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>>15172422
The 25th dynasty Pharaohs were black Nubians, the Egyptian army from the Middle Kingdom had its bulk formed of Nubian archers, and black Nubians held positions of regional power and authority throughout Egyptian history. However, the bulk of Egypt's population was North African, and they depicted themselves as such pictorially with reddish skin for men and yellow skin for women. Even today Egypt's population is largely the same as what it once was, with only 20% of the population having a detectable link to the Arabian people. I know your post was a joke but ethnic identity is a really interesting topic in Egyptology. You'll be happy to know though that not a single Egyptologist in Cambridge I'm aware of believes they were even mostly "black" however. If you want to read a great article on the subject here's a citation to an article on an ethnically black official Hekanefer who depicted himself as ethnically Egyptian in his tomb paintings:
>Smith, S.T., 2015. Hekanefer and the Lower Nubian princes: Entanglement, double identity or Topos and Mimesis. Fuzzy Boundaries. Festschrift für Antonio Loprieno, 2, pp.767-779.