But Hanna told CBS News the facts from more than 2,000 years ago were less clear. "We do not know for sure whether Cleopatra was Black or White or even red, and we don't even know if she thought ...

So basically, when we talk about Black and white in antiquity, we're mostly talking about gender distinctions, not what we would call race today. So that's really one of the primary differences.

His use of “light-skinned” as the antithesis of Black is rich because Greeks identify as white. Zahi’s anti-Black rhetoric and the erasure of data that proves that Black Egyptians are a ...

The Egyptian antiquities ministry went so far as to issue a statement: Cleopatra, it said, was light-skinned, not ... ultimately, the question of whether or not you are black or white will, ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

The Egyptian government's Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities has responded to Netflix's documentary casting controversy, claiming that Cleopatra had "white skin." ...

“When we say, in general, that the ancient Egyptians were Black and, more specifically, that Cleopatra was Black,” Dr. Haley wrote, “we claim them as part of a culture and history that has ...

So basically, when we talk about Black and white in antiquity, we're mostly talking about gender distinctions, not what we would call race today. So that's really one of the primary differences.