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In general, the historical authors who spoke of the native Egyptian complexion called them black, Herodotus said the Colchians looked like the native Pharaonic Ancient Egyptians because they had μελάγχροές (melanchroes) “black-skin” and οὐλότριχες (oulostrixes) “woolly-hair”. (Herodotus, Histories, Book 2, Chapter 104 translated by George Rawlinson in 1858). https://ia802906.us.archive.org/19/items/historyofherodothero/historyofherodothero.pdf

Historical authors like Jerome of Stridon mentioned that the Colchians were Ethiopians. (De Vitis Apostolorum, I-VII, 957, 959). https://catholiclibrary.org/library/view?docId=Fathers-OR/PL.023.html;chunk.id=00000415;toc.id=PL.023.html.xml.00000089;brand=default&useLemma=

The Egyptian population changed ca. 3rd-1st century B.C when the Greek-Macedonian Egyptians over-occupied the country, Egypt after this era became mostly olive-skinned, although the country also was still inhabited by some black natives up until the Byzantine era as is mentioned by Ammianus Marcellinus and the author in the Acts of St. Afra.

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