Which evidence ? That 2017 study based on 3 mummies ? lol and what is north african in this context ?1. Those arent literal depictions and the coloration represents different 'races' as they understood them. White was for 'purity', Black was for fertility/deity and death/the underworld, yellow was the Sun and, to a great extent, people who lived along the Mediterranean, red was the color of chaos and the desert, the opposite of black. The brown color is a mix of yellow, red, black, and green.....
Color in Ancient Egypt
The ancient Egyptians had a great appreciation for life which is clearly depicted through their art. Images of people enjoying themselves - whether in this life or the next - are as plentiful as those...www.worldhistory.org
Now, were Sub-Saharan Africans in Ancient Egypt? Of course they were. Was Egypt primarily comprised of Sub-Saharan African people or North African people?
Evidence shows they were North African BEFORE Roman conquest. Let's suppose however, that isn't the case. Suppose Ancient Egypt was 99% Sub-Saharan Nubian, for instance. Why is that no longer the case? You're talking about foreign invaders displacing several tens of millions of people with NO evidence of such migration, and they never took it back.
Egypt has always been a crossroads for black African and middle eastern peoples. It was never pure black or pure middle eastern. The populations that lived in the south during the predynastic and dynastic period were more "black" which is common sense given its proximity to the African interior. The oldest cemetary in ancient egypt is jebel sahaba which is in the southern part of egypt and the remains morphologically match other black africans. But the population in the north has always been more middle eastern in origin.
And the desertification of the sahara desert would have cut off migration from the african interior where as no natural barrier prevented access from the middle east into egypt which is why it has gotten lighter over such a long period.
