Newsletter, Number 167 (SEPTEMBER 1995)
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what color were the ancient Egyptians?” This is a question that strikes fear into the hearts of most American Egyptologists since it so often presages a barrage of questions and assertions from the Afrocentric perspective. Few of us have devoted much thought or research to the contentions of the Afrocentric movement, so we nervous-ly try to say something reasonable, and hope that the questioner won’t persist and that we won’t end up looking silly or racist or both.