She was old. She was dark-skinned. As a young woman, she had been promiscuous and enjoyed sex. But after rejecting the world and spending 47 years living naked in the desert, Saint Mary of Egypt ...
If you've ever pictured the builders of Stonehenge or the legendary warriors immortalized in "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey," you've likely imagined them all to be white — but that probably wasn't the ...
The ancient Egyptians were black Africans. The Phoenicians (today's light-skinned Egyptians) are originally descendants of Lebanese traders from the Mesopotamia area. They began settling in Egypt ...
Most prehistoric Europeans had dark skin, hair and eyes well into the Iron Age, about 3,000 years ago, new research finds. Scientists found that the genes that cause lighter skin, hair and eyes ...