Science Scientists say you weren't Kangz and shiet.

The first ever genetic analysis of mummies found that ancient Egyptian kings were more closely related to West Asians than Africans, according to a study published Tuesday by scientists at the Max Planck Institute.

The research found that ancient Egyptians were most closely related to Neolithic Levantine, Anatolian and European populations. The mummies tested did not share strong genetic links to Africa often found in modern Egyptians.

“This suggests that an increase in Sub-Saharan African gene flow into Egypt occurred within the last 1,500 years,” Wolfgang Haak, who led the research team, said in a statement.

“The genetics of the Abusir el-Meleq community did not undergo any major shifts during the 1,300 year timespan we studied, suggesting that the population remained genetically relatively unaffected by foreign conquest and rule,” Haak said.

It’s further evidence that ancient Egyptians were genetically different than modern day residents. Scientists largely agree that ancient Egyptians were indigenous to the Nile area, but a vocal minority of “Afrocentric” scholars claim that the area’s ancient population was entirely African.

Those scholars claim ancient Egyptians were similar to Sub-Saharan African cultures, arguing that famous Egyptian rulers, including Tutankhamun and Cleopatra, were more African than Caucasian.

Researchers analyzed ancient DNA from mummified Egyptians who lived from 1400 B.C. to 400 A.D., establishing that mummies can be a reliable source for genetic material to study the ancient past.

The study could open the door to further genetic testing of mummified remains. More than 151 individual mummies were examined during the research. Scientists recovered mitochondrial genomes from 90 individuals and genome-wide data sets from three individuals.

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-05-genome-ancient-egyptian-mummies.html

 

[ICametoLurk]

This came to the surprise of no one sane.

 

[RI 360]

Looks like a lack of melanin leads to civilization always.

 

[76LD910]

First we learned that the original hominids might not have originated in Africa and now this ?

This has been a rough couple weeks for melanated individuals.

 

[XYZpdq]

This is surprising because there's no drawings from the time showing Ancient Egyptians looking entirely different from black people appearing in the same drawings.

 

[RI 360]

the dude who runs the black people matrix is doubling down, whitey:

 

[Cosmos]

This came to the surprise of no one sane.

Exactly. Afrocentrism is a joke in the academic world. The vast majority of Egyptologists deny that ancient Egypts were KANGZ N SHIET sub-Saharan.

 

[RI 360]

If you want to make an Egyptian apoplectic, tell him his ancestors were black.

 

[Woodcutting bot]

Egypt was probably black

Spoiler

for a few years near the end before it fell into permanent irrelevancy

 

[melty]

Arguing if ancient Egyptians were black or not shouldn't fucking matter anyway

 

[Positron]

...but but Beethoven and Shakespeare are still black!!!!!

 

[Gym Leader Elesa]

I literally thought we already knew this. I never thought this was ever in serious dispute (even discounting afro-centrist theories.) Look at the fucking pictures they drew of themselves. Confirming it was a huge waste of time and effort.

 

[CWCchange]

This is surprising because there's no drawings from the time showing Ancient Egyptians looking entirely different from black people appearing in the same drawings.

 

[AnOminous]

It's ridiculously annoying when groids feel they have to steal European history when they have their own history.

Mansa Musa (actual REAL KANG). Why not popularize this guy? You could make an all black Game of Thrones-tier story about him, and without even changing the real history.

I hate to use this particular phrase, but I think it actually is internalized racism when you don't even know about the real history of your people and despise it so much that you'd rather make up lies about how random white people were actually secretly black.

It's sad and dumb, since despite all the utter shit racists on /pol/ say, there was a time when Africa was not only on the same level as European civilizations, but possibly even doing better. The Mali Empire is just the most obvious example. Truly "progressive" historical research would be making these already known facts more widely known.

 

[CWCchange]

^Mansa Musa was Muslim, so Afrocentrics don't consider the Mali Empire as "their own" because it came about from Islamic conquest. Nevertheless, the Moors are another group of people they frequently steal from, and use their expulsion as narrative for the beginning of persecution to the present.

 

[melty]

It's ridiculously annoying when groids feel they have to steal European history when they have their own history.

Mansa Musa (actual REAL KANG). Why not popularize this guy? You could make an all black Game of Thrones-tier story about him, and without even changing the real history.

I hate to use this particular phrase, but I think it actually is internalized racism when you don't even know about the real history of your people and despise it so much that you'd rather make up lies about how random white people were actually secretly black.

It's sad and dumb, since despite all the utter shit racists on /pol/ say, there was a time when Africa was not only on the same level as European civilizations, but possibly even doing better. The Mali Empire is just the most obvious example. Truly "progressive" historical research would be making these already known facts more widely known.

That is neat but it's a lot more important to argue if the Matrix was actually written by a black woman.

Edit: but anyway people shouldn't feel like they need to dig through history to prove that the group they belong to (black people, women, abbos, whatever) deserves to be treated fairly and equally...

 

[Darndirty]

Genetics are a propaganda tool of white supremacy obviously.

 

[Woodcutting bot]

Arguing if ancient Egyptians were black or not shouldn't fucking matter anyway

History matters, and people trying to falsify it should be challenged, not ignored.

 

[aidshaver9111]

It's ridiculously annoying when groids feel they have to steal European history when they have their own history.

eygpt is in africa or the middle east and shit man when was it europe

 

[Lorento]

eygpt is in africa or the middle east and shit man when was it europe

Egypt is intrinsically linked with Europe, like the rest of North Africa. In its time, it has been ruled by Hittites, Persians, Incestuous Greeks and Romans. Claiming that the Pharaohs of Egypt were genetically sub Saharan is an attempt to distance Egypt from Europe because 'Kangz'