There seems to be some strong denial on the part of Whites and even some Westernized modern Egyptians that the early ancient Egyptian came from and looked no different than the black Africans in the areas south of Egypt (like Somalis and Ethiopians). The consensus in mainstream academia confirms that the migrations of people that lead to the creation of ancient Egypt were Afro-Asiatic speakers of Sub Saharan East Africa and Nilo Saharan speaking Africans of the Sahara, who are black Africans. Some people purposely misinterpret this argument as African Americans claiming descent from ancient Egypt, when we are not. We are merely pointing out the fact that a lot of people have been lied to about the true appearance of the original ancient Egyptians. Genetic migrations from Sub Saharan East African into Egypt and across Northern across correlate with the origins and spread of the Afro-Asiactic languages shown by professor Christopher Ehret above. From Luis et al. 2004 (link to study containing the image in title above) Archaeological evidence simply does not the support the common misconception that Middle Easterners and certainly not Europeans were present or seen in notable numbers during the Pre-Early Dynastic periods.
The peer reviewed article above summarizes what mainstream research has concluded about the population history of ancient Egypt. They clearly find that the crania early ancient Egyptians more closely resembled tropical African populations (like Ethiopians and Somalis) to the south rather than to modern Egyptians, other populations on the Mediterranean or Europe. The dendrogram below is from Kemp 2006 which demonstrates the exact same finding: (link to study in title above) Notice that the early Egyptians and Nubians are the most overlapping population on the entire dendrogram. The next in line with the early ancient Egyptians are modern Ethiopians. Leading anthropologist on this subject S.O.Y Keita as groups the early ancient Egyptians with the populations above: This does not mean that modern Egyptians are not the descendants of the ancient Egyptians, because other studies including this one finds continuity from early ancient Egyptians to modern Egyptians. What these findings disproves however is that the phenotype of modern Egyptians is the same as the early ancient Egyptians. This is not surprising due to the fact that modern Egyptians are the result of a mixture of the countless foreign invasions from the Levant and Europe and the original black Africans of ancient Kemet (Egypt's real name). Modern genetic studies have also found some modern Egyptian populations (mostly in the south or isolated) to group closer to Horn Africans than to Northwest Africans and Middle Easterners, based on both common Mtdna and Y-DNA. Other researchers have concluded that the general population of ancient Egypt was 'super tropically adapted' like the tropical Africans to the south of them. Based on ecological principal populations who have super tropically adapted body plans are within the range of the world's darkest skin colors: What do limb proportions indicate: The skin color of early ancient Egypt nobles was found to have been packed with melanin like other black Africans to the south:
Here are some images that based on my own subjective viewpoint (which is all that imagery can provide) illustrate my point: Ancient depiction of King Tut (not a reconstruction) Ethiopian Children Modern Southern Egyptian children Modern Arabanized Northern Egyptians
Depictions of the ancient Egyptians along side Dinka Nubians, Libyans, Semitics Beja man Egyptian dancers Somali Lady
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjCgZt0ok1Y&feature=related"]Kemet (Egypt) and saharan North africa - A black civilization 1 - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkbExSrmhok&feature=related"]Kemet (Egypt) and Saharan North Africa - A black civilization 2 - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apl3Xtlabjc&feature=related"]Kemet (Egypt) and Saharan North Africa - A black civilization 3 - YouTube[/ame] Egypt's cultural origins explained by late African historian Basil Davidson.
In the documentary below forensic experts have found the facial structure of the sphinx to be consistent with broad featured African populations: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cDYQ9OppkU&feature=player_embedded[/ame]