What color were the first pharaohs?
What color were the first pharaohs? Bernard R. Ortiz De Montellano wrote in 1993: The claim that all Egyptians, or even all the pharaohs, were black, is not valid. Most scholars believe that Egyptians in antiquity looked pretty much as they look today, with a gradation of darker shades toward the Sudan.
Is Egypt African or Arab?
Egypt is most definitely a part of the continent of Africa. They are Arabic by language and some aspects of culture. Mostly, though, they should be considered Egyptian, with a long and complicated history of their own.