03-15-2017, 05:06 PM
I once attended a lecture on Equalities where the lecturer asked us about Cleopatra and chastised most the those present because their view, coloured no doubt by various film depictions, was that she was white. The lecturer said history had deliberately erased the fact that Cleopatra was black as were the other rulers of Egypt. I asked said lecturer what he based this on and did he know Cleopatra's lineage. He admitted he did not, he based this on the fact Africa was populated in the main by 'black people'. I had to inform him to go and read some proper history books and then perhaps reconsider his view!
Were the Moor's dark skinned during the time of the Roman Empire? Would Victor, one of Valen's Magister's have been able to marry the daughter of Queen Mave of the Saraceni if she had been dark skinned?
As to round houses, several years ago we had a bit of a drought down here in Kent where I live and in a field on a slope appeared a line of dark coloured rings which the local archaeology team subsequently investigated and found that the rings were the remains of round houses that appeared to have been destroyed in a fire, hence the dark rings. They had not been known previous to my spotting and reporting them.
Were the Moor's dark skinned during the time of the Roman Empire? Would Victor, one of Valen's Magister's have been able to marry the daughter of Queen Mave of the Saraceni if she had been dark skinned?
As to round houses, several years ago we had a bit of a drought down here in Kent where I live and in a field on a slope appeared a line of dark coloured rings which the local archaeology team subsequently investigated and found that the rings were the remains of round houses that appeared to have been destroyed in a fire, hence the dark rings. They had not been known previous to my spotting and reporting them.
Adrian Coombs-Hoar
