Where did the ancient Egyptians go?

Question

I'm not sure if the remanents and decendants of ancient egypt now make up the population of east africa or what, but how did it just jump from being, obviously egyptians from africa to being conquered and eventually turning into a Hellenistic society from Europe?

does this question make sense? im half asleep.

Answer 1

The earliest predynastic groups in Southern Egypt, along with dynastic Egyptians (both Upper & Lower) show closer affinities with Northeast African populations. Modern Egyptians probably represent the ancient Egyptians the most, although there's not an authentic Egyptian look, considering Egypt has a continuum of phenotypical diversity.



Egypt's population has not been displaced by mass migrations, but rather gene flow has had an effect on the genetic makeup of modern Egyptians.

Answer 2

Okay, you can never find a PURE Egyptian...that would be crazy, because definitely some were married to Greeks, Italians, French, English and some other disappearing identities. They all conquered Egypt at a part of time. So, it's really hard to find a pure Egyptian, but we, Egyptians, are all descended from the ancient Egyptians.

Answer 3

Many black and white people in the Americas carry Native American genes. It does not make them Native Americans nor do they look like Native Americans. They are simply carriers. The Copts are Greek people who brutally colonised Egypt and still live in Egypt. They still carry genes from their past conquest. Greeks, Romans Turkish Arabs and British all had varying spells in colonising Egypt. The so-called coptic language is written with the Greek alphabet so that explains itself. Most Egyptians fled into Africa to escape the slaughter of the men and enslavement of their women and ultimate Arabisation. Western scholarship is trying to pass off Greeks as authentic Egyptians but it doesn't wash... it cannot stand up to honest academic scrutiny.

Answer 4

The Egyptian elite, i.e. those of royal blood, had pretty much married into the Ptolemides by the time of Kleopatra VII (died 30 BC) and wound up emigrating back to Greece, where there are still five branches of the Ptolemides family today. Others, married into the Roman elite and travelled either back to Italy or else throughout the Roman Empire. Their blood wound up in all of Europe's royal families.

Answer 5

They did not go anywhere. The Copts, Egyptian Christians who make up about ten per cent of the population, are descendants of what is left of the "original Egyptians" after the Muslim Arabs conquered Egypt in the 7th century AD.

Answer 6

They got killed and assimilated by the arabs and berbers.

The "purest" descendants of the ancient egyptians are the copts, who still live in Egypt.

Answer 7

They basically became modern Egyptians. Simple as that.