DNA evidence suggests ancient Egyptians were not African

Posted On: Jul 23rd, 2017 at 12:51

Egypt
I haven’t posted anything about Egypt for a while as there hasn’t been much news, but I was supposed to report on these findings when they were released at the end of May.
The results of this DNA study of ancient Egyptians are stunning. Previous studies carried out were quite clear that ancient Egyptians were most closely related to modern-day Egyptians, which may not have been much of a surprise, and it was certainly a slap in the face to many black Africans. I say that as I had many arguments over this issue online with several Africans, who were using the facial profile of the Sphinx as evidence that black Africans were responsible for building the pyramids and also ancient Egypt itself, since the Sphinx does appear to have a black African female facial profile. My argument was clear – many wall paintings show people with different skin tones, including pink (white), brown and black, but the predominant colour was a lighter shade of brown, suggesting the majority population was of this colour. In fact, most of the depictions shown of black Africans in ancient Egyptian walls suggests they were slaves. It is known that Egyptian slavery of black Africans started around 1300 BC, and these were brought down the Nile from further inland, towards Nubia.
This is a very sensitive subject, as many black Africans have used the race card against DNA evidence in the past, and have dismissed the findings as western culture trying to whitewash African history. The reality of the matter is science is just trying to find the truth, and with new evidence suggesting the “out of Africa” theory of human beings to be wrong, there’s an interesting aspect to this new data. On the contrary, I have no doubt that on many occasions western culture has tried to whitewash many elements of ancient history, but that’s not the case here.
New DNA evidence now puts a whole new perspective on this issue. The DNA gathered from ancient Egyptians dating from 1400 BC to 400 AD shows that they were from the Near East. That is, places like Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and so on. This data proves the wall paintings I previously mentioned were accurate depictions of the people living in Egypt during that time period, but what does it mean for the Sphinx argument?
Well, it firstly suggests the ancient Egyptians of the dynastic period were immigrants; that they were not native to the area. Secondly, modern-day Egyptians have more African DNA than their ancestors. These pieces of data add another element to the argument – the area we know today as ancient Egypt may well have been uninhabited at some point and that all Egyptians, modern or ancient, were immigrants.
I am convinced that the Sphinx at least is an older structure than the date applied to it. There is more than enough geological evidence to destroy the accepted dating of the Sphinx and its temple. So, if the ancient Egyptians were immigrants, we still have to go back further in time to find out the creators of the Sphinx. The second piece of geological evidence regarding the Sphinx is that the head was clearly reshaped, and it is the African profile that appears on it today. So let’s assume there was a population of black Africans who inhabited that place and reshaped the head. And then we have to go back even further in time to discover the true makers of the Sphinx. Who were they?
The fact that ancient Egyptian DNA is further away from sub-Saharan Africa than modern Egyptian populations gives one a headache and creates a much larger dilemma. Instead of having two different populations involved in Egypt through the ages, we now appear to have three. I say different populations but there is continuity – at least the ancient Egyptians and their modern counterpart are related in some form, but the fact modern Egyptians are more related to sub-Saharan Africans suggests the ancient Egyptians migrated into Egypt and then migrated out of it, to an extent. It’s clear after the conquest of Egypt by Rome that more Africans moved into the Egyptian area, thus providing the modern gene pool with African DNA, and post Rome there was an exodus of people back to their native lands, leaving the then decaying ancient culture to its own demise.
The issue of DNA regarding ancient and modern populations is one aspect of this argument. For me, the most important question is who built the Sphinx? Was it sub-Saharan Africans or another set of people? My bet is we are looking at another set of people. There is a logical reason for this: Firstly, sub-Saharan Africans did not migrate north, as far as we know, into the Sahara region that far back into history (I refer to a population settling in the area, not the wider migration of human beings into the Near East and ‘passing through’). Since the region where the Sphinx is located was in a wetter climate and the Sphinx clearly has had water weathering, we are probably looking at a more ancient set of people that are completely unknown to modern scholars. There is clear evidence that some of the pyramids were built over older structures, and these structures extend far back into antiquity. More and more evidence is coming to light of a great catastrophe at the end of the ice age, and we have to take into consideration Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, near the Syrian border. Most likely the people who built Gobekli Tepe were, in some way, connected to the builders of the Sphinx. Both of these structures point towards a certain date in time, and that date has to be similar. Gobekli Tepe is around 12,000 years old, and we have to see the Sphinx as being of a similar age. That’s the reason the builders of pre-dynastic Egypt were likely the same as those who built Gobekli Tepe.
With regards to sub-Saharan Africans this is a delicate subject. It is not about race or racism. The facts are very clear, and this new DNA evidence clearly shows the ancient Egyptians, going all the way back to 1300 BC at least, were indeed from the Near East and not sub-Saharan Africa.
But now we have an incredible new dilemma – if the ancient Egyptians were from the Near East, then why does the Sphinx show a sub-Saharan African facial profile?

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-genome-ancient-egyptian-mummies.html