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  2. Dynastic race theory - Wikipedia

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    The dynastic race theory was the earliest thesis to attempt to explain how predynastic Egypt developed into the sophisticated monarchy of Dynastic Egypt.The theory holds that the earliest roots of the ancient Egyptian dynastic civilisation were imported by invaders from Mesopotamia who then founded the First Dynasty and brought culture to the indigenous population.

  3. Ancient Egyptian race controversy - Wikipedia

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    The Black Egyptian hypothesis includes a particular focus on links to Sub Saharan cultures and the questioning of the race of specific notable individuals from Dynastic times, including Tutankhamun [243] the person represented in the Great Sphinx of Giza, [236] [244] [245] and the Greek Ptolemaic queen Cleopatra.

  4. Dynasties of ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The first 30 divisions come from the 3rd century BC Egyptian priest Manetho, whose Aegyptaiaca, was probably written for a Greek-speaking Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt but survives only in fragments and summaries. The names of the last two, the short-lived Persian-ruled 31st Dynasty and the longer-lasting Ptolemaic Dynasty, are later coinings.

  5. Genetic history of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The tomb of two high-status Egyptians, Nakht-Ankh and Khnum-Nakht, was discovered by Egyptian workmen directed by Sir William Flinders Petrie and Ernest Mackay in 1907. Nakht-Ankh and Khnum-Nakht lived during the 12th Dynasty (1985–1773 BCE) in Middle Egypt and were aged 20 years apart.

  6. Category:Ancient Egyptian race controversy - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to the Ancient Egyptian race controversy, a variety of views circulated about the racial identity of the Egyptians and the source of their culture. [ 1 ] ^ Edith Sanders: The Hamitic hypothesis: its origin and functions in time perspective , The Journal of African History , Vol. 10, No. 4 (1969), pp. 521–532

  7. Ethnicity of Cleopatra - Wikipedia

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    The race and skin color of Cleopatra VII, the last active Hellenistic ruler of the Macedonian Greek Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, has caused some debate, [2] although generally not in scholarly sources. [3] For example, the article "Was Cleopatra Black?"

  8. Naqada III - Wikipedia

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    Early Egyptologists such as Flinders Petrie were proponents of the Dynastic race theory which hypothesised that the first Egyptian chieftains and rulers were themselves of Mesopotamian origin, [3] but this view has been abandoned among modern scholars.

  9. Ptolemaic dynasty - Wikipedia

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    Reigning for 275 years, the Ptolemaic was the longest and last dynasty of ancient Egypt from 305 BC until its incorporation into the Roman Republic in 30 BC. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Ptolemy , a general and one of the somatophylakes (bodyguard companions) of Alexander the Great , was appointed satrap of Egypt after Alexander's death in 323 BC.