Was Nefertiti a black chick?

Question

My black friend Lakisha says that Nefertiti was a black woman. My white friend Tina retorts that Nefertiti wasn't black. I don't know which side to take.

Answer 1

Nefertiti was not a black African, although her husband, the Pharaoh Akhenaten and his mother, the Queen Tiye, do appear to have had a least the possibility of some black ancestry.



Most of Ancient Egypt's pharaohs over the thousands of years of that empire, were not primarily black African, but mostly Mediterranean in ethnic/racial background.



There was a dynasty of black pharaohs during a period when Nubia/Kush controlled Egypt.



All that being said, the ancient world did not have the racist attitudes that much of the world's population has today, so, although royal families may still have tended to marry within their own extended family groups (and even married brothers to sisters), taking a wife or concubine from another racial or ethnic group wouldn't have been forbidden on the basis of race alone.



Take a look at the first links below that show images of Nefertiti, Akhenaten, and Tiye. The other links are to info about the black/Mediterranean ancient Egyptian theories. Snowden's are premier, IMO, as that was his specialty area of study and he was a very well-respected African-American professor at Howard University.

Answer 2

No but there was a period when the Nubians from the south ruled Egypt but that was much later.



Some evidence suggests that she hailed from the town Akhmim and is the daughter or niece of a high official named Ay.



Akhmim still exists and is about midway between Aswan and Cairo...north of what was Nubia.



Cleopatria is another Pharoah that is said to have been black...wrong. She was in fact a Greek in the Ptolemy dynasty.

Answer 3

I dunno but based on appearance I think I dated your sister once.