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It's only one of many theories about what happened to the ancient Egyptians and has not been proven. It is more likely that the majority of modern day Egyptians are in some way, even if just in part, descended from the Ancients regardless of their faith. This is taking into consideration that the Egyptians of old, especially those from lower (northern) Egypt would have mixed with Roman, Greek, Macedonian, Byzantine & Arab conquerors (all of whom were lighter skinned people), they would have also mixed with people brought in as slaves or settlers from the glory days of ancient Egypt. The Ancient Egyptians would have had a greater resemblence to the African peoples of Somalia, Sudan and Ethiopia and in fact such people are still found in Upper (southern) Egypt and therefore would be theoretically speaking the closest descendants to the ancient Egyptians.
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Where were the ancient Egyptians based?
The ancient Egyptians were based in egypt.
What came first the spartans or egyptians?
The Egyptians came first.
How long ago where the Egyptians?
the egyptians wasin the year ad
How did Egyptians take advantage of their environment?
the Egyptians treasured the Nile
What were some lasting contributions of the Egyptians were in?
=The lasting contributions of the Egyptians were in is medicine.=
Who are the people indigenous to Egypt?
The indigenous people of Egypt are the Egyptians. The Copts are the only group of people who are uniformly descendants of the Ancient Egyptians while most Egyptian Muslims (the Arab Egyptians) are a mix of Ancient Egyptian ancestry and Arabian ancestry.
What percent of egyptians are Arab?
This depends on whether or not you consider Coptic Christians to be Arab. Most Copts would argue quite fervently that they are not Arabs and are, instead, the descendents of the Egyptians from the time of the Pharaohs. Some Copts even make the argument that most Muslim Egyptians are also descendants of Pharaonic Egyptians who had been converted by the small number of Arabian Arabs to Islam and the Arabized. If the Copts are (properly) not considered to be Arabs, but the Muslim Egyptians are, Egypt is 90% Arab. If the Copts are considered to be Arabs, Egypt is >99% Arab.
What is the Copts' holy book called?
Answer 1The word Copts means Egyptians. The holy book for Christian Copts is the Bible and that for Muslim Copts is Qur'an and that for Jewish Copts is Torah.Answer 2When most people outside of Egypt use the term "Copt" they are referring in shorthand to the Coptic Christians whose holy book is the Bible with the same canon as the Roman Catholics, but including Psalm 151.
Who are the Copts?
The Copts are Egyptian Christians.
What is customary for christian copts for a funeral?
how is the death and burial handled by christian copts orthdox
How many copts in the world?
The Copts in Egypt are around 17 million and in the diaspora are about 3 million.
Does Maori come from the Greeks or Egyptians?
The Maori are the indigenous people of New Zealand. Their ancestors arrived from Polynesian Islands in canoes. They have no connection with either the Greeks or the Egyptians.
What was the role of the Copts during Napoleon's occupation of Egypt?
Before Napoleon's arrival in Egypt, the Copts were part of the Egyptian Mamluk Government as accountants. When Napoleon began to rule the country, he desired that the Copts would continue in their professions, so they ended up helping sustain Napoleon's government in Egypt. Unfortunately, because of this perceived alliance between the Copts and the French, there was strong Anti-Coptic sentiment throughout Egypt and there were several calls for genocide against the Copts. Thankfully, this never occurred, but lower level violence against Copts became more common.
What is the cultural background of the followers of the Coptic rite?
native Egyptian Christian. Copts form a major ethno-religious group that has ancient origins. Copts are Egyptians whose ancestors embraced Christianity in the first century. The word "Coptic" was originally used in Classical Arabic to refer to Egyptians in general (see etymology section), but it has undergone semantic shift over the centuries to mean more specifically Egyptian Christian after the bulk of the Egyptian population converted to Islam. In modern usage, it is frequently applied to members of the Coptic Orthodox Church irrespective of ethnic origin. Thus Ethiopian and Eritrean Christians (and Nubians before their conversion to Islam) were traditionally referred to as Copts, though this has been falling out of use since their Tewahedo Churches were granted their own patriarchs.
Are Phoenicians Egyptians?
NO. Phoenicians are a people who are indigenous to modern Lebanon, but who established colonies throughout the Mediterranean, most notably Carthage in modern Tunisia. The Ancient Egyptians were a completely different, but contemporaneous civilization that existed in modern Egypt.
What does the word Coptic mean?
It means: "of the Copts". The Copts are a large ethnic group of people, living mostly in Egypt and the Sudan. They share a common (Christian) religion, the Coptic Church.
What is the Christian minority in Egypt called?
They are Coptic Christians (Copts).
