Metatron reviews a video featuring an Egyptologist

[archaeologist]

Metatron reviews a video with an Egyptologist who is answering questions. When it comes to the question "How did the ancient Egyptians look like?" Metatron thinks that the Egyptologist more or less dodges the question.

[anansi]

There's an old Jamaican saying: Duppy Know a Who Fi Frighten


He is lucky not to have asked Dr Rebecca Futo.

And Christopher Ehret.



Stuart Tyson Smith, I'd view this last because it's the longest.

[Brandon S. Pilcher]

Getting tired of these Metatron threads. What credibility does he have on this topic?

[anansi]

Oct 23, 2024 1:26:28 GMT -5 Brandon S. Pilcher said:

Getting tired of these Metatron threads. What credibility does he have on this topic?

He can tackle the subject, however he need to stop playing with the facts.

[thelioness]

Oct 22, 2024 22:31:39 GMT -5 archaeologist said:

Metatron reviews a video with an Egyptologist who is answering questions. When it comes to the question "How did the ancient Egyptians look like?" Metatron thinks that the Egyptologist more or less dodges the question.

 Original History Hit video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ou7PHQDL50&t=0s

Chris Naunton's channel
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Chris+Naunton

From the above Metatron video:
 9:45

Question: what did the Egyptians look like?

Chris Naunton: I suppose we know how the Egyptians wanted to appear from their
art and it's it's very interesting that um in some cases even when we know individuals were old and maybe not in
what we would think of as the best shape physically they depicted themselves in say statues and paintings as being
youthful and unblemished which is kind of window into how they wanted to look maybe um we know to some extent what
some of them actually uh looked like perhaps from the very best preserved mummies which um even if they don't have
the same appearance that the individual would have had in death they capture something
of the features of the the person yeah the mummies can absolutely
be used to study that but also iconography maybe I would have spoken about iconography wall paintings mural
art before speaking about the mummies but the mummies are absolutely part of it the person they look like human
beings like any other human beings


Metatron: no Professor what's your what's your name again what's your name Chris Chris
no that's a copout that is a massive cop
out why are you not you know exactly what this question is asking let's stop
playing dumb here cuz obviously dumb you're not you're very intelligent
"the Egyptians look like human beings" come on have some courage stand the ground
use the sources the iconographgraphy the descriptions the paintings the
murals the statues the mummies and tell it how it is that's what we need in our
day and age the courage to speak the truth based on the sources are you
afraid like who are you afraid of that they're going to call you a racist so what they're clowns you know this is
this is the problem that I have with this topic and unfortunately much of Academia these days not all Academia but
much of Academia these days they're afraid they're they afraid because they know that this topic is going
to be inflammatory and of course no matter
what he says if he says oh the ancient Egyptians were all white oh he's going to be devoured alive but the same way if
he says the ancient Egyptians were all black then there is going to be a whole other side of people that are going to
go after him and call him all sorts of names so at the end of the day the reality of fact is that they were mixed
and I say it here and I will state it until evidence will prove otherwise they
were a mixed people at the end of the day even if people disagree just State
what the facts.

I disagree with Metatron.  The question to this Egyptologist was "what did the Egyptians look like?"
So he answers
"we know how the Egyptians wanted to appear from their
art"  and "the very best preserved mummies... capture something of the features of the the person" 
I find that to be an acceptable answer but what what Metatron wants him do is answer that question
by picking one of the following
black, white or mixed.  
Those are modern political color based stereotype terms.
Why should an Egyptologist who is supposed to be a type of scientist
have to chose on of these socio-political race categories ?  

And he chastises this guy for being afraid to taking one of these positions 
but Metatron himself says they were mixed which is not even 
a hard line race position

Most Egyptologists today don't deal with making racial statements about the Egyptian
and I think with good reason, it's subjective and identity politics