I will defer to Arthur Koestler on Egyptian history. He says the Egyptians had a method to show color of skin in their paintings,and they painted themselves as white, although they did not use, or have, evidently, white pain.
If I remember correctly, they used tan for themselves and black for Africans.
And some of the mummies had red hair.
“And some of the mummies had red hair.”
Vikings landed there too!!/s
I’m amazed at how much and how far ancient people traveled.
Read about a very rare gene that is found in a small population in the middle east and in India. Did some research and it turns out it’s theorized that it’s becuz a group of Zoroastrians walked out of the middle east to escape Mohamed’s death squads on Christians.