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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Archeopteryx: [qb] One can wonder when very light people first can be seen in North Africa, like this girl: [IMG]https://i.ibb.co/gtgBvVq/Berber-woman-3.jpg[/IMG] Blonde haired Libyans are mentioned from more than 2000 years back The 3rd century BC cyrenaican poet Callimachus in his Hymns to Apollo talked about greek men dancing with yellow haired libyan women : [QUOTE]Greatly, indeed, did Phoebus rejoice as the belted warriors of Enyo [b]danced with the yellow-haired Libyan women[/b] , when the appointed season of the Carnean feast came round. But not yet could the Dorians approach the fountains of Cyre,28 but dwelt in Azilis29 thick with wooded dells. [/QUOTE] https://www.theoi.com/Text/CallimachusHymns1.html In the Periplous of the Pseudo-Scylax (4th century BC), he mentions blonde haired libyans known as the Gyzantes : [QUOTE]The Gyzantes Libyans live around it, a nation, with a city to the west. For these Gyzantes Libyans are said to be all blond and handsome. And this country is the best and most fertile, with huge flocks, and the richest [/QUOTE] https://topostext.org/work/102 [/qb][/QUOTE][QUOTE]Originally posted by BrandonP: [qb] There is [URL=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/710528]a Middle Kingdom tomb in Beni Hasan which purportedly shows a "Libyan" group[/URL]: [IMG]https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cms/10.1086/710528/asset/images/medium/fg13.gif[/IMG] [URL=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/na101/home/literatum/publisher/uchicago/journals/content/basor/2020/basor.2020.384.issue-1/710528/20201106/images/large/fg13.jpeg]Higher resolution here[/URL] If the identification is accurate, this might indicate a Middle Kingdom-era arrival for lighter-skinned Libyans. [/qb][/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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