As most of you know I usually don't cover egyptian history in my videos but my sister-in-law got me this amazing gift from Egypt! Thanks @tibug26
@TheEmpireFN @tibug26 A curiosity question about ancient Egypt. As far as those foreign groups that took over Egypt. How many of those foreign groups settled in Egypt? What were their numbers in comparison to the native Egyptian population? #Cleopatra #KevinHart #ancientegypt
@CrowdPleeza @TheEmpireFN @tibug26 Only a few conquests of Egypt involved settlement, and while we don't have exact numbers for any groups, it seems that they were fairly small minorities. Based on limited genetic evidence, modern Egyptians seem to have about 20% more foreign ancestry on average than ancient ones.
@KalahSoma @TheEmpireFN @tibug26 I was curious because I sometimes see people saying that most modern Egyptians are descendants of the foreign invaders of ancient Egypt.
@CrowdPleeza @TheEmpireFN @tibug26 Yeah, that's a common assumption, but it isn't well grounded in the evidence we have. A lot of people have a somewhat warped idea of a lot of historical conquests, colored by early modern settler colonialism; historically, most conquests didn't involve much migration.