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Racism in Egyptology by Non-Egyptologists

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The rise of Racism in Egyptology began with the Internet and the proliferation of books by late Egyptologist E.A. Wallis Budge by non-Egyptologists who profess being called Egyptologists without formal training in a University.  Some of them made claims that “Kemet” the Ancient word for Egypt meant “Land of the Blacks” rather than its actual definition “The Black Land” using the word “Kem” (Black) with the word “T” for Land.  Kem is found in other Egyptian words like Al-Chemy and Chemistry, in reference to the Black Powder used in transforming metals (modern for Gun Powder).  Budge claimed that “Ancient Egyptians and Blacks from Africa had a common ancestor” or were very similar and other racist nonsense.  Budge is outdated in Egyptology.  I have several of his books as evidence: “The Dwellers on the Nile,” “The Gods of the Egyptians,” “Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection,” “The Book of the Opening of the Mouth,” “The Egyptian Book of the Dead,” etc.  Modern Egyptology (1960s-2023 CE) is better for accuracy. 

If you go on any social media outlet (Youtube.com, Facebook.com, etc.) and click on anything Egyptology related you will see comments made against Egyptology by these people.  They believe there is something amiss about “nose shapes or skin color” in Ancient Egypt, or that the noses were smashed on statues because of race (in fact the noses were attacked because of Religious Rituals in Chapter 10 of the Book of the Opening of the Mouth), as with one of the colors of Lord Osiris (Green-skin or black-skin).  Color in Ancient Egypt had a different meaning than today.  Blue has to do with water or the sky, green with plants, black with fertility, yellow with gold, etc. 

Budge compared Ancient Egyptians to “other primitives in Africa” in his books.  He doesn’t notice that Egypt was there long before the other cultures existed.  Egypt was originally underwater during most of the existence of Africa, and sea shells can be found on the tops of the Valley of the Kings in Southern Egypt.  Humans originated from Asteroids in Africa (or their space ships that landed there) and migrated out of Africa, as proven via Genetics and fossils.  This was when the continents were connected prior to Continental Drift, or following the last Ice Age.  Since Egypt was submerged how would Africans live there? The civilizing forces of the Pre-Dynastic era entered Egypt from the North and pushed southwards.  Egypt was colonized by these invaders who unified the Delta and the Southern Nile Valley.  The southern regions attacked Egypt when there were weak rulers in Egypt and had to be pushed further south into Nubia and Kush.  Pharaohs who conquered Nubia traditionally had a “Horus of Gold” name or title.

 

Egyptian Mummies were coated with a black viscous substance [glue] to attach linen wrappings and acted as a sealant against moisture, rendering the skin into a brittle black color (King Tut).  The Arabs called this Bitumen (Tar) or “Mummia.”  Hair color would also be affected by the embalming process, except for Queen Tiye who had a lock of hair buried separately from her mummy in KV62/King Tut’s tomb, which was red-brown in color.   Tiye’s father was Yuya, a Semite that lived in Akhenaton’s city.  Non-Egyptologists claim that Tiye and Tut are “Black African” without evidence.  An Ebony statue that I saw in a tour of Tutankhamon (2018, 2009, & 2005) of Queen Tiye was suggested by these people to be “African”; Ebony was a black-colored luxury wood imported from Nubia in the 18^th Dynasty (Tribute).  Egyptian Conquerors forced Nubians, Syrians, and others to pay Tribute Tax every year and Ebony, Incense, Gold, etc. were found there.

It is helpful however for people of any background to want to preserve Egyptian or Kemetic culture by adopting the customs, vestments, religion, or traditions.  Nubians (Egyptian for “Gold People” because they had Gold Mines) were Palace Guards in the time of Queen Cleopatra VII, and were also Medjay or Pharaoh’s Bodyguards.   They carried the Litter containing the Pharaoh prior to the horse-drawn Chariot. 

It is not helpful by attacking Egyptology for the benefit of racial attitudes towards History or culture or events in the past that one chooses to forget.  These attitudes occur on either side of a bi-racial issue that should not exist, like a tug-of-war misusing Ancient Egypt as the basis.   As a Pharaoh I feel insulted by this attitude. 

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