Hi there, there is always more room for discussion on a topic such as this, but you may be interested in these previous posts on this topic. In any archived post, if you have follow-up questions, just tag the user like so: "hey /u/jschooltiger can you tell me more about ..."

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2i7obk/does_the_afrocentrist_argument_that_dynastic/

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2fcfll/were_ancient_egyptians_blackdarkskinned/

The short answer, no.

I know this has been asked several times in the past year with the rise of movements such as BlackLivesMatter and certain extremists of those movements make comments such as "ancient Egyptians were as black as the Kongo until the Greeks" which is completely inaccurate and wrong in so many ways.

To answer your question: The ancient Egyptians did not consider themselves white nor black, but something different. This can be seen through the records they left behind for us that have been preserved throughout thousands of years. Ancient Egyptians are fairly similar in complexion to the current Egyptians. The current Egyptians as well as most if not all Mediterranean ethnicities are darker now than they were 2500-3000+ years ago.

And by ancient Egyptians, I'm assuming you mean the Egyptians before Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in the late 300s BC. Ancient is a very vague term and has different meanings to different people. To give an example - many consider someone like Cleopatra VII (aka the Marc Anthony + Cleopatra) to be from "ancient times". However to Cleopatra the Pharaohs who made the great pyramids were ancient, much more ancient compared to her than we are to her today. And Cleopatra herself was the last of her dynasty to rule Egypt, which had "only" been around for the past 300 years of egypt's history. That was about the same period of time that the Persians before them were around.