What did the Ancient Egyptians look like?

[Borderlands of Rojava]

Idk she's kinda cute. Not as fuck ugly as some said.

Attractiveness is way more than just physical beauty. She was probably very attractive: expressive eyes, luscious smile, sparkling wit, and the like...

Plot twist: She drooled at the mouth and her most common phrase was "I can't see my forehead." Her dad once said "damn, I kinda fucked up making kids with my own sister."

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Do you think the casting is fine?

Completely fine. There were probably a million Egyptian women who looked like Gal Gadot.

For christ's sake I live in an area with a coptic church right down the street. Those folks are the descendants of the ancient Egyptians and they don't look any different from other Middle Eastern people. They aren't black if thats one some think.

I mean, just for being Levantine I think she’s fine for the role. At least they didn’t go for a white actress and chose to cast someone from the same side of the world.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

Cleopatra was a Greek-Egyptian from a very...Erm..."Well insulated" family.

She wasn't black if that's what people are angry about. Although certainly plenty of Egyptians were black and all sorts of colors if Egyptian art is anything to go by.

While I agree with you, there’s a significant change she was part Nubian. Though all Afro-centrists beware, because this almost certainly would barely affect her phenotype at all.

Why?

[Trollzyn the Infinite]

The Ancient Egyptians live on in their direct descendants: the Copts. If you want to know what they probably looked like, look no further than Coptic people.

[UniversalCommons]

Marble statuary doesn't show skin tone unless it is painted.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

Completely fine. There were probably a million Egyptian women who looked like Gal Gadot.

For christ's sake I live in an area with a coptic church right down the street. Those folks are the descendants of the ancient Egyptians and they don't look any different from other Middle Eastern people. They aren't black if thats one some think.

I mean, just for being Levantine I think she’s fine for the role. At least they didn’t go for a white actress and chose to cast someone from the same side of the world.

They should have had Salma Hayek play her. Change my mind

[Insaanistan]

I’d say your average Berber would be best. Or, ya know, an Egyptian.

Tunisians are mainly of berber heritage (according to recent studies 88% of their genes are native to North africa).

Just some examples of what tunisians look like:

https://theconversation.com/amp/why-tun ... tion-90163

https://thearabweekly.com/tunisia-eases ... irus-cases

https://images.app.goo.gl/eZ1geigUF48k7SRQ8

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/opin ... t.amp.html

Idk man. I can't tell them apart from Greeks or Italians

By average Berber, I meant of the whole Berber population.
But indeed, most Tunisians and many Algerians and Moroccans look Italian. One of the reasons why they seem to get angry when I say Berbers are brown or talk about how Hausa people are related to Amazigh.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

The Ancient Egyptians live on in their direct descendants: the Copts. If you want to know what they probably looked like, look no further than Coptic people.

I remember when they appeared in my town. They turned up around our way and set up a church in the abandoned elementary school and every weekend you can see them down there, with the priest in his big hat and robe.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

I mean, just for being Levantine I think she’s fine for the role. At least they didn’t go for a white actress and chose to cast someone from the same side of the world.

They should have had Salma Hayek play her. Change my mind

Salma? Really? I mean Salma is gorgeous and a good actress but casting a Latina for that role would have probably got more people up in arms.

[Insaanistan]

While I agree with you, there’s a significant change she was part Nubian. Though all Afro-centrists beware, because this almost certainly would barely affect her phenotype at all.

Why?

It would have been AT MOST one eighth or one twelfth, and it would likely not show up much in comparison to Coptic and Greek phenotypes.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

Tunisians are mainly of berber heritage (according to recent studies 88% of their genes are native to North africa).

Just some examples of what tunisians look like:

https://theconversation.com/amp/why-tun ... tion-90163

https://thearabweekly.com/tunisia-eases ... irus-cases

https://images.app.goo.gl/eZ1geigUF48k7SRQ8

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/opin ... t.amp.html

Idk man. I can't tell them apart from Greeks or Italians

By average Berber, I meant of the whole Berber population.
But indeed, most Tunisians and many Algerians and Moroccans look Italian. One of the reasons why they seem to get angry when I say Berbers are brown or talk about how Hausa people are related to Amazigh.

Brown is a diverse color though. Both Javier Bardem and Barack Obama have brown colored skin but it isnt the same shade.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

They should have had Salma Hayek play her. Change my mind

Salma? Really? I mean Salma is gorgeous and a good actress but casting a Latina for that role would have probably got more people up in arms.

She's Lebanese in descent.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Salma? Really? I mean Salma is gorgeous and a good actress but casting a Latina for that role would have probably got more people up in arms.

She's Lebanese in descent.

Hmm. Don’t know.

[Insaanistan]

While Salma does look closer to what Cleopatra would have then Gabot, Nanatsu is right: casting a half Latina might just make things worse.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

She's Lebanese in descent.

Hmm. Don’t know.

No worse than Gal playing her.

Shit, maybe they should have called the bluff of the Afrocentrists and had a Greek actress play her. And then make em look dumb when they say "thats not representative of cleopatra."

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

While Salma does look closer to what Cleopatra would have then Gabot, Nanatsu is right: casting a half Latina might just make things worse.

Pssst, just Nana.

[Insaanistan]

While Salma does look closer to what Cleopatra would have then Gabot, Nanatsu is right: casting a half Latina might just make things worse.

Pssst, just Nana.

Nana? Alright.

[Insaanistan]

Though I don’t agree with Afrocentrists, I understand why they exist and why they act the way they do.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

If you really wanna curveball everyone, have Lexy Liu play cleopatra. Watch the confusion as everyone tries to make sense of this madness.

[Trollzyn the Infinite]

The Ancient Egyptians live on in their direct descendants: the Copts. If you want to know what they probably looked like, look no further than Coptic people.

I remember when they appeared in my town. They turned up around our way and set up a church in the abandoned elementary school and every weekend you can see them down there, with the priest in his big hat and robe.

Copts have a cool culture. Shame most think the Ancient Egyptians either went extinct or were absorbed into the Arab conquerors.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Pssst, just Nana.

Nana? Alright.

Aye.

Anyway, regardless of heritage, and acting chops, Hayek being cast for the role would cause some to probably vehemently object. As it is, at least the choice is in and around the right groups of people.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

Though I don’t agree with Afrocentrists, I understand why they exist and why they act the way they do.

They're just ridiculous though. They ignore all the civilizations of africa whose members were the actual ancestors of many African Americans and instead go "nah Egypt is ours for the taking."

[Borderlands of Rojava]

I remember when they appeared in my town. They turned up around our way and set up a church in the abandoned elementary school and every weekend you can see them down there, with the priest in his big hat and robe.

Copts have a cool culture. Shame most think the Ancient Egyptians either went extinct or were absorbed into the Arab conquerors.

I assumed the ancient Egyptians went extinct till I had this Egyptian girl for a classmate in grade 9. She was coptic and just off the boat but was fluent in English and she told me "the copts are the descendants of the pharoahs."

Well probably not the Ptomlemy's since they all died, but it sounds cool nonetheless.

[The Marlborough]

There aren't really that many famous Greek actresses that I can think of off the top of my head, so Gal Gadot is the next best thing given ancestry (if we are mandating this matters) and name recognition. If Shakira was an actress, maybe her. A young Monica Bellucci would have also been ace.

[Luziyca]

Probably depends on their station in life, and where they lived.