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You not Egyptian 🤡 stop lying Egypt not African and not black and not Arabs

Cleopatra VII was Greek from the Ptolemaic dynasty. She was white and not black!

Is this a “we was kings” argument?

(Sigh) tell me that people aren’t striking this guy down just because he referenced the suggestion that Egyptians, including pharaohs, may NOT have looked just like Europeans?

Who is this “Black” American dude!? He’s the “Egyptian” expert, not someone actually from Egypt!? 😂🤣

I like this dude. He seems like a no bullsh*t person. Gives clear and accurate ratings.

Kemet means "Black Land“, not "the Land of the Blacks". This name was used to describe the fertile black soil along the banks of the Nile River. This person is sabotaging the subject by playing underdog and stuff

Every Cleopatra was white. They were Greco-Egyptian. Ptolemy I was the Pharaoh of Egypt, but at birth he was Macedonian and was a general in Alexander the Great’s army.

Here's an excerpt from this hack's website :

"Mr. Browder’s three decades of study have led him to the conclusion that ancient Africans were the architects of civilization and developed the rudiments of what has become the scientific, religious, and philosophical backbone of mankind. It is from this framework that IKG has concentrated its research and disseminated its findings."

😂 So much for scientific neutrality. Not sure I'll ever trust Insider's videos again. What a sham.

Should've rated The Mummy (1932 film).

Did he actually watch the whole episodes/movies he's rating? I understand given what he does him being upset at the scene in Moonnight, but if he actually watched the full episode then he would have seen that the issues he had with it were explained and necessary to the plot of that episode. This happens a lot with the experts they bring in to do these and it's not fair to the TV show or movie their rating. It's one thing if the TV show or movie gets something wrong, or just doesn't care about it being right. It's another thing if and it happens a lot with scifi and fantasy TV shows and movies that there's usually a reason often having to do with the plot of the TV show or movie for whatever the issue is being wrong or not completely correct. I like these Insider videos but their doing a disservice to the point of the videos when they continue to allow this to happen because if your saying your going to have a expert rate a scifi/fantasy TV show of movie then whats the point of me wasting my time watching because I already know that based on it being sci-fi/fantasy that's its not going to be accurate.

It's like being in a movie theater. When he talks it's super quite but all the scenes are loud af

God what an embarrassing video. One minute he says there exists images of people pourong liquid infront of the statue, and then in the next sentence says thats its historically inaccurate. Also "kemet" does NOT MEAN LAND OF THE BLACKS. It means black land reffering to the black fertile soil of the floodplane

I had to read to comments to really believe what I was hearing. Don't listen to what they told you in school, Cleopatra was black.

Love this! This made me think of when I was young and always wanting to study Egyptian history/mythology. Great video!

Cleopatra was Macedonian Greek tho…

So Prof Joann Fletcher wasn't available

we're all racist... got it!

I wish he'd have looked at Carry on Cleo, cos that's where I get most of my ideas about Cleopatra and Cesar from at any rate..

All the proof is that Cleopatra was white of Greek descendancy. DEAL WITH IT . EVEN EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT AND PROFESSORS SAID SO

Cleopatra wasn't closer to Halle Berry than to Elizabeth Taylor. Nor the other way around. She was predominatly Macedonian Greek, with minor part of Iranian descent, which is none of them. I'd say it's more white than black, although of a maybe slightly darker hue. Also, there exists a bust of Cleopatra which by the way confirms her appearance from a coin with her profile (made during her lifetime) in which she has thin lips, sloping forehead, small, pointed chin and long hooked nose.

I don't know what the black in "Kemet" referred to exactly, but neither ancient Egyptian images show Egyptians as black, nor is the anthropologic analysis of their remains pointing to them being black (as in Sub-Saharan African). They were neither black nor white, they were related to Phoenicians and both had what had been described as copper reddish complexion. There were surely black people in ancient Egypts, like Nubian soldiers, slaves, foreign diplomats, etc. but that's what they were - foreign. It's extremely unprofessional and definitely discrediting for a scientist to put his personal bias coming from the fact he's got Sub-Saharan heritage and pushing the false black-washing wishful thinking to deny scientific facts.
Also movie makers cast anthropologically wrong actors because they want stars in the cast to bring people to the cinemas, not specifically because they're racist.

When he talks about how it was Anubis and not Set that was pictured as a deity with a jackal head, the makers of the video show an image of Set signed as Anubis. Great job indeed, you get paid for it?

As a military history nut (especially pre-gunpowder), I have a problem with the Exodus battle scene. Although I don't know much about ancient Egypt's warfare, I don't think they would have mounted cavalry. Chariot cav, of course... There was that guy that fell from the horse and got dragged by a strap. This couldn't be a stirrup, because stirrups didn't come into common use in cavalry until some time in the Dark Ages. So, what did he get hung up on? Next, is the line of battle: whomever Rameses was charging had to be the biggest tactical buffoons in military history, or the movie got it completely wrong. 1) the line was set too low and the spears were too short to defend against a charge of horse. 2) The line was too shallow, I saw maybe three ranks when there should have been more like eight--at least! 3) Horses, by instinct, don't run at things, they run away from things. It is very difficult to train horses for war. Moreover, I don't think the Ancient Egyptians would have used chariots to smash infantry lines. More likely, they would have used sweeping maneuvers, using their speed to pass in front of the enemy lines to launch missile attacks with bows and javelins. Once a chariot stops or slows, it's vulnerable and useless. Over all, Exodus gets a 0/10 for military accuracy

Cleopatra was Greek, a Macedonian

For an "expert", he made way too many false claims...

His head is shinier than a harvard student's future

Why is black capitalized in the subtitles as opposed to white?

I think of "Gods of Egypt" as more of a fantasy movie loosely based on Egyptian myth.

Of course had to bring race into it and say they were black ha. Wow

Kemet means black land…not black people…refers to the black soil from the nile

Egypt was not founded by Black Africans. The Egyptian gods were not black men any more than they were White men. This is we wuz kangz-tier and embarrassing. Historians also did not think Egyptians were White men. HOLLYWOOD at the time when historical epics were made was mostly White and thus Whites got the primary roles, particularly British-born actors. It then became a staple in film, through to today even, to depict Roman, Greek and Egyptian empires/governments as homogeneous White dominated, typically with British accents intact, eventually for the trope to become “white British guy in film is obviously the villain”, since most stories depict the power structure opposed to the hero as villainous. See also fictional settings like Star Wars that fell into the same pattern.

Egyptians weren't black. If my dude wants to claim egyptians were blacks, and then says egyptians used coal to blacken the area around their eyes for protection, you kinda having both worlds here :) The reality is, egyptians were mediterranean (light-brown like greeks, southern Italians, Southern Spanish, some shades of Arabs), kinda like later Berbers and Carthaginians. not black like sub-sahara africans. Due to immigration, war, refugees and mercenaries (nubian), there might have been some darker-skinned rulers or notable persons, but they weren't a black people. I don't get this obsession of some black people to try to "claim" ancient egypt. They werent white, they werent black, they were light brown with arab(ish) features, just like every other empire in that area (Hittites, Phoenicians, sumerians). There are great African empires and kings that are undeniably black so why try to reject reality and try to claim egypt? For example Mansa Musa argueably the richest man in history, if you ignore roman and some chinese emperors who owned nearly half the known world so had a wealth that is literally indescribable.

I noticed this guy is a black supremacist. That's pretty sad. Sub-Saharan Africans were black, of course. All the anthropology suggests that ancient Egyptians were probably tan. Similar to modern Iraq or other Middle Eastern cultures.

Kemet refers to the black Nile River silt, not the people. Lol. Black land.

There is one thing that gets me it's okay if we mess with somebody else is dead but oh God be darned if you can dig up you know somebody's else's dead that just died maybe fifty years ago yeah it's perfectly fine to dig somebody up that was dead 2,000 years ago but not 50 years ago that don't make no damn sense to me a grave is a grave I can see if you take that body move it and put it into a graveyard or in a mausoleum I don't care but putting them out on display that's not right you wouldn't want your family member put out on display now would you the human race is so jacked in the head and they called the Romans barbarians yeah well we got a long way to go before we can call ourselves you know civilized trust me if I was one of those mummies and you Disturbed my piece yeah you know it kassad haunt your life like there'd be no tomorrow

Here he goes with the self conjured racism! And he was doing so well, up until the end.
He KNOWS the Egyptians weren't black, like sub-Saharan peoples, and they would be mixed, at most, but still with a mostly Greek and Ptolemaic.
Now, that he has shown a propensity for revisionist history, EVERYTHING he says needs to be questioned.

😂😂I really hope the Eygptologist reads these very insightful comments. He may go back to university and do a bit more reading up on his "passion"😅😅

If builders of PYRAMIDS weren't slaves (just workers) why bury them together in tombs? Why aren't they buried with their families far from pyramids?

They should make tomb evaluation a game:

Tom Rater

It is true that the ancient Egyptians were not white, (for the most part). Indeed they were probably somewhat multicultural. But it is also incorrect to call them black. There would have been some black people in Egypt, but to just categorically say that Egyptians were black is false. The historical evidence shows that the native ethnic Egyptians were not black. In fact, to my knowledge, there was only one one ruling Egyptian dynasty that was black. And they only ruled because they conquered Egypt for a while. In any case, the dynasty that Cleopatra belonged to was, in fact, white. They were Greeks who ruled Egypt after it was conquered by Alexander the Great. So, while I can accept that Cleopatra would perhaps not be as pale as depicted in that one movie, Cleopatra was indeed white, as she was an ethnic Greek, with perhaps some Iranian blood, too.

All the hieroglyphs depict light skinned people, and this "historian" says they were black....

I get the racism thing in Gods of Egypt, but Cleopatra was Greek lol

Hearing "We don't know how Cleopatra died" and then hearing "Cleopatra definitely didn't die from am an asps bite" is confusing. Either you know or you don't know. It's not Schroeder's cat 😂

He lost me the moment he mentioned Egyptians were BLACK and of African heritage giving points to the Black actor. Boooo

he said that cleopatra was closer to halle berry than elizabeth taylor but wasn’t cleopatra greek not african?