There's a great "blackwashing" of European history currently taking place that attempts to convey the Orwellian lie that Europe has always been full of black and brown people.
Old man, "London sure has changed over the years."
Young man, "London has always looked like this!"
TV and movies, as you mentioned, now show blacks as part of everyday life in historical Europe, from "Bridgerton" to the "Vikings" sequel. Farcical "scientific" studies show ancient Scandinavians to have been dreadlocked blacks. And now this claptrap.
Heh, they tried making ancient Egypt black, and the Egyptians, rightly so, were having none of it.
There have been blacks pushing that trope for years.