went to the Met this summer and they displayed wig ornaments on straight, brown Caucasian hair
i like posting those because even today people look at the artifacts and somehow white-ify the egyptians despite nothing supporting that
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despite them modeling it off a sculpture that depicted (what looked to me) like dense curly hair
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@sarahjeong is part of it people being confused by the Ptolemies? (I know I am). Egyptian history gets compressed to one big blob. -
@tjl there's that, but then there's stuff like this, which is just embarrassing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_race_controversy#Caucasian_.2F_Hamitic_hypothesis … -
@tjl see also the squirming of white people re: Herodotus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Egyptian_hypothesis#Greek_historians …
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@sarahjeong People should spend some time with the Fayum mummy portraits. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fayum_mummy_portraits …Merci. Twitter en tiendra compte pour améliorer votre fil. SupprimerSupprimer
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