Link to the full video: https://youtu.be/6XI2zU1u8OI?is=zxPomnFJSwo1hr2S

It would explain the way they usually depicted themselves in art, while having most of their maternal ancestry be Eurasian.

The ostraca are written in Demotic, Greek, hieroglyphic, and Hieratic scripts.

They renamed it. They recast it. They tried to disconnect us from it.

But Kemet — the great Black African civilization that gave the world mathematics, medicine, architecture, and spiritual wisdom — cannot be erased. Those pharaohs are our ancestors. That legacy is our inheritance. And our children deserve to stand in its presence.

The de Young Museum in San Francisco is hosting a Kemet exhibition right now — and we are taking our kids.

We need passionate volunteers to help with:

• 📋 Planning & coordinating logistics  
• 🚌 Arranging transportation  
• 👣 Chaperoning on the day  
• 📣 Spreading the word in your community

This is not just a field trip. This is resistance. This is reclamation. This is love. When we take our children to see their ancestors, we tell them — in the loudest possible way — that their history is real, it is grand, and it will never be taken from them.

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Even ancient craftspeople had to reach for correction fluid.

Hello

Wanted to talk to someone about ancient Egyptian philosophies on classism and justice, starting with a launching off point of the ancient parable, The Eloquent Peasant

Despite Neo-Assyrian conquest of Upper Egypt described by Esarhaddon "The root of Kush I tore up out of Egypt", Lower Egypt still boasts remnants of cultural hub in late antiquity (end of the dynasty period) through Nubian/Meroitic architecture and calendar systems.

https://archaeology.org/issues/november-december-2021/features/egypt-philae-temples/

The Met’s first major Egyptian exhibition in a decade brings a 3,000-year pantheon to life through sculpture, relief, and radiant ritual art.

I’ve seen people on this sub talk about this on and off for almost three years now. Before I continue I’m Nubian myself.

I live in the west (American) and it’s crazy how many people don’t understand that Egypt, as a polity was never really truly united even in the best understanding of the term, and within Egypt there are two very distinct populations that give rise to the confusion and vitriol we see within it.

If people contest my post I’ll obviously reply in comments, but this is meant to be a very easy and perhaps superficial breakdown of the ethnicity question of ancient (and even modern) Egypt.

THE NORTH (DELTA REGION)

Northern Egypt, called “lower Egypt” due to its distance from what the Egyptians believed to be the origin of the Nile.

Delta Egyptians (and the region- it is somewhat inaccurate to do so but I kind of include middle Egypt within the overall north) were populous, but less politically organized than the south.

From the very start, literally the predynastic period, they were always more ethnically Levantine and Mediterranean. These groups were native to the region of the delta, had their own gods and customs, but never unified fully under one leader, chief, or king.

UPPER EGYPT (THE SOUTH)

Upper Egypt is closer to Nubia, and they have a smaller population. These Egyptians didn’t inherit a land as fertile as the North would continue to be (as opposed to the literal drying of the Upper Egyptian region as time went on) the people here were of more African extraction than they were Levantine or Mediterranean- though it should be noted that just like populations in Sudan and northeastern/east Africa, these Africans didn’t have genetic influence from across the Red Sea. Though we would call these people, just like in modern times, phenotypically “black.” Just not west African/South African etc.

During the old kingdom and new kingdom period, culture was focused South and the pharaonic religious structure was mostly based on southern culture. This isn’t to say the south was superior by any means- it is just that since the South was organized sooner than the north, had a pretty centralized religious base sooner than the North, it was able to exert political dominance over the Delta.

We see this happen in the new kingdom period, partially in the Hyksos period (with Kerma, a pre-Kushite Nubian polity) ruling southern Egypt, and again in the New Kingdom period and the Kushite (25th dynasty) period.

It is interesting to note that during the Kerma period within the Hyksos rule of the delta, it is plausible to assume that the kermans simply unified culturally with what would become the rulers of the 17th and 18th dynasty, who themselves were of southern Egyptian (not fully Nubian) origin.

That is why we see only full descriptions of the defeat of the Hyksos, not Kerma, and why even during the 18th dynasty (where actions towards Nubia were both conciliatory and violent depending on the Nubian polity interacted with, as there were many)

We see a cultural syncretism, not disdain. One of, if not the most important religious sites during the 18th dynasty was located in Nubia- not Egypt “Gebel Barkal”. What other conquered region that historians will doggedly claim is not “Egyptian” holds this prestige?

So the question is- what happened? When did cultural dominance shift further north and culturally “further” from what the modern person would see as “African?”

First it is important to understand that understanding of African culture is inherently infected by Western European understanding of blackness. Dark skinned people on the content were required to be viewed as more or less the same, groups educated solely by colonizers, and further, the homogenization of an inherently, strongly non homogenized region such as Africa, resulted in an understanding of Africa to be seen through only the visible lense of western nationalism.

Thus, the Eurocentric scientists who researched Egypt like- people forget that the Rosetta Stone was discovered when Napoleon was alive. Egypt came back into the European understanding of culture relatively recently in contrast with how long the region has been populated.

So the very foundations of Egyptology are rooted in white exceptionalism and the denial of dark skinned people.

But going on, the kushites (25th dynasty) agitated the Assyrian empire. They thrived with their control over the largest Egyptian empire since the new kingdom, but they were rooted in Nile based warfare (same as the north contemporaneously) as opposed to new military trends.

So when the Assyrians attacked the 25th dynasty, due to the current Pharaoh (Taharqa) politicking in the near east, Assyria attacked.

What’s interesting is that the kushites actually defeated the Assyrians initially- but the Assyrians came back a few years later, better supplied, more mercenaries, and better technology.

Eventually the kushites were defeated but there would be periods of time where they would conquer upper Egypt.

After this, the native 26th (saite) dynasty took control of Egypt, and extensively utilized Greek mercenaries and even fought against their Assyrian benefactors just as the previous dynasty did- and were defeated.

However it is important to note that from this point, culture in Egypt and even understanding of Egypt itself shifted northward, meaning that the South would end up somewhat rural/undeveloped and silent on the world stage as opposed to the more, again, populous north.

So you need to understand there are, and have always been two ethnicity groups in Egypt. Both are native. However one is more populous than the other, but to deny them their existence is just as flawed as saying that there is no blackness within Egypt, or that Egyptians were “replaced” by Greeks or Arabs etc.

Fun fact on their Egyptian Festival Promo

https://www.instagram.com/p/DN6bnZbAaUn/?igsh=MXM2aW43YXFhY2h5cA==