Yurco held a position at the University of Chicago’s Regenstein Library until 2002, when he was diagnosed with ALS, where he tragically died from the ailment.
He continued that the mummified remains, anthropological records and other tests indicate that Egyptians varied greatly in complexion from a light Mediterranean, to a darker brown in upper Egypt, and even to the Nubians.
[4] Frank J. Yurco specifically outlined in a 1989 article that: "The ancient Egyptians, like their modern descendants, were of varying complexions of color, from the light Mediterranean type (like Nefertiti), to the light brown of Middle Egypt, to the darker brown of Upper Egypt, to the darkest shade around Aswan and the First Cataract region, where even today, the population shifts to Nubian."
"[5] In his entry in Black Athena Revisted (1996), edited by Mary Leftowitz & Guy MacLean Rogers, Frank Yurco would note that: "Two seminal studies of Egyptian skeletal material reported continuity from the ancient down to the modern population (Batrawi 1945, 1946).
Certainly there was some foreign admixture in Egypt, but basically a homogeneous African population had lived in the Nile Valley from ancient to modern times.”[6]