No other cultural sculptures had the noses removed time and time again by those who took that area over. It ain’t some “The nose was the easiest thing to steal” bs either.
more like, we don’t want you to know how wide that nose was…
The Egyptians were black. The reason that the current Egyptians living there look middle eastern is the same reason why we have white people in America.
COLONIZATION.
Explain to me why every civilization in the world could build a steady nose on a sculpture, but the Egyptians couldn’t?
It doesn’t make any sense. If they can build the pyramids they can build a nose, i often find it sad how far the Europeans have gone to preserve their white supremacist ideologies while destroying African history.
Would people please stop reblogging this awful bullshit? There was no conspiracy, or even any kind of mass action, by Arab or European colonizers or anyone else to destroy the noses on Egyptian statues!
And guess what? It turns out the noses do get broken off of non-Egyptian statues all
the
time!
They’ve even got entire museums dedicated to broken Greek and Roman noses!
And while you’re at it, stop trying to spread the totally unsubstantiated myth that ancient Egyptians were “more black” than Egyptians today!
Ancient Egyptians – just like Egyptians today! – had a variety of skin colors! Look, in one famous family:
Ancient Egyptian history needs to be accepted on its own terms. It doesn’t fit into a white supremacist historical agenda, but it doesn’t need to be distorted to fit an Afrocentrist agenda, either. Ancient Egypt was not Europe, but it wasn’t identical with African history, either. Ancient Egyptians saw differences between themselves and all of their neighbors, to the northeast, northwest, and to the south, as we can see in this work, which portrays an Egyptian on the far right:
I’m mostly reblogging this post because of the display of broken noses (plus some ears and part of a face?) Museums full of noses. Can you imagine?
It’s almost like the parts that stuck out were more likely to get broken off over time
The venus de milo doesn’t have arms ffs statues are made out of stone and when you carve stone anything sticking out becomes structurally weak.
I went on a rant about this last night. As someone who is Egyptian, I feel like I have to constantly defend this topic all the time.
Egyptians today, like Egyptians of antiquity were, and still are diverse peoples of color. Egyptians today genetically match their ancestors. There’s white, brown, black Egyptians. You are Egyptian no matter what your skin color is. I learned from my father, who was born and raised in Egypt that the people there embrace nationality over their ethnicity. My father was not white, he was not black, and was not Arab. He was Egyptian and that’s the outlook a majority of Egyptians have over there.
The fact that non-Egyptians (like a matter of fact…zero genetic ancestries at all) try so hard to claim my culture’s history as their own is tiresome. If I wanna wear ankhs and make my eyes look like Wadjet I have every fucking right to because of my lineage, not because my skin color is light or dark enough to fit someone’s idealization of what the ancients looked like.
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