Ancient African Arts
Posted in African Art on 09/14/2011 07:13 pm by admin
Reason to doubt ancient Egyptians were black Africans?
I am left with a lingering question after taking a black history college course that insisted (both text and professor) that the ancient Egyptians were black Africans. Many plausible reasons were given for this hypothesis. I asked the professor, however, why the Egyptians depicted themselves in art as having (among other non-African features) quite elongated ears, while black Africans by nature have very small, round ears that are close to the head. He admitted he did not have an answer for this. I’d appreciate others’ thoughts on this. Thanks.
First of all Africa is Continent not a country. Africa en-bodies over 50 countries and you can literally fit 3 United States in the Continent of Africa. So I wish people would stop referring to the Continent and it array of different people from different countries as if it was such a small land and a country. Not all “Africans” look alike nor should they. But to answer the question, Egypt over billions of years was inhabited by many different tribes from neighboring countries because it was an ideal land since the Nile River flowes through it and for many other reasons. In the era in which Egypt was a great kingdom and were most of the drawings and artifacts come from the people were call mulattoes (this is the origin of this word) meaning mixed bread. The people were a completely mixed breed race of Black Africans and Arabic people.
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