Re: "Tell Them They Lie"

[Dennis <ixohoxi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jorge Stolfi wrote:
> 
>     > Some Black Americans have written that the Pharaohs of
>     > Egypt were actually black.  I can't accept that.
> 
> Well, they weren't "white" either, not in any useful sense of the
> word. If their own art is to be trusted, the common folk's skin seems
> to have been a deep brick-brown.  But that seems to be a very sensitive
> topic...

	I'm well aware that Middle Easterners don't have
Caucasian-white skin.  Ancient Egyptian art was not
realistic.  But what I really meant, of course, is that
the ancient Egyptians weren't Negroid.

Dennis