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Old 08-11-2011, 08:52 PM   #20
estheticianI

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Infact, Greeks took good account of folks' physical appearance. Some of the Near Easterners turned out to be - according to a Greek / or Greeks (can't remember who) - lighter skinned than the Greeks themselves: I'm referring of course to the Persians. Despite the fact in 300 Xerxes their ruler gets depicted as a swarthy homoerotic piercings flaming gay Tyrant (who in the end actually ended up annihilating them anyway).

Phoenicia was on that Levantine strip, correct? The area was mix and at a crossroads. A people called the Pelisti by the Phaorohs in ancient times thought to have been the 'Philistines' resided on the same area, and were depicted as this:



and Phoenicia would've been a former ancient Phaorohnic colony in the first place.

---------- Post added 2011-08-11 at 08:37 ----------

Besides that, the area has seen all kinds of traffic over the millenia, it's hardly like it's been a homogenous area -- there's been both Egyptian and Kushite influence throughout the whole of the mediterranean forever up until modern times.



---------- Post added 2011-08-11 at 08:39 ----------

Another image:

http://mishami.image.pbase.com/u14/c....Knossos33.jpg
It has been a homogeneous Caucasoid area through out all of times with a minor influx of north Africans. When looking at certain sub-ethnicities of parts of ancient Phoenicia such as Lebanon and the Maronites; you get a fully homogeneous Caucasoid people while the Sunnis have a minor African component.

Egypt and Kush never really had a influence over the Middle East. The Middle East influenced Egypt and Kush ever since Assyria conquered Egypt. The Middle East and Greece influenced Egypt, not vice versa.

Phoenician statues attached.
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