First of all can you just calm down and quit being a child? Secondly yes I did say that I think the majority of them were brown skinned. Why? Because That's how they look in most of their paintings, in most of their sculptures and how they look today. A simple google search will show you that. Even if you google "Egyptian paintings" you'll get similar results as the ones googling their people. Their paintings correspond with their modern population of "browns with blacks mixed in." The same can be said when comparing the Chinese to their paintings, sculpture, artwork, and modern population. It just makes the most sense to me. Could I be wrong? Sure I could. I'm no expert at this. But that is what I think and no need to demonize me for thinking that. Secondly I like how you ignored the fact that I said "I think they were a multicultural society" Based on the same above 3 statements (art, sculpture, modern population) they had browns, and blacks living within their population. I don't see why there is always this on going "were they black, white, or Arab" argument. People seem to ignore the fact that Egypt is and has always been multicultural which is to be expected from a place that is located on the crossroads of Africa, Asia, and Europe.
A diversion from the topic with some ad hominem and irrelevance thrown in for good measure. Please stop insulting our intelligence and presupposing "black" only refers to people with very dark skin as in Southern Sudanese/Congolese peoples. Black has included a whole range of brown skin, I myself am lighter skinned than many depictions of Ancient Egyptians yet nevertheless am classified as black.
You can think whatever you want, but you can't make up your own facts and a fact people like you seem to ignore is that Egypt was first colonized by Nilotic peoples migrating *up* from the African interior. So contrary to your statement in that comment chain the AE WERE like the blacks to the south. And even though there was immigration over time, Dynastic Egypt's population remained mostly indigenous and continuous, a fact pointed out by the Greeks and Romans who overwhelmingly described the Egyptians as various shades of black/brown. Even the ones who put them on lighter side of darker complexions were comparing them to the absolute darkest people of Africa (and the world) who are near pitch black. The "brown" population today is the result of extensive admixture from ALL directions and the African component(i.e. the component tying them to the AE) has been greatly altered but not eliminated. Maybe you need to go back to the drawing board before continuing to comment, Child.
"The evidence also points to linkages to
other northeast African peoples, not
coincidentally approximating the modern
range of languages closely related to
Egyptian in the Afro-Asiatic group
(formerly called Hamito-Semetic). These
linguistic similarities place ancient
Egyptian in a close relationship with
languages spoken today as far west as
Chad, and as far south as Somalia.
Archaeological evidence also strongly
supports an African origin. A widespread
northeastern African cultural assemblage,
including distinctive multiple barbed
harpoons and pottery decorated with
dotted wavy line patterns, appears during
the early Neolithic (also known as the
Aqualithic, a reference to the mild
climate of the Sahara at this time).
Saharan and Sudanese rock art from this
time resembles early Egyptian
iconography. Strong connections
between Nubian (Sudanese) and
Egyptian material culture continue in
later Neolithic Badarian culture of Upper
Egypt. Similarities include black-topped
wares, vessels with characteristic
ripple-burnished surfaces, a special
tulip-shaped vessel with incised and
white-filled decoration, palettes, and
harpoons...
Other ancient Egyptian practices show
strong similarities to modern African
cultures including divine kingship, the
use of headrests, body art, circumcision,
and male coming-of-age rituals, all
suggesting an African substratum or
foundation for Egyptian civilization
(rather than diffusion from sub-Saharan
Africa, as claimed by some Afrocentric
scholars.)"
Source: The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Egypt,
Volume 3. Oxford University Press. p. 28
Donald Redford (ed).