But Hanna told CBS News the facts from more than 2,000 years ago were less clear. "We do not know for sure whether Cleopatra was Black or White or even red, and we don't even know if she thought ...

Were Egyptians white? Photo illustration by Ellie Skrzat. Photos by Eberhard Dziobek, Unknown, Marcus Cyron/British Museum, and Maler der Grabkammer der Bildhauer Nebamun und Ipuki/The Yorck Project.

Today they constantly tell us on the tell-lie-vision the Egyptians were white or Arab." The post received about 2,900 shares, more than 500 comments and around 3,000 likes and reactions. Some ...

So basically, when we talk about Black and white in antiquity, we're mostly talking about gender distinctions, not what we would call race today. So that's really one of the primary differences.

His use of “light-skinned” as the antithesis of Black is rich because Greeks identify as white. Zahi’s anti-Black rhetoric and the erasure of data that proves that Black Egyptians are a ...

The Egyptian government's Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities has responded to Netflix's documentary casting controversy, claiming that Cleopatra had "white skin." ...

DETROIT (AP) -- An Egyptian immigrant who lives in Detroit is asking the U.S. government to classify him as black, not white. Mostafa Hefny has been trying to get the racial designation since the ...

“When we say, in general, that the ancient Egyptians were Black and, more specifically, that Cleopatra was Black,” Dr. Haley wrote, “we claim them as part of a culture and history that has ...

“The government [interviewer] said, ‘You are now white,” Hefny told CBS Detroit. Since the 1980s, CBS reports, Henfy has been fighting to have the U.S. government reclassify him as black ...

An Egyptian man who immigrated to the United States in 1978 says his insistence that he is black ... "My classification as a white man takes away my black pride, my black heritage and my strong ...

Late-Egyptian Black and White screen stars honoured Amira Noshokaty , Monday 29 Feb 2016 Last week, Semiramis hosted a ceremony where late Egyptian diva Soad Hosney sat next to late movie stars ...