What did the Ancient Egyptians look like?

[The Marlborough]

Greeks come in a variety of skin tones just like everyone else.

I guess

I mean, you'll still find blonde and fair skinned Greeks. Just like how you'll find swarthy northern Europeans. Hell, look at Catherine Zeta-Jones; everyone thinks she's Spanish or Mexican but she's from fookin' Swansea.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

They obviously didn't look like humans with the head of a dog. Seriously, you expect me to believe that a guy like this was walking around the pyramids?

The therapist: The jackal headed man is not real and he can't harm you.

The Jackal headed man:

[New haven america]

Nicole Kidman when she was younger.

Cleopatra was a blond haired, blue eyed, Greek women. No, seriously.

I don’t know, I’d suggest Nia Vardalos. Although I’m ok with Gadot’s casting.

But the problem with this is that she was blond, but she wore a wig a lot of the time like most Egyptians did.

Why this is a feature of note is that that was actually a super rare trait for most Greeks at the time.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

They obviously didn't look like humans with the head of a dog. Seriously, you expect me to believe that a guy like this was walking around the pyramids?

The therapist: The jackal headed man is not real and he can't harm you.

The Jackal headed man:

Anubis?

[Borderlands of Rojava]

The therapist: The jackal headed man is not real and he can't harm you.

The Jackal headed man:

Anubis?

The Jackal Headed man

[New haven america]

The therapist: The jackal headed man is not real and he can't harm you.

The Jackal headed man:

Anubis?

I think they mean this Anubis.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Anubis?

The Jackal Headed man

The Jackal was the representation of Anubis in ancient Egypt. Jackal headed men, I interpreted that as Anubis guards.

[Insaanistan]

Yea I saw this nonsense. I remember awhile ago they tried to declare King Tut was a black Pharaoh even though there was ancient artwork showing a tanish Tut fighting black Nubmians. Questioning the claim got you labeled as racist.

Cleopatra was the descendent of one of Alexanders generals. You could argue for a tanish greek looking woman.

There is this simplistic mentality that only actors from a particular people can play people from the past.

Well, Tut Ankh Amen was different. He definitely was part black. Completely black? No. But very significant African ancestry? Yes.

[Neanderthaland]

Let's ask the Ancient Egyptians what an Ancient Egyptian woman looks like:

Yeah, I think Gal will do okay.

[The Marlborough]

Why don't we just get Rick O'Connell to bring her back to life for her to pick?

[Torisakia]

Anubis?

The Jackal Headed man

Regardless of what it's actually called, I refuse to believe that the Egyptians looked like that.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

The Jackal Headed man

Regardless of what it's actually called, I refuse to believe that the Egyptians looked like that.

Maybe they did and things were really crazy and fucked up in Ancient Egypt.

[Debate Proxy 1]

Because of ethnic history, not actual surface details.

Most white people look the same, but if you told a French guy and a Russian guy that they looked basically the same you'd never hear the end of it.

That ringing you hear in the background is the residual sound of an Irish man screaming forever after being told "you're a really handsome guy. Are you British?"

Actually a really good point can be drawn out of this...

A part of human psychology is to try and draw clear lines of recognition based on allegiances. It could come in the form of flags, assumed skin-color groups (Germans didn't used to be considered "white", but "swarthy"), even languages (Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian).

For instance, I have a strong preference for American English and think it more reformed; others feel differently, and we tend to draw lines based on that. I wonder if something similar is going on in trying to define Greeks as "white" or "Mediterranean" like with the Germans.

[Salus Maior]

Let's ask the Ancient Egyptians what an Ancient Egyptian woman looks like:

(Image)

Yeah, I think Gal will do okay.

Well, technically Cleopatra wasn't ancient Egyptian.

This is the classical era

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Let's ask the Ancient Egyptians what an Ancient Egyptian woman looks like:

(Image)

Yeah, I think Gal will do okay.

Still an epitome of beauty.

[Neanderthaland]

Let's ask the Ancient Egyptians what an Ancient Egyptian woman looks like:

(Image)

Yeah, I think Gal will do okay.

Well, technically Cleopatra wasn't ancient Egyptian.

This is the classical era

You don't say? How could I have guessed that a Ptolemy wasn't Ancient Egyptian?

[Borderlands of Rojava]

That ringing you hear in the background is the residual sound of an Irish man screaming forever after being told "you're a really handsome guy. Are you British?"

Actually a really good point can be drawn out of this...

A part of human psychology is to try and draw clear lines of recognition based on allegiances. It could come in the form of flags, assumed skin-color groups (Germans didn't used to be considered "white", but "swarthy"), even languages (Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian).

For instance, I have a strong preference for American English and think it more reformed; others feel differently, and we tend to draw lines based on that. I wonder if something similar is going on in trying to define Greeks as "white" or "Mediterranean" like with the Germans.

I myself don't define race. To me ethnicity is real but not race. I feel very uncomfortable calling a Sicilian man with brown skin white and an Arab woman with ivory skin brown. And it's weird calling T.I. black when he's actually like peanut butter colored.

[Greed and Death]

They were tan, olive, Mediterranean. Their own hieroglyphs suggest this. Nubians were depicted as black, and Greeks as white.

Strange how they depicted the Greeks tbh. The Greeks themselves aren't exactly pale, aside from this one guy I know but he's half German and Scottish.

That is an interesting part of the problem with ancient paintings.
If someone or a group of people is darker than you then said they were black. Likewise if they were fairer you said they were white.

Along comes a painter who has never seen the people in question and guess what shade gets pulled out ?

A roman painter who has never seen a Sicilian might paint him as coal black and a Eygtian painter who ahs never seen a Greek might paint them as snow white.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

Strange how they depicted the Greeks tbh. The Greeks themselves aren't exactly pale, aside from this one guy I know but he's half German and Scottish.

That is an interesting part of the problem with ancient paintings.
If someone or a group of people is darker than you then said they were black. Likewise if they were fairer you said they were white.

Along comes a painter who has never seen the people in question and guess what shade gets pulled out ?

A roman painter who has never seen a Sicilian might paint him as coal black and a Eygtian painter who ahs never seen a Greek might paint them as snow white.

Tuscan painters trying to paint Sicilian mafiosos fighting African immigrants: "My paintbrushes have failed me."

[Greed and Death]

That is an interesting part of the problem with ancient paintings.
If someone or a group of people is darker than you then said they were black. Likewise if they were fairer you said they were white.

Along comes a painter who has never seen the people in question and guess what shade gets pulled out ?

A roman painter who has never seen a Sicilian might paint him as coal black and a Eygtian painter who ahs never seen a Greek might paint them as snow white.

Tuscan painters trying to paint Sicilian mafiosos fighting African immigrants: "My paintbrushes have failed me."

Interesting Libyans were painted as fairly light.

[Neanderthaland]

Ehhh... a lot of them look Sudanese.

Yes, and most Sudanese look like modern day Ethiopians.

I'm not sure what "looking like an Ethiopian" even means, since Ethiopians are some of the most diverse looking people in the world.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

Yes, and most Sudanese look like modern day Ethiopians.

I'm not sure what "looking like an Ethiopian" even means, since Ethiopians are some of the most diverse looking people in the world.

Looks Amhara

[Debate Proxy 1]

Actually a really good point can be drawn out of this...

A part of human psychology is to try and draw clear lines of recognition based on allegiances. It could come in the form of flags, assumed skin-color groups (Germans didn't used to be considered "white", but "swarthy"), even languages (Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian).

For instance, I have a strong preference for American English and think it more reformed; others feel differently, and we tend to draw lines based on that. I wonder if something similar is going on in trying to define Greeks as "white" or "Mediterranean" like with the Germans.

I myself don't define race. To me ethnicity is real but not race. I feel very uncomfortable calling a Sicilian man with brown skin white and an Arab woman with ivory skin brown. And it's weird calling T.I. black when he's actually like peanut butter colored.

Ethnicity is more a nationalism thing, I guess, arguably more reasonable and rooted in reality. Like here, you have black nationalists, and they obviously dress (ethnically) different than, say, John James, a black man of my ethnicity/sharing my values. I tend to think of Liberians as being of my same Yankee heritage (thus the choice of flag on my profile). Ethnicity's pretty real to me, but I don't see why people of different ethnicities also can't live in peace if government is truly based on the will of the people.

Sadly, we have a lot of problems where people just won't leave other people alone. Thus all this ethnic/values conflict we see today.

[Neanderthaland]

I'm not sure what "looking like an Ethiopian" even means, since Ethiopians are some of the most diverse looking people in the world.

Looks Amhara

Even within Amharic people. I know there is a certain Amharic "look," but I've also met a bunch of Amharas who didn't look like that.

[Sarderia]

Tuscan painters trying to paint Sicilian mafiosos fighting African immigrants: "My paintbrushes have failed me."

Interesting Libyans were painted as fairly light.

I think they are indeed lighter-skinned than the Egyptians, perhaps the same tone as they depicted Asians (Levantines, the Hyksos who ruled Egypt before the New Kingdom period). Nowadays, even after centuries of interbreeding and gene mixing, Southern Europeans from Sicily and Northern Africans from Tunisia for example looks similar enough. The Ancient Egyptian skin tone is a rather tan hue, similar to what you would classify as Brown (think Hindi/Punjabi Indians, Central Americans, SE Asians e.g. Malay, Indonesian, etc.) They are certainly not black Africans (those are Nubians; they did ruled Egypt, I forgot which dynasty, but only in a short time period before being overthrown by a native lord), and they obviously weren't white to the degree of Greeks/Southern Italians either. Egyptians are their own, extremely unique and fascinating group of people.