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do you want to know something?? I always wondered what the hell kind of hairstyle the Ancient Egyptians were trying to portray with depictions like these

and this

until I did my hair this morning and 

oh

welp

you can take the noses off our statues but until you find a way to take Egypt out of Africa we’re still going to find ourselves

I’m reblogging this post without all the salty, racist commentary because I’m sick of looking at it. please spread this around again in its pure form for posterity.

What’s funny is that white people thought they were hats/crowns 😂

ESIUQRAM

Here’s a really good post about this.

And here’s some pictures of the Afar people, who still live on the horn of Africa today.

Cool, huh?

Beautiful

People thought it was Hats and Crowns? How could they not see hair?

The same reason archaeologists, upon finding a woman’s skeleton in the grave of a famous Roman gladiator, immediately wondered where the gladiator’s skeleton was: Old Straight White Man™ brand denial.

Same way they denied the Really Gay Egyptian Tomb, too. It’s kind of a Thing.

This post is amazing, I’m so glad it exists. I have learned.

There is so much greatness in this post and all white people care about is defending why they thought the depictions are hats. White people??? Why are you like this???

I’m salty as fuck that we were taught they were crowns at SCHOOL. For Christ sake.

Their hair is laid to rest. How do I get on this wave?????

I’m really afraid how woke my kids are gonna be in school.

This is why Eurocentrism is bad for archaeology, and we really need race and gender theory. We can only learn about the past if we’re able to ask the right kinds of questions.

When the Greeks took over, what then? Like cleopatra is always depicted with this Look, but she straight up wouldn’t have this hair because she was Greek. Can someone who actually knows what’s going on explain this to me?

I love learning 🙂

Cleopatra would actually have been bald, because wigs were really fashionable in among rich Egyptians, both for practical reasons (wigs are cooler in hot weather and you don’t get nits) and because it meant you could have really elaborate hairstyles with minimal fuss. Plus, they used to do things like stick cones of scented wax on their heads so that the smell would be released as the wax melted, and that sounds like it would be really uncomfortable with your natural hair.

To be fair, since the busts and murals above were obviously of people who were rich enough to pay artists, the hair up there may well also be wigs (this would explain why their hair has adornments in it and, in the case of the people in the painting, is actually blue).

This doesn’t mean that that isn’t what their hair naturally looked like when they didn’t save it off— in fact, it seems like it would be slightly weird if that hairstyle was totally unheard of and yet they all decided one day that that was going to be the style nearly everyone had forever— but it does at least slightly explain why so many people insisted they were crowns.