Reasons Why Black People Lived in Ancient Egypt.

 

In our generation, you still have people who believe in the utter, disrespectful, and racist lie that no black person lived in ancient Egypt. This is refuted by common sense as people migrated globally to many places of the world originally from sub-Saharan Africa. If there were black people in ancient Greece and ancient Rome (proven by history), then black people lived in ancient Egypt. This work is to refute people like Zahi Hawass who hypocritically said that no black Africans lived in ancient Egypt when we have DNA evidence that Ramses III has Haplogroup E DNA related to black people from West Africa. This doesn't mean that every ancient Egyptian was a black human being, but black people did live in ancient Egypt proven historically, genetically, and other modes of evidence. So, here are the reasons why numerous black people lived in ancient Egypt. 

1. The 25th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt was filled with Nubian Black Pharaohs who ruled ancient Egypt. These black people lived in Ancient Egypt, had children in Ancient Egypt, and ruled ancient Egypt. Many of the Nubian rulers' names are Tantamani, Taharqa (he is mentioned in the Bible), Senkamisken, Aspelta, Aniamani, and other people. The Kushite Empire controlling Nubia and ancient Egypt plus beyond was in ca. 700 B.C. The 25th Dynasty lasted from 754 B.C. to 656 B.C. The first ruler of this dynasty was the black ruler named Piye. There was always cultural diffusion among Nubia, ancient Egypt, and other places in Africa. 

2. Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses III ruled during the 12th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt from ca. March 26, 1186, B.C. to April 15, 1155, B.C. He is considered the last great king of the New Kingdom. Researchers found that his Y chromosomal haplogroup is E1b1a-V38. The haplogroup is found in Africa, especially in West Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa, the African Great Lakes, and parts of East Africa. So, this haplogroup is part of human beings who originated from Sub-Saharan Africa (as the origin of the human race are black people from Africa). In another study by the same authors in 2020, which once again deals with the paternal lineage of Ramesses III and the "Unknown Man E" (possibly Pentawer), E1b1a is said to show its highest frequencies in modern West African populations (~80%) and Central Africa (~60%).

3. Much of Egypt's religious beliefs, philosophy, traditions, kingship, architecture, musical instruments, totemism, art, and circumcision rights were undeniably African.

4. Ancient scholars record that Ancient Egypt had black people in the land and was influenced by black Ethiopian people: 

Diodorus (63BC-14AD), an ancient Greek historian, recorded the popular belief that Egypt was an Ethiopian colony:

"The Ethiopians (black people), as history relates, were the first of all men. They also say that the Egyptians are colonists sent out by the Ethiopians, Osiris having been the leader of the colony. And the larger part of the customs of the Egyptians are, they hold, Ethiopian, the colonists still preserving their ancient manners. For instance, the belief that their kings are gods, the very special attention which they pay to their burial, and many other matters of a similar nature are Ethiopian practices, while the shapes of their statues and the forms of their letters are Ethiopian." (Poe, Richard. Black Spark White Fire. Rocklin, CA: PRIMA, 1997. 352)

Even the 5000-year-old Narmer palette: Egypt's first monument, has signs that, "are essentially African," as reported by G. Mokhtar and J. Vercoutier (Ancient civilizations of Africa/ UNESCO International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa; editor, G. Mokhtar (London; Heinemann Educational Books; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981), 15).

Basil Davidson wrote, "Egypt was not born into a void; it emerged from a Neolithic womb, and this womb was African. The peasants of the Fayum Lake, those who laid the foundations of old Egyptian society, were not without their own ideas about like and the cosmos; the provenance of these ideas, or of most of them, was undoubtedly more African than Asian. "God's Land" with all it great ancestral spirits lay, for dynastic Egypt, neither in the east nor in the north, but far to the south and west. There is nothing to show that the earliest forms of ram and sun worship or of other cults made famous along the Nile did not take their rise in this obscure "God's Land" of "upper Africa." (Davidson, Basil. The Lost Cities of Africa. Boston: Little Brown, 1959, 75).

5. Modern genetic studies prove that ancient Egyptians had genetic ties to Africa and the Middle East as black people and people of color regularly traveled from Africa to the Middle East and throughout the Earth. In 2023, Christopher Ehret argued that the conclusions of the 2017 study were based on insufficiently small sample sizes and that the authors had a biased interpretation of the genetic data. Ehret also criticized the Schuenemann article for asserting that there was “no sub-Saharan genetic component” in the Egyptian population and cited previous genetic analysis suggesting that the E-M35 paternal haplogroup originated in the Horn of Africa. The tomb of two high-status Egyptians, Nakht-Ankh and Khnum-Nakht, was discovered by Egyptian workmen directed by Sir William Flinders Petrie and Ernest Mackay in 1907. Nakht-Ankh and Khnum-Nakht lived during the 12th Dynasty (1985–1773 BCE) in Middle Egypt and were aged 20 years apart. Their tomb has been called Tomb of Two Brothers because the mummies were buried adjacent to one other and inscriptions on the coffins mention the female name Khnum-Aa, who is described as 'lady of the house' and referred to as the mother of both Nakht-Ankh and Khnum-Nakht. The Y-chromosome sequences were not complete, but the Y-chromosome SNPs indicated that they had different fathers, suggesting that they were half-brothers. The SNP identities were consistent with mtDNA haplogroup M1a1 with 88.05–91.27% degree of confidence, thus "confirming the African origins of the two individuals" according to the study authors, based on their maternal lineage. Skin color varied between the peoples of Lower Egypt, Upper Egypt, and Nubia, who in various eras rose to power in Ancient Egypt. The current position of modern scholarship is that the Egyptian civilization was an indigenous Nile Valley development.

6. Ancient Egyptians in hieroglyphics and art depicted themselves not as blond-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian people, but as black people and other people of color (from light brown to darker-skinned human beings). According to Prof. Manu Ampim, many folks have intentionally broken noses and lightened the skin of many artifacts to promote the lie that only white people lived in ancient Egypt. 

7.  Dexter Caffey, an American businessman did a DNA test and discovered that he is a direct descendant of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses III, who lived in the 13th Century B.C. Scholars have proven that the Badarian civilization was influenced by the Nubians, people of the Horn of Africa, and other regions of Africa. The Badarian culture was in ancient Egypt before the Ancient Egyptian dynasties.