Were Ancient Egyptians Black, White, or Arab?

The question itself imports a modern grid onto people who didn't use it. Here is what we can say: Egyptian civilization grew up locally in the Nile Valley, and its population changed and mixed repeatedly across three thousand years.

Full video: https://youtu.be/3TbIU6QRb9I

Sources:
1. Population history of Egypt — Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_Egypt
2. Naqada — Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naqada
3. How 'African' is Northern Africa? — Global Voices. https://globalvoices.org/2018/05/28/how-african-is-northern-africa/
4. Amarna Letters — World History Encyclopedia. https://worldhistory.org/Amarna_Letters

Image credits: Tutankhamun figure, C. R. Lepsius, Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien, 1849–59 (public domain). Map of Africa, S. A. Mitchell Jr., 1864 (public domain). Map of Egypt: Dispatch Atlas, 1858 (public domain). Ruler objects: The Met Open Access (CC0); Rome relief: Yair-haklai, CC BY-SA 4.0. Scales: Pearson Scott Foresman (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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