Also it’s this weird thing I’ve seen where people act like ancient cultures had like a mass extinction event like the dinosaurs and no one is related to them… the white psyche refuses to think that maybe the Egyptians that live in Egypt now have any connection to the people of Ancient Egypt… all of them packed their bags and then laid themselves down at the British Museum 😔
The “non-racist” justification for that approach in the case of Egypt was the idea that modern Egyptians are the descendants of both the original population and a bunch of Arab invaders who came in during the initial spread of Islam and that the subsequent centuries diluted the original Egyptian ancestry to the point that its culturally and genetically no longer truly linked to them.
Except that not only have Egyptians always been surrounded by 5000 years of ancient history, but modern genetic test have shown that the majority of modern Egyptians are directly related to lineages from North Africa, Arabia, and the Horn of Africa both patrilineally and matrilineally, and that they otherwise reflect the fact that Egypt has ALWAYS been a cultural and ethnic melting pot as the few genetic tests on ancient remains indicate the same patrilineal and matrilineal descent
I had a Assyrian co-worker once who was pretty sick of having to explain that no, the Empire fell, the civilization and people did not vanish.
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