25 Facts about the Great Pyramid of Giza

Population history of Egypt

Modern scholars who have studied Ancient Egyptian culture and population history have responded to the controversy over the race of the Ancient Egyptians in different ways.

Since the second half of the 20th century, most anthropologists have rejected the notion of race as having any validity in the study of human biology.[3][4] Stuart Tyson Smith writes in the 2001 Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt that “Any characterization of race of the ancient Egyptians depends on modern cultural definitions, not on scientific study. Thus, by modern American standards it is reasonable to characterize the Egyptians as “black”, while acknowledging the scientific evidence for the physical diversity of Africans.”[16] Frank M. Snowden asserts that “Egyptians, Greeks and Romans attached no special stigma to the colour of the skin and developed no hierarchical notions of race whereby highest and lowest positions in the social pyramid were based on colour.”[17][18] Additionally,typological and hierarchical models of race have increasingly been rejected by scientists in favour of models of geographical origin.

It is now largely agreed that Dynastic Egyptians were indigenous to the Nile area. About 5,000 years ago, the Sahara area dried out, and part of the indigenous Saharan population retreated east towards the Nile Valley. In addition, peoples from the Middle East entered the Nile Valley, bringing with them wheat, barley, sheep, goats, and possibly cattle.[19] Dynastic Egyptians referred to their country as “The Two Lands”. During the Predynastic period (about 4800 to 4300BC), the Merimde culture flourished in the northern part of Egypt (Lower Egypt).[20] This culture, among others, has links to the Levant in the Middle East.[21][22] The pottery of the later Buto Maadi culture, best known from the site at Maadi near Cairo, also shows connections to the southern Levant as well.[23] In the southern part of Egypt (Upper Egypt) the predynastic Badarian culture was followed by the Naqada culture. These people seem to be more closely related to the Nubians than with northern Egyptians.[24][25]

Due to its geographical location at the crossroads of several major cultural areas, Egypt has experienced a number of foreign invasions during historical times, including by the Canaanites (Hyksos), theLibyans, the Nubians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Macedonian Greeks, the Romans (Byzantium in late antiquity/early Middle Ages), the Arabs, the Ottoman Turks, the French and the British.

At the UNESCO “Symposium on the Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Deciphering of the Meroitic Script” in Cairo in 1974, the Black Hypothesis met with “profound” disagreement.[26] Most participants concluded that the Ancient Egyptian population was indigenous to the Nile Valley, and was made up of people from north and south of the Sahara who were differentiated by their color.[27] The arguments for all sides are recorded in the UNESCO publication General History of Africa,[28] with the “Origin of the Egyptians” chapter being written by Diop.

In 1996, the Indianapolis Museum of Art published a collection of essays, which included contributions from leading experts in various fields including archaeology, art history, physical anthropology, African studies, Egyptology, Afrocentric studies, linguistics, and classical studies. While the contributors differed in some opinions, the consensus of the authors was that Ancient Egypt was a Northeast African civilization (although ethnic type was not mentioned), based on Egypt’s geographic location on the African continent.[21]

In 2008, S. O. Y. Keita wrote that “There is no scientific reason to believe that the primary ancestors of the Egyptian population emerged and evolved outside of northeast Africa…. The basic overall genetic profile of the modern population is consistent with the diversity of ancient populations that would have been indigenous to northeastern Africa and subject to the range of evolutionary influences over time, although researchers vary in the details of their explanations of those influences.”[29]

I think that, they DID help build them because how would they know the exact precise? and plus there a WHOLE universe out there and who knows if were the only ones? and obviously they had to be at least a little dumb to know they were aliens in the first place…

Obviously a racest.. With a big chip on his sholder. You one of those people who thinks the white man is holding you down? Oh your right, we have nothing better to do than put down and hold back minorities. Cry yourself a river build a bridge and get over it… Oh and go to collage. I guarantee its your low education level that’s holding you back not the white man..

use your head you simple minded prick no dudes in rag dresses and leather flip flops made the pyramids with ropes n logs read the facts the didn’t have the knowledge wake up don’t matter what colour they were truth and pain ha there’s some truth you fucking let down!

bro, it has NOTHING to do with color

black and brown people were not the only ones that built the pyramid it was also just normal workers that built it it was just workers from egypt that built it when it was impossible to farm because of the nile flooding so

SO SUCK IT TRUTH AND PAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol…too much Kool Aid mate.

That’s an opinion only expressed by someone who has unforgivness in their heart.
No child of Yeshua holds onto such things
For out of the mouth the heart speaks

bruh… Egypt is in Africa.. .-.

who are you and how did you become such an idiot ? i have read some of the most amazing facts that i have ever laid eyes upon and you come out with ” is it cos i is black” have a word with yourself and get back in your box ali g sorry i mean truth and pain ! you have tarnished what was an amazing read you ignorant so and so. honestly listen to some MJ “if you thinking bout my baby it dont matter if your black or white”

I’m really getting sick of people like you and your racist bs. You are pathetic and a cancer on our species. Kill yourself!

I’d say present day white, black, brown, yellow AND red engineers and architects are at a complete loss as to how they were built. Racist much?

Really?

Wow you are certainly full of yourself
Maybe you can provide some proof with these claims.from what I have seen we really don’t know how old humans are or where we originated.
Archeology is not telling the truth in so many areas what makes you think they are telling you the truth about human origins?

If black Africans built all these great megalithic structures why are there none in south Africa? Why is every country more advanced than Africa?
Please respond without blaming white people we were in caves still
according to you.

Speak for yourself.