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09/27/2007: "Expert insists Egyptians were not black despite black protests"

Egyptian antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass insisted Tuesday that Tutankhamun was not black despite calls by US black activists to recognise the boy king's dark skin colour.

"Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilisation as black has no element of truth to it," Hawass told reporters.

"Egyptians are not Arabs and are not Africans despite the fact that Egypt is in Africa," he said, quoted by the official MENA news agency.

[ When politics becomes involved, image replaces reality. ]

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on Thursday, September 27th, Uncle Jerry said

Best as I can tell, Egypt started out as a White civilization, built an empire, brought in dark-colored foreignors, cross-bred with them, and then fell in on itself like any multi-culti superpower eventually does.