I’ve only lightly skipped through but watched the part discussing Diop and the melanin concentration of the mummies of Tuthmose II, Seti I, and Rameses II
What I know for sure is that Seti I and his son Rameses II were of Nubian descent.
Seti was the son of Pa Rameses, the founder of the 19th Dynasty.
Pa Rameses father was also named Seti, who was a courtier during the reigns of Akhenaten, Tutankhamen, Aye, and Horemheb, the last kings of the 18th Dynasty.
Here is a snippet of Seti’s ancestry.
Seti, the forefather of the
19th Dynasty, was from a military family in the
Nile Delta. According to one theory he is identical with a royal envoy mentioned in the
Amarna letters as
Shuta.
[1] His brother Khaemwaset is probably identical with the Royal Fanbearer and
Chief of the Bowmen of Kush Khaemwaset, who is mentioned on a statue dating to
Tutankhamun's reign. Khaemwaset's wife Taemwadjsy was mistress of the Harem of Amun and is probably the same Taemwadjsy
who was sister to Huy, Viceroy of Kush.
[2] So Seti was the member of a very prominent family, and after his son Paramessu (Ramesses I) was chosen by Pharaoh
Horemheb as his successor, Seti's descendants went on to form one of the most powerful dynasties of Egypt.
So Seti’s brother was Chief of the Bowman of Kush (Nubia). And his brother’s wife was the sister to Huy, the Viceroy of Kush (Nubia) during the reign of Tutankhamen.
The Viceroys of Kush were the rulers of Nubia who reported to the Pharaoh under Egyptian occupation.
The former
Kingdom of Kerma in
Nubia, was a province of
ancient Egypt from the 16th century BCE to eleventh century BCE.
During this period, the polity was ruled by a viceroy who reported directly to the Egyptian Pharaoh.
This fresco is taken from the tomb of Huy, the Viceroy of Kush during the reign of Tutankhamen.
The 25th Dynasty, which consisted of the Nubian Kings that ruled over Egypt, were the descendants of these Viceroys.
It is believed that the Egyptian
25th Dynasty were descendants of these viceroys, and so were the dynasties that ruled independent Kush until the fourth century CE.[
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But what they fail to mention is that the Ramessid Family (19th Dynasty) and therefore Ramesses II (considered to be the greatest Egyptian Pharaoh) were descendants of Nubians as well.
As for Tuthmose II, a predecessor of Tutankhamen, they traced their genetics and found that it originated around the Great Lakes region in Central Africa, which is the source of the Nile. Which lends to the most logical explanation of the origins of the Ancient Egyptians, being that of a group of people from the Great Lakes region, who migrated down the Nile to the Delta that empties into the Mediterranean.