>And with regard to that website, I would strongly encourage you to get all your information on ancient history from university-press publications instead of am

>And with regard to that website, I would strongly encourage you to get all your information on ancient history from university-press publications instead of amateur websites. There is just too much a risk of encountering crank material on websites, but as that website itself notes, there has been plenty published on this theme by actual scholars. I pointed to a given list and provided the source I got it from (nothing more, nothing less). Anyway: https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V1N4/thompson.html https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V1N4/thompson.htm... The Aethiops while not "common" did exist in Rome, different from "dark skinned" North Africans, and characterized by: >Petronius and the elder Pliny offer crucial information on Roman perceptions of Aethiopes and on the Roman concept Aethiops or 'black African' (Pet. Sat. 101f.; Pliny HN 7.51; cf. Mart. 6.39.6-9): first, mere blackness of skin did not suffice to ensure categorisation as Aethiops, for the categorisation depended on possession of the concomitant characteristics of black African hair, lips, and (according to Martial) nose;