Mummy privilege: They have also discovered that the mummies appear to be clustered together by hair colour, with those with blond hair in one area and all of those with red hair in another.
Mummy privilege: They have also discovered that the mummies appear to be clustered together by hair colour, with those with blond hair in one area and all of those with red hair in another.
it says they don’t know why so many people were buried at one site. I suspect it was because they were dead.
I’m confused, wasn’t there some media fuss recently regarding a movie about ancient Egypt because they used European actors to portray Egyptians and isn’t the American academic community trying to make a case that the ancient Egyptians were negroidal… I’m confused…
There are some puzzling aspects to this story. Blonds and Red- heads in ancient Egypt? Were they visited by vikings?
It seems like some diggers are seeking publicity, ie funding.
The remains also coincide with the Byzantine / Roman period of Egypt. Maybe some northern Italians? I still don’t get the million number with only a small village nearby. That would imply poor people were transported over distance for burial?
Hilarious, read the article last night on Drudge and the Red & Blonde hair thing that stuck out.
It looks like in their goofy nerd enthusiasm they forgot to have the international PC censors remove the offending statement before publishing.
It’ll be interesting to see how they cover up the story from here and try to explain it away.
Of course there were several Europeans in Egypt at that time. Cleopatra was a direct descended to Macedonian Greek general closest to Alexander Ptolemy. After the death of Alexander the Macedonian empire split with Alexander’s generals dividing the spoils and the empire. Ptolemy took Egypt. Seleucid took the northern area Judea area.
Red haired mummies have been discovered in Egypt as far back as 3500BC.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2233822/Stabbed-The-5-500-year-old-mummy-murder-mystery-unearthed-virtual-autopsy-British-Museum.html
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aes/p/gebelein_man.aspx
1500 years ago is 500 AD, that is to say in the period called “Late Antiquity.” The last days of the Western Roman Empire. Given how easy it was to move around the Roman Empire, almost anyone might be buried in this cemetery. Irish, Scots, Anglo-Saxons, Saxons, Scandinavians; Greeks, Jews, Persians, every variety of black; it would be surprising to find Inuit, and not likely to find very many Chinese.
There’s much much more to premodern Egypt than Cheops and “King Tut.”
DNA testing – they have teeth, get ‘er done.
A million buried there, I think it is only 999,999 that is buried there, a million is an over statement
So much for the idea of red heads going extinct!!!!!
Ve vill take ovah der vorld!
Henna colour? Yes henna colour you want
Where be they keepin’ the duds with the ‘fros?
Here are the mummies where are the daddies?
kakola, you may be onto something here. Thanks for a good laugh.
Spurwig, this is Africa,. They like makin babies with white women but don’t like stickin around!!! Lol
Faium was the largest man-made lake in antiquity.
When first discovered and the painted burial masks appeared on European markets, their colors were so well-preserved and bright the masks were believed to be faked.
Google search [faiyum] brings up the masks. Clicking on Google images displays the masks in astonishing array.
I wrote a page about a particular mask of a boy from Faiyum that arrested my attention. The page has become rather popular (for my little blog)
I was so fascinated with its individual elements, the way it differed from the rest, it’s pristine condition, I could not shake it until I tried my hand at reproducing it. I ended up making a 3-page pop-up card for a friend’s birthday with the portrait of the boy of Faiyum as the cover picture. That too turned out to be an unusually popular page (for one of my other little sites.) I failed. I didn’t come close to the original portrait. And it looks so easy.
I give up.