Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The question of the race of ancient Egyptians was raised historically as a product of the scientific racism of the 18th and 19th centuries, and was linked to models of racial hierarchy based on skin color, facial features, hair texture, and genetic affiliations. A variety of views circulated about the racial identity of the Egyptians and the source of their culture. These were typically identified in terms of a distinction between the Caucasoid and Negroid racial categories. Some accounts argued that Egyptian culture emerged from African populations to the south, while others pointed to influences from the Middle East, and yet others proposed that at least the upper classes originated from Europe. Some scholars state that, in Europe and especially America, the very origin of ethnology, anthropology and eugenics lay in the attempt to define the characteristics of race and how it applied to ancient Egyptian remains, and that from the beginning, these studies of Egyptian remains were at the core of the ideas of race and the debates over racism and slavery.Since the second half of the 20th century, anthropologists have rejected the notion of race as having any validity in the study of human biology. Typological and hierarchical models of race have increasingly been rejected by scientists in favour of models of societal development based on geographical origin.However, the question of the phenotypical characteristics (skin color, facial features, hair texture) and genetic affiliations of the ancient Egyptians remains a point of study, discussion, and debate.. }
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- Ancient_Egyptian_race_controversy abstract "The question of the race of ancient Egyptians was raised historically as a product of the scientific racism of the 18th and 19th centuries, and was linked to models of racial hierarchy based on skin color, facial features, hair texture, and genetic affiliations. A variety of views circulated about the racial identity of the Egyptians and the source of their culture. These were typically identified in terms of a distinction between the Caucasoid and Negroid racial categories. Some accounts argued that Egyptian culture emerged from African populations to the south, while others pointed to influences from the Middle East, and yet others proposed that at least the upper classes originated from Europe. Some scholars state that, in Europe and especially America, the very origin of ethnology, anthropology and eugenics lay in the attempt to define the characteristics of race and how it applied to ancient Egyptian remains, and that from the beginning, these studies of Egyptian remains were at the core of the ideas of race and the debates over racism and slavery.Since the second half of the 20th century, anthropologists have rejected the notion of race as having any validity in the study of human biology. Typological and hierarchical models of race have increasingly been rejected by scientists in favour of models of societal development based on geographical origin.However, the question of the phenotypical characteristics (skin color, facial features, hair texture) and genetic affiliations of the ancient Egyptians remains a point of study, discussion, and debate.".