Would people please stop reblogging this awful bullshit? There was no conspiracy, or even any kind of mass action, by Arab or European colonizers or anyone else to destroy the noses on Egyptian statues!
And guess what? It turns out the noses do get broken off of non-Egyptian statues all
They’ve even got entire museums dedicated to broken Greek and Roman noses!
And while you’re at it, stop trying to spread the totally unsubstantiated myth that ancient Egyptians were “more black” than Egyptians today!
Ancient Egyptians - just like Egyptians today! - had a variety of skin colors! Look, in one famous family:
Ancient Egyptian history needs to be accepted on its own terms. It doesn’t fit into a white supremacist historical agenda, but it doesn’t need to be distorted to fit an Afrocentrist agenda, either. Ancient Egypt was not Europe, but it wasn’t identical with African history, either. Ancient Egyptians saw differences between themselves and all of their neighbors, to the northeast, northwest, and to the south, as we can see in this work, which portrays an Egyptian on the far right: