What do scientists think Ancient Egyptians generally looked like?

Question

I need this info for something I'm writing, so what was their:

Skin color?

Facial structure?

Eye, nose and mouth shape?

Body structure(tall or short, made for athletic activities, etc.)?

An answer to any of these would be great, and feel free to add any appearance details if you'd like. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

dark skinned caucasians

Answer 2

Iv been to the egyptian museum in cairo and iv seen the mummies - they look just like normal human beings -and its amazing considering they are over 3000 years old some of them

they are shorter than modern day people

the ancient egyptians had the same skin colouration as modern day egypt which can vary from an olive brown do a dark arab brown

For facial structure, eye nose and mouth shape -  just look at their drawings - they are prety much the same as modern day egyptians and human beings for that fact - they even wore mascara (made from charcoal)

As for body structure- it varys as it does today

- farmers and laybours doing hard physical work as you would expect would be thin and quite muscular, most people were thin as although there wasnt a general food shortage - they didnt eat as much or as unhealthy as we do nowdays

obvcourse you get a few fat people as well - but they would have been mostly rich people and nobles that could afford big feasts of ox and other rich meats

Although they lived thousands of years ago - remember the ancient egyptians were just people - and so they look just like normal people - if not a little bit smaller lol

Answer 3

   'Ethnic' eygptians can still be found in the Coptic populations of modern Eygpt. Becuase they intermarry with other Coptic Christians  rather than Muslims  they have maintained an ethnic identity since from before the Arab invasions.    Of course this  Eygptian ethnicity was influence by its contact  and intermarraige with Greece, Nubia, Persia, etc prior to the arab invasion  but they are still realitvly 'pure' eyptian. This conservation of eygptian idenity can be seen in the  coptic langauge  has been linquisticly identifed as the decendent of the ancient eygptian langauge  and was used in the translation of Heiroglyphs.   The majority population of Eygpt is considered 'Arab' but it intermarried with those Eygptians who converted to Islam .

Answer 4

Scientists don't think at all on this. They have the Mummies