hey ddv you're just stirring around the elements emphatically making an awfully lengthy show but proving nothing you can't call an ancient egyptian a black man and keep a straight face can you have you studied it at all and i mean outside of the propaganda site bibliographies egyptology is a respectable field but people like you make a circus out of it your arguments are shifty imbalanced and halting trying to prove your point for example by indicating an article as if it should be taken for sooth in an encyclopedia you openly proclaim racist not to mention published before world war i is ridiculous in the real definition of that word worthy of ridicule the same with referencing historical commentaries long removed from actual events to prove egyptians were black men when we have real egyptian records and artifacts to examine herodotus a reliable source on eighteenth dynasty egypt hello i can't say i understand the impulse egypt was a repetative place always the same sculptures always the same rituals always the same supplications always the same monuments to egos in stone its colonnades inspired later architects in greece and rome but for all its monumentality egyptian architecture wasn't worth much more than that is it because you suppose egypt was the first real civilization look up ancient sumer all the while the heart of the world is africa we evolved there as a species erectus to sapiens after that we diverged biodiversity environmental adaptation and now we're a little differently hued standing next to each other and of slightly different skeleton why should that not make us brothers