{What do other scholars have to say about this persons statement on what ancient Egyptians and Israelites looked like?} On whether we know what ancient Egyptians and Israelites looked like Well, of course, we know something about what ancient Egyptians looked like because we have representations of them in visual art; and they were not black Africans, they were Caucasians — think of the statue of Nefertiti that everybody has seen in some reproduction. In the film, there are some black characters and they are servants, or probably slaves, and I suspect that thats historically realistic. Now, as far as the Israelites proper, we dont really have visual representations of them. I would guess that most of them were on the dark side of Caucasian. On the other hand, were told about David that he was either ruddy or a redhead, which would mean that he might have been very fair. npr.org/2014/12/22/372466263/we-ask-a-scholar-how-does-ridley-scotts-exodus-compare-with-the-bibles
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