The interviewee in the following interview is one of the rare scholars (outside of African scholars) who admits that modern Egyptians are in fact a...The interviewee in the following interview is one of the rare scholars (outside of African scholars) who admits that modern Egyptians are in fact a mixture of various people of Asia and Europe over time. Due to his accent and poor audio quality, it may be a little difficult to understand him. I advise you either wear headphones or turn your speakers up a bit. Now, of course African scholars have been saying this for years. This was even noticed by Jean-Francois Champollion, the decipherer of the hieroglyphs, in his text _Grammaire Egyptiene_:

<< The ancient Egyptians…belonged to a race of humans who resembled in every way the Kenuz or “Barabras,” the current inhabitants of Nubia. The Copts found in Egypt today have none of the characteristic traits of the ancient Egyptian population. The Copts are the result of the anarchic metissage of all the different peoples that had successively dominated Egypt. It is wrong headed to try to find in these people the physical traits of the ancient race. >> (Cited in Fluehr-Lobban & Rhodes (2004: 90), translated by Antenor FIRMIN (1885) from the French)

This was understood as well by the late Chancellor Williams in his _The Destruction of Black Civilizations_ and I think his explanation is one of the best, if not the best. Show more

Ancient Egyptian DNA

In this mini recap episode I host Egyptologist Dr. Juan Carlos Moreno García on a very fascinating and sometimes controversial topic and that is...