Ramesses The Great Was Ginger

[Rival]

Just letting you know though

The mummy was forensically tested by Professor Pierre-Fernand Ceccaldi, the chief forensic scientist at the Criminal Identification Laboratory of Paris. Professor Ceccaldi determined that: "Hair, astonishingly preserved, showed some complementary data — especially about pigmentation: Ramesses II was a ginger haired 'cymnotriche leucoderma'." The description given here refers to a fair-skinned person with wavy ginger hair.

Have a nice day!

 

[Augustus]

Just letting you know though

The mummy was forensically tested by Professor Pierre-Fernand Ceccaldi, the chief forensic scientist at the Criminal Identification Laboratory of Paris. Professor Ceccaldi determined that: "Hair, astonishingly preserved, showed some complementary data — especially about pigmentation: Ramesses II was a ginger haired 'cymnotriche leucoderma'." The description given here refers to a fair-skinned person with wavy ginger hair.

Have a nice day!

No, he was BIPOC as Egyptians are from the Middle East and are thus Arabs and so he would have been a dark-skinned Arab like Jesus and it's only racist Scots who portray him as a ginger and he's wearing a hat in the statue so his ginger hair is obviously just one of these:

 

[Harel13]

Impossible. Redhead ≠ Greatness. Something must be wrong with the forensic devices.

 

[Secret Chief]

Impossible. Redhead ≠ Greatness. Something must be wrong with the forensic devices.

I could never worship a ginge.

 

[ChristineM]

Maybe, just maybe his hair was associated with the sun.

 

[Brickjectivity]

Was the hair attached to the mummy's head or found separately such as in a jar? That sounds strange, but parts of the mummies have been found kept in jars. Various parts have. Also Egyptians used to shave off all of their hair. Generally pharoahs would have from what I have heard.

 

[Rival]

Was the hair attached to the mummy's head or found separately such as in a jar? That sounds strange, but parts of the mummies have been found kept in jars. Various parts have. Also Egyptians used to shave off all of their hair. Generally pharoahs would have from what I have heard.

It was intact on the mummy. The Ancient Egyptians are generally believed to have been multi-racial, ranging from very dark to very fair, such as one tends to find in North Africa and the Mediterranean to this day.

Sometimes hair was shaved, but in his old age I doubt he had much left to shave; he's said to have died in his early 90 or maybe late 80s.

 

[Rival]

Also, he really liked it... List of children of Ramesses II - Wikipedia

 

[Polymath257]

He also used henna to color his hair red when he got older and went white. He clearly wanted to look young.

There have been other ancient Egyptian mummies with red hair. One from pre-dynastic Egypt is even called 'ginger' for this reason. Some have also been found with blonde hair.

 

[Rival]

He also used henna to color his hair red when he got older and went white. He clearly wanted to look young.

There have been other ancient Egyptian mummies with red hair. One from pre-dynastic Egypt is even called 'ginger' for this reason. Some have also been found with blonde hair.

Reminds one of the Berbers.

 

[Revoltingest]

Reminds one of the Berbers.

It's obvious. In this period, Egypt
was ruled by invading Vikings

 

[Rival]

It's obvious. In this period, Egypt
was ruled by invading Vikings

That would explain the obsession with sunny weather.

 

[sun rise]

So much harassment in an interfaith discussion. Some folk need smiting.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Hasn't this been known for years? It's nothing new.

 

[Polymath257]

Hasn't this been known for years? It's nothing new.

For some reason, I thought we also knew about the hair color of Sesostris II, but I can't find a reference.

 

[Rival]

Hasn't this been known for years? It's nothing new.

Yeah, I was just bored lol.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Yeah, I was just bored lol.

Fair enough. I've known about this for years. Blonds and redheads naturally occur in multiple Middle Eastern populations. Obviously, there's been a lot of genetic admixture from various groups coming and going over many thousands of years, so their phenotypes are all over the place, mixing with the indigenous peoples (Indo-Europeans, central Asians, black Africans, etc.).