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ankhesenamun 3s · Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 11:20 pm Post subject: egyptian's hair

was there hair not black and very dark brown? i know some people in africa have blue eyes but. hair? what color was it i say black and mabey dark brown Confused

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*EgYpTiAn*GoDdEsS* · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:58 am Post subject:

i think it was black.. or really dark brown.. but if they had diferent coloured hair ddint they die it black?

Unas · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:50 am Post subject:

Ramses II is rumored to have had red hair...
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Unas · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 11:44 pm Post subject:

That could be true, that the hair is dyed due to mummification; however, I don't think it is very likely. The way dying (or rather, bleaching) your hair works is that first it turns a dark orange to lighter, to yellow (or blonde) and finally white.

Mummification took relatively the same amount of time, varying from corpse to corpse, and of course royal mummies had stronger salts and longer, greater care taken into the process of mummification. Now, there are royal mummies that have hair of dark brown, black, red blonde and white. Personally, I don't think it is due to dying of the hair, as it would mean that all mummies would have at least a lighter shade of hair than black or dark brown.
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Ankhnesmeryre · Tomb Robber Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 2 Location: Here.

I suppose it varied...but it didn't matter much anyway, because most egyptians always wore dark braided wigs x3 I wonder why...

I'd think anything but really light colors...I don't think there were very many blonde egyptians Surprised

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egyptianscribe · Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:14 am Post subject: Shaved heads

Many egyptians shaved their heads. (priest their whole bodies Woah! Wink

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So lets just say they are hairless. Laughing

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tnrees · Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:19 am Post subject:

With royal marriages Pharohs would have more foreign blood than ordinary Egyptians.
I think I read somewhere that homeric Greeks were described as blond haired.

Osiris II · Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:39 pm Post subject:

Trying to classify the Egyptian race by the color of hair is stretching it a bit. Generally, a race CAN be determined more by color of hair, but every race has abnormalities. Ramses II was a natural redhead: There have been lighter colored hair, even blonds, found on mummies. Whether this is color of choice or through the mummification process is a moot point--they have been found!
Don't let this thread dissolve into a pointless argument about race.

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tnrees · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:22 am Post subject:

Just been on a web site & seen an Egyptian in a short blond wig. Not sure which sire it was.

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No, you do not judge their race by their hair color. You look at bone structure.
White skin on typical African bone structure makes for a very strange looking person. Likewise vice-versa.
Egyptian royals, like all royals liked to marry others of the same position.
Egypt was basicly a multi-cultural country for longer than anyone knows.
It does seem that most of the Pharoahs were light haired and light
skinned. Many of them had hooked noses.

Remember the Hyksos were white; they were the Israelites.
It is likely that very few of Egypts rulers were Nubian or other black African. It has been ruled by the Greeks, Persions, Romans etc.
The Ramses were likewise Israelite/jews.
Amenhotep III is said to be a mixed race, and he does look it, both in his statues and his mummy. At this time I am of the opinion that Thutmoses IV was not his father. There is o resemblance there at all.
More likely a large robust Nubian was his father
None of the Thutmoses or Amenhotemps are very robust. Escept Amenhotep II.

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