26 January 2013
Now, I have heard that Queen Cleopatra's sister was found. They did some DNA analysis and concluded this royal women had African ancestry but was clearly from a orient of Classical Greek. Now to me this shows that Queen Cleopatra possibly was black. But then people start saying that Arsinoe was only Cleopatra's half-sister and that's it's scientifically proved. What kind of foolishness has come about. Maybe they were half-sisters but that's is not proven. And then people starts saying that the Ptolemies solely inbred. But that's not true. Pharaoh Ptolemy XII, Cleopatra and Arsinoe's father, was illegitimate and only came to throne after the death of his cousin Ptolemy Alexander, who mother also wasn't of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. But you see some people acknowledge this, but when they do, they think it was a Greek women or a Syrian. No offense to all those great writers out there or actresses out there. I really liked Liz Taylor and Leonora Valera's performances. But they always say it was not a black woman. Why couldn't it be? So if you think that Queen Cleopatra is white, okay with me. But understand, if I ever write a story about Cleopatra or Arsinoe, they will be BLACK.
If you want to say dispute this, well do me a favor and don't. Because until they find Cleopatra's body, nothing is certain. For all we know she could have been a blond or a redhead. So remember, everything is possible. And, just in case, because have heard this before, Egyptians were black. The Egyptians original people from the Sahara. These people not only inhabited the place known as Egypt, but places such as Libya, Nubia, Mauretania and Numidia. The first Egyptians such as Rameses II and Hatshepsut really only married Egyptians though some married foreign people. Egypt became multicultural when Macedonians came and, marrying Greek princesses started the Line called the Ptolemies that started with the Macedonian king, Ptolemy I, whose reign of Egypt ended with Queen Cleopatra whose line continued in the African countries of Numidia and Mauretania through her sons and daughter. They even may have extended into the Middle East were Queen Zenobia claimed to be a descendent of Queen Cleopatra Selene. Now they Ptolemies were a family that was mixed races. So the possibility of Cleopatra, her father, mother, grandmother and sibling being black isn't so far fetched.
Cleopatra: Black or White? • Opuss № I