Ping. To other history buffs if you can as well.
Like others have said, there was NOTHING of worth in Arabia at the time for any of the great empires to give a damn : Assyria/Babylonia and Persia. It was garbage then, it's garbage now.
And as to those pictures you posted. I personally know Persians and Assyrians (Chaldeans and Babylonians too, all family members but no one likes the Babylonians :) ) that are so fair skinned you would easily mistake them for certain European races. If it wasn't for the moslem invasion (God roast muhammed in HELL) and the interbreeding/rapine that followed you wouldn't be able to tell an Italian apart from a Persian.