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To: SunkenCiv

How can they determine her eye color

it stands to reason Med folks were more fair then than now

so we hear Ramses the Big Dude as a reddish blonde

or blonde blue eyed Alexander or Carthaginians as fair

before the Arab expansion


24 posted on 05/15/2013 9:42:04 PM PDT by wardaddy (wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
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To: wardaddy; SunkenCiv; All

This was almost 4,000 years before Alexander or Carthage, and almost 3,000 years before Ramases. It was almost 1,000 year before the unification of Egypt and the 1st Dynasty. I’m not sure why you think it “stands to reason Med folks were more fair” then. Alexander was from north of Greece. Besides, she looks like Ziva’s sister.


28 posted on 05/16/2013 12:36:03 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: wardaddy

you forgot about grey eyed Athena...


37 posted on 05/17/2013 8:04:50 PM PDT by LadyDoc
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To: wardaddy

Hair color and eye color is an educated guess. We have painted pictures of the ancient Minoans and it looked like they had white fair skin and dark hair and eyes and they lived about the same time as this woman did and near Malta.

Libyans and the ancient people of the Canary Islands had fair hair and skin. As for the Egyptian Pharoahs, a lot of that hair color reported is the effect of age on the mummies. Its anybody’s guess.


41 posted on 05/18/2013 7:36:20 PM PDT by ZULU ((See: http://gatesofvienna.net/))
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