For the original population of Egypt and the starters of some of the earliest civilizations people tend to not associate them with those accomplishments but attribute them to the current makeup of the population of those areas.
For example most of the early Pharaoh's mummies are of Amazigh corpses. It's to the point that some people think your racist when you point out that the Pharaoh's didn't look like sub-Saharan Africans and infact probably didn't look like any ethnic group currently alive except modern Amazigh. Why was they essentially written out of history books.
Hi there! You’ve asked a question along the lines of ‘why didn’t I learn about X’. We’re happy to let this question stand, but there are a variety of reasons why you may find it hard to get a good answer to this question on /r/AskHistorians.
Firstly, school curricula and how they are taught vary strongly between different countries and even even different states. Additionally, how they are taught is often influenced by teachers having to compromise on how much time they can spend on any given topic. More information on your location and level of education might be helpful to answer this question.
Secondly, we have noticed that these questions are often phrased to be about people's individual experience but what they are really about is why a certain event is more prominent in popular narratives of history than others.
Instead of asking "Why haven't I learned about event ...", consider asking "What importance do scholars assign to event ... in the context of such and such history?" The latter question is often closer to what to what people actually want to know and is more likely to get a good answer from an expert. If you intend to ask the 'What importance do scholars assign to event X' question instead, let us know and we'll remove this question.
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