From the article: "People depicted in the portraits were upper-class, say curators."
They are literally pointing out that these are portraits of aristocrats, whom it is very well-known would likely be of non-Egyptian, if not mixed, origin at the time they were buried. No one is making a claim that this is what the average Egyptian looked like in the article.
Now if you still think its appropriate to argue that modern Egyptians represent a population replacement demographic, well, you're free to I guess, but I'd wager there weren't enough conquerors to replace the entire or even the majority of the population.
Also, Copts and Amazighe are also African, so "African shaped noses" is sorta weird to say, never mind the prominence of similarly shaped noses to Copts and Amazighe in Ethiopians and adjacent populations in the Horn of Africa. I know "what you mean" but what I mean is that we sorta eliminate a whole lotta physical and cultural differences when we talk about some essential unity of Africa lying in looking some particular way.
They are literally pointing out that these are portraits of aristocrats, whom it is very well-known would likely be of non-Egyptian, if not mixed, origin at the time they were buried. No one is making a claim that this is what the average Egyptian looked like in the article.
Now if you still think its appropriate to argue that modern Egyptians represent a population replacement demographic, well, you're free to I guess, but I'd wager there weren't enough conquerors to replace the entire or even the majority of the population.
Also, Copts and Amazighe are also African, so "African shaped noses" is sorta weird to say, never mind the prominence of similarly shaped noses to Copts and Amazighe in Ethiopians and adjacent populations in the Horn of Africa. I know "what you mean" but what I mean is that we sorta eliminate a whole lotta physical and cultural differences when we talk about some essential unity of Africa lying in looking some particular way.