Thread by @kongoring3

A Guy Named Tom, His Opinion In Egypt

¨For most of the existence of modern humans the Sahara was a desert and few people lived there. The portion of the Nile Valley that is now in Egypt was pretty much isolated due to the desert and the swamps south of that area, so it is not likely many people lived there.

Looking at the geography and remembering that long sea travel is relatively new, it seems to me that, while some people may have come across the Sinai, most came from south of the Sahara.

As the Sahara began to turn back into a desert people began to return to where they came from, but also to go to oases and the biggest oases is the Nile Valley. When the Sahara was wet the Nile Valley would have been swampy and most people living there would have moved away.

If most people in the Sahara Savanna were descended directly from people who lived south of the Sahara Desert,

then it seems that most people who moved to the Nile oases would have descended directly from those people that were Black. Based on this the ancestors of most early Egyptians never left Africa.

Now it seems that over many generations living in Tropical regions results in the skin turning darker and living north or south of the Tropics results in the skin turning lighter.

Egypt is mostly north of the Tropics so while being "Black" the early Egyptian would have, over generations, become lighter skinned.

Further there appear to be a second reason why over generations skin turns lighter and that is diet. It is my understanding that hunter gathers have a diet richer in Vitamin D as compared to the early farmers such as those who first developed the Egyptian civilization.

So this is another reason for the early Egyptians to get lighter skin over generations as the lighter skin would allow sunlight to better produce Vitamin D for them. On top of this it is my understanding that before the uniting of Upper and Lower Egypt

the Upper Egyptian society (in the south) was the most advanced and it seems likely that people descended directly from those in the south would have populated Upper Egypt and those who descended from people in Eurasia would more likely have populated Lower Egypt.

Also these images of early Egyptians could have been painted darker with the paint fading over time.

This deals with early Egyptians, but it is something else for later Egyptians. Egypt had been pretty much protected and isolated during most of its history, but in the 4th century BCE it was taken over by the Greeks.This introduced European Genes into primarily the upper classes.

So the early Egyptians may have not have been "Black" in regard to having dark skin, which is due to them living north of the tropics or change in diet, However, it seems that they were likely "Black" in regard to having descended directly from people south of the Sahara.¨

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