The Myth of Red Haired Mummies

Varying from corpse to corpse, and of course royal mummies had stronger salts and longer, greater care taken into the process of mummification. The mummy I showed with the nappy hair she wasen't royalty so the salt did not change the texture and color of her hair. There has been evidence of cortex keratin oxidation in ancient Egyptian hair presumed to be the result of the strong alkaline ontent in natron used.

The Hair of Earlier Peoples, Don Brothwell and Richard Spearman p427-436 in
Science in Archaeology, eds. D Brothwell and E Higgs 1963

Hair is largely made up of the fibrous protein keratin. This substance is
extremely resistant to decomposition and enzymatic digestion, mainly owing to
the presence of disulphide cross linkages of the amino acid cystine. These join
together the long polypeptide chains of the molecule. If the crosslinkages are
broken by reduction or oxidation, altered keratin is readily attacked by
proteolytic enzymes. This resistance of keratin explains durability of hair in
ancient burials...These changes can occur on the living animal; thus atmospheric
weathering of the fleece of sheep results in loss of cystine from the exposed
tips of the fibres. Permanent waving alters keratin cross linkages, and these
changes have been detected using florescence microscopy. It is probable that if
the preparations employed during mummification contained reducing or oxidizing
agents or alkaline substances the hair keratin would be damaged...
Normal human hair had a bluish-green florescence with acridine orange but
permanently waved hair had a reddish florescence with associated fractures of
the fibres...Hair bleached with hydrogen peroxide also showed this change due to
oxidation of the keratin... in some samples such as predynastic Egyptian hair
the whole hair was altered in this way.


Potential change to hair color can be explained more scientifically by examining the chemistry of melanin which is responsible for hair color in life. All hair contains a mixture in varying concentration of both black-brown eumelanin and red-yellow phaeomelanin pigments, which are susceptible to differential chemical change under certain extreme burial conditions (for example wet reducing conditions, or dry oxidising conditions). Importantly, phaeomelanin is much more stable to environmental conditions than eumelanin, hence the reactions occurring in the burial environment favor the preservation of phaeomelanin, revealing and enhancing the red/ yellow color of hairs containing this pigment

Potential change to hair color can be explained more scientifically by examining the chemistry of melanin which is responsible for hair color in life. All hair contains a mixture in varying concentration of both black-brown eumelanin and red-yellow phaeomelanin pigments, which are susceptible to differential chemical change under certain extreme burial conditions (for example wet reducing conditions, or dry oxidising conditions). Importantly, phaeomelanin is much more stable to environmental conditions than eumelanin, hence the reactions occurring in the burial environment favor the preservation of phaeomelanin, revealing and enhancing the red/ yellow color of hairs containing this pigment.


http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/hierakonpolis/field/hair.html
http://www.endingstereotypesforamerica.org/
http://mali.pwnet.org/history/history_mali_empire.htm

Examining hair with a sensitive chemical technique called Fourier
transform Raman spectroscopy, Wilson discovered that

***the strong bonds in the keratin --- the protein that makes up the
hair --- were often weakened.***

'This increased porosity raises the possibility of contamination,'
he says. The team found hair that had been invaded by threads of
fungus and in one case with iron salts from an iron coffin.
UNQUOTE

These chemicals only "straigtened" the hair, ("weakening of keratin bonds"-is used in African American hair relaxers)

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[EducatedRebellion101]

The DNA tests have proven that many of the mummies have Caucasian genetics, plain and simple. Your bullshit lunacy of trying to cover this up is appaling to the education process. Artwork shows Tut riding a horse chariot and TRAMPLING African Nubians underneath it. Then Tut's throne shows African Nubians with their hands BOUND behind their back, this was at the bottom of the throne, so when Tut sat down he would metaphorically "trample" his bound African Nubians enemies underfoot.

[Flair25Y]

OK let me throw this at you, there is evidence to support that there was both Black and White people there, however the latest evidence as of just a few months ago show's that King Tut's DNA that he is White, what does this mean, well it means that the White people were the one's with the Brains and were in Charge, sort of like it is Today.

God Bless.

[DcTrini]

@EducatedRebellion101 First, google "King Tut Related to Half of European Men? Maybe Not". Then go look at the art piece "The Hunting Box" which was found in King Tut''s tomb that you are talking about because in that art piece most of the Nubians are depicted as being the same red color as King Tut in addition to the one's that were depicted as being jet black. King Tut is also depicted trampling all white asiatics on "The Hunting Box", image search "King Tutankhamun in battle".

[DcTrini]

@Flair25Y Actually no. The people that released that study were not the people working on King Tut's DNA. Google "King Tut Related to Half of European Men? Maybe Not". "But Carsten Pusch, a geneticist at Germany's University of Tubingen who was part of the team that unraveled Tut's DNA from samples taken from his mummy and mummies of his family members, said that iGENEA's claims are "simply impossible."

[VendPrekmurec]

Afro Semiti - Neanderthal occult "science"

[jellyjigglerman]

@Flair25Y That's only part of his DNA.

[TheEvilOyo2]

@PhineasPriest83 york raped children

[Puck2442]

Damn you niggers are desperate to latch onto someone else's history. Anyone's in fact, if it allows you to pretend your ancestors did more than build mud huts and eat monkey meat sandwiches.

Pathetic

[luminarification]

you didn't even show the real red and blond mummies

[90rashad]

@7troding they use certain clays to dye their hair. most of it changed due to mummification.

[90rashad]

@EducatedRebellion101 they was not caucasian. they was african

[90rashad]

@amazigh6 berbers are not white