DuPidh
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The Slavic migrations into the Balkans are an assumption, now? That's settled, as far as I'm concerned, based both on the historical record, genetics, and linguistics, and it's settled for virtually anyone who knows anything about any of those disciplines, except for some south Slavs who can't accept that their language is a late comer to the Balkans, as well as part of their ancestry.
So, I repeat, why would a Mycenaean necessarily look like a Slavic admixed Balkanite?
For your information, it took five seconds to find those pictures. Just google "Greek Americans". There was no cherry picking, and yes, they resemble him, within the limits of a computer generated picture, and the fact that some of them have lighter pigmentation. How you can supposedly come from the Balkans and not recognize that look is beyond me.
You have yet to name one feature that is so "exotic" and un-Greek like.
You know what, forget it. There's obviously some subtext here, so believe whatever you want, but there is nothing particularly Egyptian looking about that reconstruction. Maybe you should take a look at some Egyptian art or even modern crowd scenes from Egypt. Most Egyptians have quite a bit of SSA. There's nothing SSA about the Griffin Warrior reconstruction. Whatever resemblance exists is because both groups, Greeks and Egyptians both, have a lot of ancestry from the Mediterranean.
I have taken an introductory class of history of art. There we learned that the oldest Greek sculpture ever found is a copy of the Egyptian sculpture which are a lot older than Greek sculptures. Egyptians of antiquity believed that the spirit of a dead person needed a place to rest so they constructed sculptures. How did that first sculpture ended up in Greece? Either Greeks imported it from Egypt or Egyptians were broadening their in-habitat and brought with them their believes and art. So if the reconstruction of the face is accurate means that Egyptians migrated to present day Greece. The Egyptian haplogroups are also present in Greece. Greeks are a collection of Mediterranean people fused together by intermingling. To me the face looks Egyptian.