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Proud Egyptian
Studies of mummies from all walks of life, from kings to beggars, show that nearly all Egyptians were the same people that we see today in Egypt.
Egyptians are NOT related to people from the rest of Africa. Egypt was normally called The Two Lands (Upper and Lower Egypt) in ancient times. But it was also called Kmt, the Black Land. Egyptologists claim that this was because the land itself was black, as opposed to the Red Land, which was the desert. Instead of the Black Land, the Afrocentrists call Egypt the Land of the Blacks, which would seem to be somewhat inaccurate liguistically. And Egypt was ruled by black Nubians for a relatively short period of time, as well.
Cavalli-Sforza et al. (1994) compared populations from throughout the world using extensive genetic data. The North African populations grouped with West Eurasian (European, Middle East) populations rather than sub-Saharan Africans. * Scientists at the University of Cairo tested DNA from the remains of pyramid workers from 2600 BC, and found that the DNA of ancient Egyptians matches that of modern Egyptians. That is, the people living in Egypt now are essentially the same as the people living there thousands of years ago. (Read an excerpt from PBS's Secrets of the Pharaohs) * Borgognini-Tarli and G. Paoli, 1982. The ABO blood type frequencies of ancient Egyptians showed no signs of differing significantly from that of present-day Egyptians. According to the authors, "the blood-group distribution obtained for Asiut, Gebelen and Aswan necropoles shows resemblances with the present leucoderm population of Egypt and particularly with its more 'conservative' fraction (the Copts, MOURANT et al., 1976)."
Age
32
Hometown
Heerenveen
Country
Netherlands
