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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Archeopteryx: [QB] Even if there are groups that are relatively dark skinned on the Arabian peninsula it seems there were still means to see the difference between them and for example Axumites. Here is an example: [QUOTE] Failing to gain a hearing in Byzantium, Sayf made contact with the Lakhmid prince of al-Hira, Amr ibn Mundhir, who introduced him to the shah's court. He complained that his country had been taken over by "ravens," that is, blacks. From Abyssinia or Sind, Khusraw wanted to know. Abyssinians, he was told. "And I have come to you for help and that you may assume the kingship of my country." Though he composed a poem "in the Himyarite language" in praise of the shah, he received no firm [/QUOTE](p 99) [QUOTE] When the Persian king heard of this (insurrection against his Himyarite client) he sent Wahriz with 4,000 Persians and ordered him to kill every Abyssinian or child of an Abyssinian and an Arab woman, great or small, and not leave alive a single man with crisp curly hair. Wahriz arrived and in due course carried out these instructions and wrote to tell the king he had done so. The king then gave him viceregal authority and he ruled under Khusraw until his death. [/QUOTE](p 100) [URL=https://tinyurl.com/yvuxf4j5]Muhammad and the origins of Islam[/URL] When it concerns Israelites there would probably have been variations in their looks. Maybe one can get help by looking at images in synagogues in the centuries AD, as Dura Europos or Huqoq. In the mosaics at Huqoq they paint Israelites in a somewhat middle brown complexion. Egyptians are painted in similar complexion. In one mosaic they contrast the lighter Israelites with darker foreigners who symbolize one of the different peoples who were involved in the building of the Tower of babel. The Mosaic also depicts the division that came about at that time. [IMG]https://i.ibb.co/Qnd2RFD/Fighters-synagogue-sm.jpg[/IMG] This image could be a symbol of racial splits that later were to come about. Maybe it even could symbolize some of the more heated discussions here on ES One can mention that Egyptians were depicted like this in Huqoq, not lily white but not very dark either: [IMG]https://i.ibb.co/NxDQg34/Red-Sea-Huqoq.jpg[/IMG] It is intresting that this carpenter from Huqoq bears resemblances with a well known facial reconstruction of Jesus based on three different skulls from his time (and place). [IMG]https://i.ibb.co/2N6Z2MF/Timber-man-300s-Synagogue.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.ibb.co/4tMjNNZ/Man-from-Jesus-time-sm.jpg[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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