Archaeologists discover new evidence in Egypt indicating that Jesus Christ was black

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered new evidence suggesting that Jesus Christ was black after finding the earliest known image of the founder of Christianity from the Coptic Museum in Cairo showing him to be Negroid.

 

This newly discovered painting of Jesus found in Egypt is older than the image of the black Jesus Christ in the Church of Rome which dates back to the sixth century AD. It is the latest in a series of finding depicting Jesus as a negro and negating the common image portrayed which shows Jesus to be a blue-eyed, blonde Caucasian with flowing hair.

 

In August this year, a team of archaeologists from the University of Tel Aviv uncovered a collection of ancient scrolls in the West Bank region, near the Qumran Caves, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were originally uncovered in 1947. Their findings also indicated that Jesus Christ was a black man.

 

These Qumran documents which are believed to have been written by a small Jewish sectarian group, called the Essenes, retrace different elements of the Old Testament and New Testament similar to the Dead Sea Scrolls. The manuscripts that have been dated between 408 BC to 318 AD describe the son of Mary as of a darker colour of skin than his parents.

 

Professor Hans Schummer of the University of Tel Aviv, said: “It is quite revealing that the unknown author of the document notes with a certain sense of surprise that the infant’s skin tone is darker in colour than his mother and father. The infant was the colour of the night as in the dark of the night, nothing could be seen of the infant except the white of his eyes, reads an excerpt.

 

In the documents, there is also the mention of a peculiar character named Hamshet, who is described as the half-brother of Joseph. Hamshet is described as untrustworthy and ill-fated, denoted as suspicious and reviled by his brother Joseph who despises his wicked manners and lack of morals.

 

Archaeologist Natanya Jeborah of the University of Tel Aviv, added that Hamshet and the infant Jesus are described by a shepherd as sharing the same colour of skin, which Joseph does not take lightly. She said: In this account of the nativity of Christ, this is the first known description of Hamshet, the alleged half-brother of Joseph, with whom Joseph seems to have much contempt for some unexplained reason.

 

“Is it possible Hamshet was in fact the true father of Jesus? Although some elements may lead us to think so, without further proof we are left only with a plausible conjecture.”

 

Some apocryphal texts insist the father of Joseph had two wives but also a servant of African origin named Melcha. Although the names of Joseph’s siblings are not mentioned, he allegedly had four sisters and five brothers.