Were ancient Egyptians European?
Were ancient Egyptians European? The study found that the ancient Egyptians were most closely related to ancient populations in the Levant - modern day Syria, Jordan, Israel and Lebanon. They were also closely related to stone age populations from Europe and the Turkish mainland on the Asian side.
What race were ancient Egyptians?
Robert Morkot wrote in 2005 that The ancient Egyptians were not 'white' in any European sense, nor were they 'Caucasian'... we can say that the earliest population of ancient Egypt included African people from the upper Nile, African people from the regions of the Sahara and modern Libya, and smaller numbers of people ...
Why were the noses removed from Egyptian statues?
Research has shown that ancient Egyptians believed that statues had a life force. If an opposing power came across a statue it wanted to disable, the best way to do that was to break off the statue's nose and hamper the breathing. Broken noses are thought to be the earliest form of iconoclasm.