me, those are tan, tawny or perhaps   
   > olive-skinned, at most, not even brown, clearly Caucasian, and nowhere   
   > do they look like typical Negroid Africans or even Afro-Americans, who   
   > are quite mixed.   
      
   By the way, yesterday I read about how the ancient Egyptians called   
   their southern neighbours, the Nubians, "the dark-skinned people" and   
   "the curly-haired people" in a pejorative way, which would have made   
   little sense if the Egyptians had been looking just like them, and they   
   also portrayed the Nubians as distinctly more dark-skinned and "African"   
   looking.   
      
   Anwar El Sadat, interestingly, had a Sudanese mother, and was strikingly   
   darker than other Egyptians, but still did not look fully "African".   
      
   Therefore, portraying Egyptians as black is just Afrocentrist nonsense.   
      
   Further reading:   
      
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_race_controversy   
      
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   Florian   
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