As a result, ancient Egyptian artifacts provide sometimes conflicting and inconclusive evidence of the ethnicity of the people who lived in Egypt during dynastic times. In 1839, Champollion states in his work Egypte Ancienne that the Egyptians and Nubians are represented in the same manner in tomb paintings and reliefs.ince the 1970s, the issues regarding the race of the ancient Egyptians have been troubled waters which most people who write (in the United States) about ancient Egypt from within the mainstream of scholarship avoid.