What Hieroglyphics Say About the Women of Ancient Egypt

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What Hieroglyphics Say About the Women of Ancient Egypt


The priests of Amun held an elevated position in ancient Egypt. But modern archaeologists were stunned to discover that a group of women were even more important – they were dubbed ‘The Wives of Amun.’

From the Series: Sacred Sites: Egyptian Priestesses http://bit.ly/2wM8VeP

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  1. The thing about ancient civilization is that you know they are black when the women held authority or if they were seen as equals. I mean look at European culture. They were largely against women ruling and literally made them second class citizens

  2. She’s a Somali queen and she’s from The Land of Punt and it’s still exists now in Somalia its called Puntland and her name is a Somali name Amuun in Somalia it’s still named by the girls

  3. A DNA test of a group of mummies from the Amarna Egyptian Pharaohs matched the genetic profiles of the population of the Great Lakes region.
    In 2010 the Egyptian Government (Department of Antiquities) commissioned a DNA Study on the mummies of the Amarna Period; the 18th Dynasty. The study was performed by European biologist.
    It was an autosomal DNA study, meaning the whole genetic profile of the specimen was examined: SRT scores, alleles in the chromosomes etc.

    The results of the sudy was that ancient Egyptians were native Africans sharing affirnity to the Nabta Playa samples and East African population. The specific conclusion was that: the closest living genetic relatives of ancient Egyptians are Black South Africans and Great Lakes East Africans; Bantu populations with roots at Nabta Playa (north west Sudan).
    The results were not published by the Egyptian government in 2010. So, DNA Tribes of Switzerland whose archeogenetists had participated in the team of European biologists published the Study under 'DNA Tribes: Genetic results of the Amarna Mummies show they are Sub-Saharan Africans'. The Egyptian government was thus finally forced to publish the study. DNA Consultants also independently verified the Study. The Study/results are available online on JAMA.

    DNA tests were conducted on the mummies of Pharaoh Rameses III and his son, which proved that they belonged to human Y chromosome group E1b1a. This is the Y chromosome group of Sub Saharan Africans who speak Niger–Congo languages.
    The disclosed Y chromosome group of the Pharaoh, at the time of releasing the report, was considered as just one of the details to make the investigation scientifically solid with facts. But its revelation caused a stir equal to the purpose of the original forensic investigation.
    Another group of mummies from the Amarna period of Egyptian pharaohs were tested by DNA Tribes, an American Company which specialises in conducting DNA tests, in 2013.
    The conclusion of the tests were that the mummies autosomal profiles would be most frequent in the present day populations of the African Great Lakes region and Southern Africa. Subsequent analysis of the autosomal profile of the mummy of Pharaoh Rameses III also concluded that this matched the genetic profiles of the population of the Great Lakes region as well.

  4. Please stop with the politics in history, history should be about truth, not the rise in feminism in current times where everything has to be altered for today's political climate. Its anti history, its cherry picking.

  5. Why is it that when depicting African people there are white actors? Egyptian is a black civilization not white. There are a plethora of black people to tell our story.

  6. Copts are the descendants of ancient Egypt and other Northeast African populations have genetic admixture from them

    “Those of the North-East cluster (Beja, Ethiopians, Arabs and Nubians) and Fulani. Populations from the North-East cluster: Beja, Ethiopians, Arabs and Nubians (Table 2) may be explained as admixture products of an ancestral North African population (similar to Copts) and an ancestral South-West population (Nuba, even if in one case Darfurians have better fit). These four populations had an intermediate position between Copts and South-West Sudanese populations both in the PC and admixture analyses.”

    The genetics of East African populations: a Nilo-Saharan component in the African genetic landscape

  7. This temple complex is from the 18th dynasty. King tut and his grandfather Amenhotep III belonged to haplogroup r1b which is present in Western Europeans. Queen tiye belonged to maternal lineage K which is common among West Eurasian populations

    “An investigative study was carried out on the familial relationships of a number of late 18th dynasty mummies (ca. 1550–1295 b.c.), including that of Tutankhamen. The study was based on the analysis of the autosomal and Y-chromosome STR markers in addition to mitochondrial hypervariable region 1 sequences. A 4-generation pedigree of Tutankhamun’s immediate lineage and the identity of his ancestors were established. The Royal male lineage was the Y-chromosome haplogroup R1b that was passed from the grandparent (Amenhotep III) to the father (KV55, Akhenaten) to the grandchild (Tutankhamen). The maternal lineage, the mitochondrial haplogroup K, extended from the great-grandmother (Thuya) to the grandmother (KV35 Elder lady, Queen Tiye) to the yet historically unidentified mother (KV35 Younger lady) to Tutankhamen”

    Insights from ancient DNA analysis of Egyptian human mummies: clues to disease and kinship

  8. Egyptians didn’t depict themselves as black, I’m Egyptian and I’ve seen most of these hieroglyphics many times, the men was depicted in red or brown as they work outside, women were depicted in yellow as they work indoors

  9. Egyptians didn’t depicted them selves as black, I’m Egyptian and I’ve seen most of these hieroglyphics many times, the men was depicted in red or brown as they work outside, women were depicted in yellow as they work indoors

  10. Egyptians didn’t depicted them selves as black, I’m Egyptian and I’ve seen most of these hieroglyphics many times, the men was depicted in red or brown as they work outside, women were depicted in yellow as they work indoors