AboutFrancesco Marchesani Expertise I have an indeep knowledge of European history, expecially Ancient, Roman and Medieval history. I focus my attention on military history as well; I have access to a university library with many ancient books.
Experience Mainly through self study (other than my university studies in laws) I have acquired a good knowledge of the topic, which I enjoy further study.
Question What was the race of the Ancient Egyptians in the early dynasties? I've heard that they were originally White and then they mixed with Black and Asian foreigners.
Answer Hello,
actually applying modern notions of race (white, black, asian) to ancient Egypt is anachronistic, and about skin colour, the ancient Egyptians were neither black nor white: they had a fair/olive skin color as opposed to the typical black of sub-saharian africans, but they were not white as we defined it today (i.e. European/Caucasian).
Moreover, the "Asian" foreigners we talk about are not today's asian in the common understand of the term (i.e. people of Chinese, Japanese etc. origin), but they were Semitic populations from the Middle East with racial features similar to today's Israelis and Arabs.
