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The only way to get an average color of the original Egyptian's faces would be by
1 Using the same light source color and intensity to photograph all wall paintings (prefer 6200 k color temperature)
2 Crop out every thing but the faces (exclude eyes, lips, teeth, eyebrows) ... and use a color temperature meter to average the color of the face. Average about 1000 faces and you would get an idea what the average Egyptian looked like.

"Canvas" Here I will use this word when I talk about the material that is being painted. It may be some clay product in jars, but about all statues and wall paintings have a stone canvas... they are simply painted on stone.
#1 The person in image 1 is not ivory white because that is the color of the statue, the person looks white ONLY because the canvas/material engraved is white.
#2 The canvas/material for this person is also white, but a few colors were added to make the eyes have more detail.
#3 There are parts of this picture colored to give detail while other parts (like the hair) are not painted and again keep the color of the canvas.
#4 This woman may be black, but only because the canvas/material is black, does this woman appear black.
#5 This image appears to be engraved in gold. Because the image looks gold, that is not the actual color of the guy's face, it is just the color of the canvas/material it is created from.

#6 The color of this guy's face is not actually gray, it is just the color of the canvas/material the image is made of.
#7 There are both statues and wall paintings of this woman. I don't know what kind of canvas/material the statue is made of, but in both statues and wall paintings, this Egyptian is very dark. Some times the canvas/material is in the ball park of the color of the person, but most of the time it is not. I can not think of any natural material with this color brown.
#8, #9 & #10 are said to be images of Tut.
A guy told me the white jar is an image of Tut, but I found a web page which stated the white jars are not Tut.
The point is #8 yellow, #9 white & #10 dark brown, there are supposed to be 3 statues of Tut, all a different color.
#8 There is no one with skin this yellow color and yellow lips. There is no stone material this color, this is not gold, so here it appears it has been painted yellow (this is not the gold mask of Tut). Unless it is a gold image, it is yellow paint.
#9 I assumed was a woman when I saw the red lip stick. Then a guy argued it was an image of Tut (in which a web page stated it is not). The image I saw was a lone image, not the cluster of 4. I also saw jars they put organs in and they were only jars with out any image on them.
#10 Is another statue of Tut. It is very dark brown. There are several dark brown statues and lots of wall paintings. The wall paintings are all of a brown face, but they are not as dark as the statues.
#10 There is no natural stone (I know of) that is this dark of brown, so it appears this color paint was used to copy the color of Tut's face.
The points here:
a) Unless the canvas is actually painted a particular shade of human skin colors ... when there is no paint on that canvas/material, that is not the color of the actual face of that person.
b) Some times even when a face is painted a color by intent, that may not be the actual color of that person's face... i.e. pictures of Egyptians with green faces.
While there may be some Egyptians almost white and others almost black, the average Egyptian was brown (unlike we Europeans).

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This picture (on the left side of the blue line) is 5 pictures of Nefertiti and one of a European queen. I included Nefertiti (1) because she is one of the lighter Egyptians and (2) by her facial features, she does NOT appear to be a Negro.
Because she has the lightest skin colors in Egyptians, I compared her with one of the lightest colors of Europeans.
I have seen other pictures of this European queen that gives her a little more color than this one. While the darker pictures of this European queen is many shades lighter than Nefertiti in any of her paintings or statues.
I assume this queen of Europe was very light to begin with and may have added white powder to her face (or the artist stretched the truth a bit). Egyptians, too wore make up so this is a variable to consider.
The two pictures (top left) are the very same picture. I just wanted you to see how skin color can appear different by the kind of lighting used (or maybe the person on one of these web sites, altered the colors)

On this picture (bottom left) are 3 women. One of them supposed to be Nefertiti. Note how much darker brown she is in the wall painting than in the famous statue.
To the right of the white European queen is supposed to be another picture of Nefertiti, again much darker than the statue at the top.
On the right side of the blue line ... This is a painted limestone statuette of Akhenaton, ruler of Egypt during the Amarna period, and his wife, Nefertiti.

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Of the numerous paintings and statues of Nefertiti, only one makes her almost "white" while all the rest displays her as being medium to dark brown.
NOTE the statue to the right of the blue line is painted on limestone. That means the artist had to purposely used this color of brown to paint her face.
Point, you can not just find one picture and say this is what the ancient Egyptians looked like. Not only do you have the different artist "interpretations", what kind of paint did each have available, what are the possible color changes caused by the elements, what was the lighting source and type film when these pictures were taken of the painting ... there are many variables.

 

 

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