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"Queen Hetop-Heres II, of the Fourth Dynasty, the daughter of Cheops,
the builder of the great pyramid, is shown in the colored bas reliefs
of her tomb to have been a distinct blonde. Her hair is painted a
bright yellow stippled with little red horizontal lines, and her skin
is white."

Coon, Carleton Stevens. The Races of Europe. New York City, Macmillan.
1939, p.98

The tomb of the wife of Zoser, the builder of the first pyramid in
Egypt, has a painting of her showing her with reddish-blond hair.

Heyerdahl, Thor, The Ra Expeditions, Garden City, Doubleday, 1971,
p.249

The mummy of Rameses II has yellow hair.

Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs, Time-Life books, Alexandria, VA 1992 p.8

"A funerary mask with the attributes of the goddess Isis shows a
vivid blue-green color of eyes.

A General Introduction to the Egyptian Collections in the British
Museum. London, Harrison and Sons, 1930, p.49

The mummy of the wife of King Tutankhamen has auburn hair.

Carter, Michael, Tutankhamun, The Golden Monarch, N.Y. 1972 p.68

Red-haired mummies were found in the crocodile-caverns of Aboufaida.

Tomkins, Henry George, Remarks on Mr. Flinders Petries Collection of Ethnographic Types from the Monuments of Egypt, Journal of the
Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Vol. XVIIII,
1889, p.216

The mummy of Rameses II has fine silky yellow hair.

Smith, G. Elliot and Dawson, Warren R. Egyptian Mummies, London,
George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1924 p.99

A blond mummy was found at Kawamil along with many chestnut-colored
ones.

De Lapouge, G. Vacher, L'Aryen, Sa Vie Sociale. Paris, Pichat, 1899,
p.26

Amenhotep III's tomb painting shows him as having light red
hair.

National Geographic Society, Ancient Egypt, Discovering its
Splendors,1978 p.103

An Egyptian scribe named Sakkarah around 2500 B.C. has blue eyes.

Strouhal, Eugen, Life of the Ancient Egyptians, Norman, Oklahoma,
University of Oklahoma Press, 1992, p.53

A common good luck charm was the eye of Horus, the so-called
Wedjat Eye. The eye is always blue, and the word "wedjat" means "blue"
in Egyptian.

Queen Thi is painted as having a rosy complexion, blue eyes and
blond hair.

Hamy, E.T., "Races Humaines de la Vallee du Nil" Bulletin de la
Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris, 1886, p.739

Paintings from the Third Dynasty show native Egyptians with red
hair and blue eyes.

Pijoan, Jose, Historia del Arte Vol III, Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1932,
plate XI

The god Nuit was painted as white and blond.

Champollion, H., Le Nil et la Societe Egyptienne, Marseille, Musee
Boreby, 1973 p.94

A painting from Iteti's tomb at Saqqara shows a very Nordic-looking
man with blond hair.

Westendorf, Wolfhart, Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of Ancient
Egypt. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1968 p.65

Time-Life books recently put out a volume called Rameses II The
Great. It has a good picture of the blond mummy of Rameses II. Another
picture can be found in the book X-Raying the Pharaohs, especially the
picture on the jacket cover. It shows his yellow hair.

A book called Chronicle of the Pharaohs was recently published
showing paintings,scuptures and mummies of 189 pharaohs and leading personalities of Ancient Egypt. Of these, 102 appear European, 13 look
black and the rest are hard to classify. All nine mummies look
European.

The very first pharaoh, Narmer, also known as Menes, looks very
European, The same can be said for Khufu's cousin Hemon, who designed
the Great Pyramid of Giza. A computer-generated reconstruction of the
face of the Sphinx shows a European-looking face.

Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs, Time-Life books Alexandria, VA 1992 p.67

It was once painted sunburned red.

Silverberg, Robert, Before the Sphinx; Early Egypt N.Y., N.Y., T.
Nelson 1971 p.168

The Egyptians often painted upper class men as red and upper
class women as white; this because the men became sunburned or tanned
while outside under the burning Egyptian sun.

The information above is part of the information compiled by
Phillip Bonner and was printed in The Barnes Review, 130 Third Street,
SE, Washington, D.C. 20003

Here is a sculpture of a scribe from the Egyptian Old Kingdom

http://theopenacademy.com/content/lecture-1-seated-scribe-c2620-2500-bce

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