Cleopatra!!

Yes, today I saw on the news , Cleopatra was not a greek, she was an african, the scientist resarched Cleopatra's sister's bones and they noticed they were african.

Edited by MythTR - 16-Mar-2009 at 21:32

Lol, I posted a link in the "Moors were Black" thread.

Edited by Jams - 16-Mar-2009 at 21:58

Originally posted by MythTR Yes, today I saw on the news , Cleopatra was not a greek, she was an african, the scientist resarched Cleopatra's sister's bones and they noticed they were african.   What do you say about this topic ?   Thank you!

What I think?

In the nicest way possible - I would have to say that that claim is retarded.

The good ole' Ptolemy dynasty had more inbreeding than a genuine backwoods Alabama' hillbilly reunion.


If Cleopatra was African ( another misnomer as African does not automatically equal "black" skin color)... then Hannibal must have been Black Jesus' & Lord Zenu's love-child.

I only wanted to open a topic which contains interesting things.

Edited by MythTR - 16-Mar-2009 at 22:41

Edited by Paul - 17-Mar-2009 at 13:27

This is just a theory. It is most likely that Cleopatra was of Greek/Egyptian decent.

Originally posted by pebbles Originally posted by Darius of Parsa This is just a theory. It is most likely that Cleopatra was of Greek/Egyptian decent.     Greek patrilineal descent with possible admixture of indigenous Egyptian.

I'm not surprised...

Edited by Jams - 17-Mar-2009 at 14:04

What I found so tragic is that Afrocentrists don't have a single Subsaharan heroe, and that they always forget the actual land from where their ancestors are.

There's no need to discard this scientific discovery as a pure Afro-centrist lie....yet!

From what I've read, it is that the analysis of the bones of Cleopatra's sister reveals sub-saharan African lineage; which could be true. But there is a fair distance between "having sub-saharan lineage" and being "black".
For example, up to 4% of native Iberians and Britons also have sub-saharan lineage, which basically means that one of the recent ancestors came from Sub-saharan Africa; but they are certainly not "black". I might have sub-saharan lineage that I don't know of!

Cleopatra was of Greek-Macedonian patrilineal descent; the matrilineal side could have been Egyptians and Persian. Bearing in mind that the Egyptian aristocracy had absorbed genes from the surrounding peoples from the Syrians to the Nubians; there is not reason why there shouldn't be any sub-saharan lineages present.