This is a question that has been bothering me for quite a while due to people, always without citing sources, stating that Ancient Egyptian people and pharaohs and what have you were dark-skinned.

But can we for certain say "the ancient Egyptians were X color" before getting "colonized" by the greeks?

mixed race

The history of ancient Egypt is longer than the history of modern humanity. There were probably times in there where they were black, but nobody can say for sure.

Looked Irish.

i believe so

gimme a sec, lemme ask them

I will channel Cleopatra's spirit and ask her

No they had the skin of someone from the middle east/north Africa so I guess dark but not 'black' as we envision it

Let's leave the phony bullshit out, they were neither white nor black

cleopatra def had greek blood (ptolemaic dynasty). But im talking about ramses, tutanchamon etc.

No. You can't apply modern ideas of race to ancient cultures as race, as we understand it, is a medievil European invention. Skin color varied between the peoples of Lower Egypt, Upper Egypt, and Nubia and also was dependent on who controlled the region/was in power at any particular point in time.

As i know greeks called the egyptian land "kemet" which meant black land.

No they were like in that Moses Dreamworks film

They had caramel skin

and that wasn't in reference to skin color lol

Underrated classic

i've heard people say the Sphynx face was carved as a Nubian Sub-Saharan African, looking at the proportions being compared, it seems plausable

here we go

Real

but yeah Shakespeare black and so was Chopin

No they weren't. ffs.

b**** was Greek fam

yup they were, they had vitiligo tho

Americans: debate this topic every week
Actual Egyptians: