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Deification and iconography
There is evidence which supports the view that ancient Egyptians often depicted human skin color faithfully in their artworks (e.g. in images associated with the Book of Gates, appearing on the murals of the tomb of Pharaoh Seti I and of Sennedjem in Deir el-Medina, and on murals of Ramses II's temples,  in Nubia). In most artistic depictions of Ahmose-Nefertari, she is pictured with black skin. In the early 20th century, Flinders Petrie spoke of "a black queen", Ahmose-Nefertari, who was the "divine ancestress of the XVIIIth dynasty". He described her physically as having "an aquiline nose, long and thin, and was of a type not in the least prognathous". In 1961 Alan Gardiner wrote of the paintings of Ahmose-Nefertari that she was "depicted for some unaccountable reason with a black countenance, but also sometimes with a blue one; if she was a daughter of Kamose she will have had no black blood in her veins." In 1974, Cheikh Anta Diop described her as "typically negroid." In the book Black Athena, Martin Bernal (grandson of Egyptologist Alan Gardiner) regarded her skin color in paintings as a clear sign of Nubian ancestry.