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  2. Ancient Egyptian race controversy - Wikipedia

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    As a result, ancient Egyptian artifacts provide sometimes conflicting and inconclusive evidence of the ethnicity of the people who lived in Egypt during dynastic times. [ 189 ] [ 190 ] In their own art, "Egyptians are often represented in a color that is officially called dark red", according to Diop. [ 191 ]

  3. Egyptians - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 January 2025. Ethnic group This article is about the contemporary Nile Valley ethnic group. For other uses, see Egyptian (disambiguation). For information on the population of Egypt, see Demographics of Egypt. Ethnic group Egyptians Total population 120 million (2017) Regions with significant ...

  4. 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.

  5. Coptic identity - Wikipedia

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    An Egyptian man with Anubis Faiyum mummy portrait of an Egyptian man with sword belt, Altes Museum. Egypt has always been one of the most populous lands of the ancient Mediterranean world, with a population of at least 3 million Egyptians in the first century BC according to the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus. [32]

  6. Demographics of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    According to the Peterson Institute for International Economics and other proponents of demographic structural approach (cliodynamics), the basic problem Egypt has is an unemployment rate driven by a demographic youth bulge: with the number of new people entering the job force at about 4% a year, unemployment in Egypt is almost 10 times as high ...

  7. Genetic history of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The 135 modern Egyptian samples were: 100 from modern Egyptians taken from a study by Pagani et al., and 35 from el-Hayez Western Desert Oasis taken from a study by Kujanova et al. [5] The 35 samples from el-Hayez Western Desert Oasis, whose population is described by the Kujanova et al. study as a mixed, relatively isolated, demographically ...

  8. Ethnic groups in the Middle East - Wikipedia

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    Ethnolinguistic distribution in Central and Southwest Asia of the Altaic, Caucasian, Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) and Indo-European families.. Ethnic groups in the Middle East are ethnolinguistic groupings in the "transcontinental" region that is commonly a geopolitical term designating the intercontinental region comprising West Asia (including Cyprus) without the South Caucasus, [1] and also ...

  9. Egyptian Greeks - Wikipedia

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    The Egyptian Greeks, also known as Egyptiotes (Greek: Αιγυπτιώτες, romanized: Eyiptiótes) or simply Greeks in Egypt (Greek: Έλληνες της Αιγύπτου, romanized: Éllines tis Eyíptou), are the ethnic Greek community from Egypt that has existed from the Hellenistic period until the aftermath of the Egyptian coup d'état of 1952, when most were forced to leave.