> Lots of greek & roman statues have lost their noses too.
Where "lots" is a much smaller percentage.
> you may be thinking that because Egypt is in Africa, its people in 2000BC were African in the colloquial sense of today.
I don't have to think this any more than I think every Roman emperor had perfect abs.
If (some) statue's noses were modelled after Black Africans, and (some) people took a conscious or subconscious dislike to this, then the consequences can be fast, or develop as a more general tradition over time, with multiple pseudo-academic cultural explanations.
Where "lots" is a much smaller percentage.
> you may be thinking that because Egypt is in Africa, its people in 2000BC were African in the colloquial sense of today.
I don't have to think this any more than I think every Roman emperor had perfect abs.
If (some) statue's noses were modelled after Black Africans, and (some) people took a conscious or subconscious dislike to this, then the consequences can be fast, or develop as a more general tradition over time, with multiple pseudo-academic cultural explanations.