Still is today.

Lol

one was a nobleman serving a pharaoh, the other was his wife

That's pretty cool

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/new-research-shows-some-ancient-egyptians-were-naturally-fair-haired-005812

red and blonde hair genes exist amongs the indeginous north african population

and this is *way* before Greek admixture

the berbers

Must have been pretty cool to be a norman checking out the deserts.

there were obviously some black Egyptians

Egypt conquered the Nubian kingdom of Kush

some of them would've travelled north

Yea, sure they had black slaves as well.

and the Kush in turn conquered Egypt at one point

considering that egypt was a connection route from north to sub saharan africa ye

The original white supremicists.

Egyptians

but I don't think the entirety of the Egyptian genos if a single one existed (several wives of migration did occur, Canaanite and Hyksos both) would've been black

both of those migrations came from Asia, not Africa

the Egyptians probably had more in common with Mesopotamians and the Semitic peoples than they did anyone south of the Sahara

I doubt Egyptians would have seen themselves as white, they drew themselves darker than syrians and greeks

Genetically they were strongly related to other north african and East african/arabic populations

No one would've seen themselves as "white" the way we define it

that concept of race didn't exist

yea makes sense. What Saharan powers going on then? What did they have to trade?

the old Greek word for race, "genos"

there was saharan trade ye

was applied to virtually any identifiable group

Hellenic was a race

Persian

Thracian

Illyrian

true true

groups we'd now consider to be just ethnicities

of course that's the Greek perspective

I'm unaware of how Egypt categorised any peoples

Do you understand that even today people still have problem discerning a race from an ethnicity?

yea that's fair, maybe they were more cultural, but I bet there was facial similarities among races, coming from original "settlers"

yes, but that wasn't my point

the ancient concept of race was not pan-ethnic

I mean the people talk about it anything can be labeled anything else.