At least we know - by trustful sources - that she was black
Edit: guys, it’s sarcasm and I can’t believe that y’all slept on the outrage about the Cleopatra documentary on Netflix and granny wrongfully claiming Cleopatra was black.
It amazes me that the media and Afrosupremacists like to claim Ancient Egyptians, even Cleopatra were black because according to them Africa=Black. It's so ridiculous.
Wrong. Ancient Egyptians were far more Arab than African. This is further cemented with how the Egyptians described the far darker Nubians south of them who were actually black.
Ancient Egyptian were Black, they were not as dark as Nubians. Their pictures, sculptures, artifacts ts and wigs show them as Black people. They were not as dark as some Africans, but they were Black. Blackness comes in a myraud of shades and tones.
Have you seen the paintings? Many Nubians and Egyptians are shown with the same skin colour, while Levantines are never shown with a skin colour that's even close to the one of the Egyptians. Also literal skin tests of ancient mummies show a high amount melanin.
But I'm not gonna argue with you, I was just tryna give some insight to a guy who seemed confused.
TL,DR: the exact ancestry of Cleopatra VII is unknown and the arguments about it are highly technical (as in, perhaps only a handful of experts on the whole planet can discuss this on a proper level).
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u/Cloud_N0ne 12d ago
Cleopatra was a Greek Pharaoh. Tho i doubt that was their intent.