grahamguitarman
Sage
Erm, lets not get carried away here, the Egyptians were an amazing culture, but they never even got close to ruling the world. Even at their height their political control was mostly confined to what we now think of as the Arabic countries.In the time when the Egyptians ruled the earth,
Although the Egyptians were definitely dark skinned, they were not actually black, we know this by looking at pictures where black skinned people were shown alongside the red-brown Egyptian peoples. Their culture was closely linked with the Black skinned Nubians to the south, but they were still a separate and unique race to themselves. They were not Semitic, they were not Black, or white, they were brown skinned Egyptians. I think it is just as bad to try to portray the Egyptians as black skinned Africans as it is to try and make them more Eurasian or Semitic, none of those descriptions are accurate or true.
Personally, I think we should keep race politics out of it and concentrate on admiring the Egyptians for the amazing culture they were, instead of trying to hijack them for our own cultural and political purposes.