so... just for the record the evidence on whether or not the ancient Egyptians were racially "Caucasian" or "black" is very controversial. As a current student of Ancient History at university, I have done some research on this topic. It is impossible to get a truly clear picture of the ethnicity of the Ancient Egyptians, as with many other things in history people tend to steer towards two extremes. For centuries it was written that the Ancient Egyptians had to be Caucasian because there was no way that African people could create a civilization like that of ancient Greece. This opinion needed to maintained so that Caucasians could continue to justify their enslavement of Africans be declaring them an inferior race. After the end of the African Slave Trade, and the changing status on the rights, and conceptions about Black people this opinion had to be rethought. However here is where people go a little crazy in the opposite direction. Afrocentric scholars are now asserting that the Egyptians were a sub-Saharan culture and therefore were black. The truth of the matter is it is hard to tell, DNA samples are easily contaminated, and this is assuming that we can even use modern constructs of "Black" and "white" at all. The theory that I am likely to believe is that due to the geographical location of ancient Egypt, between Africa, The Near East, and the Mediterranean is that it was more a melting pot of different people of different ethnicities, and the truth is that modern ideas of "race" and "colour" cannot be used to define a civilization that existed for thousands of years, thousands of years ago. Why should we think that the current classifications of people are the same as the ancient world? In my opinion, it is highly possible that procreation of people with different features has caused a huge change in skin colour in the last couple thousand years.
