Reddit mentions of The Seventy Great Mysteries of Ancient Egypt

This is so ignorant I don't even know where to begin addressing this.

First of all - Egyptians have never been a fixed ethnic group. They were descended from the Nilotic people and ethnically mixed and even the ancient Egyptians were aware of this. They were culturally and religiously conservative but did not equate the Egyptian identity with an ethnicity - which is why there were black Egyptians and white Egyptians. They were extraordinarily mixed ethnically with Influxes of Africans, Nubians, Levantines, bedouins, Berbers, and Greeks. You can verify what I've said in this book. The ethnicity of ancient Egyptians is covered early on. You can also verify what I've said in the Teaching Company lecture series by professor Bob Brier. So basically "our DNA is literally different" is a Mickey Mouse comment. Egyptians are extremely mixed genetically and highly related to other Arab and North African groups.

Secondly, whilst the descendants of those groups define themselves today as Egyptians, there are still ethnic minorities in Egypt. Have you ever heard of Beja, Nubians, Berbers in Siwa, or magyarabs? These groups together number 2 million people. The number of tribal people in the sa3eed who identify by a tribe, like Hilalians, Banu Sulaym, and others, aren't even counted statistically. People like Abdel Nasser who are distantly descended from tribes aren't counted either because it's impossible to distinguish who has tribal ancestry anymore and who doesn't.

Tl:dr: the Egyptian identity is based on culture and nationality and not ethnicity. It's not even easy to distinguish Egyptians from their neighbours. I did a DNA ancestry test with 23andme and they offered me Yemeni and Lebanese background even though my family's been in Egypt for a minimum of 500 years. Even if you counted all Egyptians as being ethnically Egyptian despite their wide variety of features, skin tones, and ancestries, you can't say "every human being belongs to one ethnic group" given that Egypt is full of Nubians, Berbers, bedouins who identify as such today.


Edit: and if you really think Egyptians are a single ethnic group who's Dna is "literally different" from others then I invite you to travel from Alexandria to Luxor. Ya3ni a7a when did Egyptians fall into this idiotic master race bullshit?? What is this, 1930??