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Two hundred years ago, the “curse of Ham” was used to legitimize slavery. Both Ethiopians and Arabians claim the queen of Sheba, and it is thought that Moses and Jesus may have been black. Much has been said about the connection between Africa and the Bible. Unfortunately, despite numerous references to Africa and Africans in the Bible, most scholarly works exploring ancient Africa ignore...

The word Libyan, which is derived from the Libu tribes who lived west of Egypt, was used by the Greeks of non-Punic peoples living west of Egypt. After the Punic Wars both Greeks and Romans used “Libyan” solely of Africans living in Carthaginian territory. The most common name used by Greeks of black-skinned peoples living south of Egypt was Aithiops (lit., sunburned face). This name first appears in the Linear B tablets of the Mycenaean age (1400–1200 B.C.) as ai-ti-jo-qo (Aithioqus) (Pylos 133
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