The racial ancestry of Pharaoh Tutankhamen was revealed in 2010 after the 'leaked' results revealed that King Tut’s DNA is a 99.6 percent match with Western European Y chromosomes. A 99.6 percent fit with the R1b haplogroup is significant is, of course, because that R1b is the most common Y-chromosome haplogroup in Europe reaching its highest concentrations in Ireland, Scotland, western England and the European Atlantic seaboard — in other words, European through and through.
In 2014, a Cemetery with One Million Mummies Unearthed in Egypt was discovered. The significance of this is the mass number of graves appear to be ordinary citizens rather than royalty or other important figures. They also discovered that the mummies appear to be clustered together by hair colour, with those with blond hair in one area and all of those with red hair in another. A woman, with long blonde hair, was found buried among a group of other bodies that all had healthy sets of teeth. It is believed that some of the clusters by hair colour may actually be due to people being buried in family groups and so are related, much as the deceased are traditionally buried today.
The mummy of the wife of King Tutankhamen has auburn hair. (61) A mummy with red hair, red mustache and red beard was found by the pyramids at Saqqara. (62)
Red-haired mummies were found in the crocodile-caverns of Aboufaida. (63) The
book HISTORY OF EGYPTIAN MUMMIES mentions a mummy with reddish-brown hair. (64) the mummies of Rameses II (65) and Prince Yuaa (66) have fine silky yellow hair. The mummy of another pharaoh, Thothmes II, has light chestnut-colored hair. (67)
An article in a leading British anthropological journal states that many mummies have dark reddish-brown hair. (68) Professor Vacher De Lapouge described a blond mummy found at Al Amrah, which he says has the face and skull measurements of a typical Gaul or Saxon. (69) A blond mummy was found at
Kawamil along with many chestnut-colored ones. (70) Chestnut-haired mummies
have been found at Silsileh. (71) The mummy of Queen Tiy has "wavy brown hair."
(72) Unfortunately, only the mummies of a very few pharaohs have survived to
the 20th century, but a large proportion of these are blond.
The Egyptians have left us many paintings and statues of blondes and redheads.
Amenhotep III's tomb painting shows him as having light red hair. (73) Also,
his features are quite European. A farm scene from around 2000 B.C. in the tomb
of the nobleman Meketre shows redheads. (74) An Egyptian scribe named Kay at
Sakkarah around 2500 B.C. has blue eyes. (75) Here is a picture of him:
http://www.delphi.com/redramesses/messages/?msg=21.1
The tomb of Menna (18th Dynasty) at West Thebes shows blond girls. (76) The god
Horus is usually depicted as white. He is very white in the Papyrus Book of the
Dead of Lady Cheritwebeshet (21st Dynasty), found in the Egyptian Museum in
Cairo. (77)
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The racial ancestry of Pharaoh Tutankhamen was revealed in 2010 after the 'leaked' results revealed that King Tut’s DNA is a 99.6 percent match with Western European Y chromosomes. A 99.6 percent fit with the R1b haplogroup is significant is, of course, because that R1b is the most common Y-chromosome haplogroup in Europe reaching its highest concentrations in Ireland, Scotland, western England and the European Atlantic seaboard — in other words, European through and through.
In 2014, a Cemetery with One Million Mummies Unearthed in Egypt was discovered. The significance of this is the mass number of graves appear to be ordinary citizens rather than royalty or other important figures. They also discovered that the mummies appear to be clustered together by hair colour, with those with blond hair in one area and all of those with red hair in another. A woman, with long blonde hair, was found buried among a group of other bodies that all had healthy sets of teeth. It is believed that some of the clusters by hair colour may actually be due to people being buried in family groups and so are related, much as the deceased are traditionally buried today.
More evidence preceding this in 2001 reported that analysis of the record in Egypt found that 102 of 115 Racially-Identifiable Mummies Were White.
The mummy of the wife of King Tutankhamen has auburn hair. (61) A mummy with red hair, red mustache and red beard was found by the pyramids at Saqqara. (62) Red-haired mummies were found in the crocodile-caverns of Aboufaida. (63) The book HISTORY OF EGYPTIAN MUMMIES mentions a mummy with reddish-brown hair. (64) the mummies of Rameses II (65) and Prince Yuaa (66) have fine silky yellow hair. The mummy of another pharaoh, Thothmes II, has light chestnut-colored hair. (67)
An article in a leading British anthropological journal states that many mummies have dark reddish-brown hair. (68) Professor Vacher De Lapouge described a blond mummy found at Al Amrah, which he says has the face and skull measurements of a typical Gaul or Saxon. (69) A blond mummy was found at Kawamil along with many chestnut-colored ones. (70) Chestnut-haired mummies have been found at Silsileh. (71) The mummy of Queen Tiy has "wavy brown hair." (72) Unfortunately, only the mummies of a very few pharaohs have survived to the 20th century, but a large proportion of these are blond.
The Egyptians have left us many paintings and statues of blondes and redheads. Amenhotep III's tomb painting shows him as having light red hair. (73) Also, his features are quite European. A farm scene from around 2000 B.C. in the tomb of the nobleman Meketre shows redheads. (74) An Egyptian scribe named Kay at Sakkarah around 2500 B.C. has blue eyes. (75) Here is a picture of him: http://www.delphi.com/redramesses/messages/?msg=21.1 The tomb of Menna (18th Dynasty) at West Thebes shows blond girls. (76) The god Horus is usually depicted as white. He is very white in the Papyrus Book of the Dead of Lady Cheritwebeshet (21st Dynasty), found in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. (77)
If you follow the links above, you can read more about this subject. I had to use the Wayback machine and Archive.is to locate and retrieve these links. If you find more, please archive them for posterity.