Posted on 12/21/2025 7:45:48 AM PST by SunkenCiv
A woman long believed to be the 'first Black Briton' was in fact white and had local ancestry from southern England, according to a new genetic study that overturns more than a decade of public perception.
For years, scientists believed the woman, known as the Beachy Head Woman, came from sub-Saharan Africa. Her remains were discovered near the cliffs of Beachy Head in East Sussex and were widely presented as early evidence of African presence in Roman Britain...
Her remains were first rediscovered in 2012 in Eastbourne Town Hall, stored in a box suggesting they were originally excavated in the 1950s. At the time, the well-preserved condition of the skeleton led to a facial reconstruction by Professor Caroline Wilkinson of Dundee University, whose assessment, along with two other specialists, supported the African origin theory.
That interpretation began to shift in 2017 when unpublished genetic data hinted she might have come from the Mediterranean, possibly Cyprus. The latest findings now clarify her origin as local to Britain, with researchers confirming she likely lived and grew up around Eastbourne...
Radiocarbon dating places her death between 129 and 311 AD during the Roman occupation. She was estimated to be between 18 and 25 years old and stood just over 4 feet 9 inches tall. A healed leg wound indicates she survived a significant injury, and bone analysis shows a diet rich in seafood...
Although no burial site or grave goods were found, researchers believe she may have had social standing, possibly connected to a Roman villa or trade networks in the region. Her lack of physical signs of labor supports this theory.
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Have we found the buried airplanes flown by the black Egyptian pharaohs yet?
🤔
😑
Didn’t they just put out a black Anne Boleyn flick?
Yes!
There was a time when my dream was to go to the UK and visit all the great archaeological sites.
Couldn’t pay me to now.
The whole place is 🦇💩 insane
I was watching Metatron talk and read several “scientific” articles about this very subject. Most accepted that the “researchers” had been wrong. The BBC accepted it as well, but avoided using the word “white” in describing the the DNA analysis.
The original “researchers” had used only the skull in deciding the woman was a black African, nothing else.
In the 2014 topic, the DEI hire was the first to ‘notice’ the affinity, and the skull had been examined by others before her — wonder of wonders, they’d missed it! 🤔
So Beachy was merely an average Caucasian. Peachy!
It won't matter. The morons who have only contempt for truth will make whatever claim suits their delusions, and the other morons will accept it without any resistance.
Meanwhile, those who value truth above all else will continue to soar far beyond them.
Truth is the secret weapon against darkness, delusion, evil, and misery!
Someone checked the ribs to determine gender, and was immediately sacked.
Well, if they were sacked, at least they were sacked by science experts.
Neither was Valkyrie.
Oh good grief.
Not them too!
( just waiting for a “ Black Irish” rewrite)
😜
And those responsible for the sacking have been sacked.
/Python flashback
Why should I care?
It is perfectly possible for sub-Saharan types in Brit. Although, I doubt any were black. Few along the Mediterranean are black — except for slaves imported northward by Moslem slavers.
Rome brought slaves with them. Raiders in the Med imported their slaves all along the Atlantic coast.
It looks like the myths of Black World Supremacy are starting to fall. They didn’t build America after all
Distant Cousin of Rachael Dolezal?
Oh ... wait ...
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