Not only was she Macedonian but her family was notoriously inbred to maintain a lighter skin tone. It would be more historically accurate to show the VP of marketing for Bud Light.
Which, amusingly, is less Arab, and much more "Levantine"...
Arabs didn't exist as such. This is more than a semantic argument. Their whole conquest out of Arabia had yet to happen. Those kinds of conquests change demographics.
Thinking that ancient Egyptians would look like modern ones is a false assumption on its face. If it happens to be so then great. But people's appearance isn't that stable, particularly in the Middle East which has always been a crossroads.
It's hilarious that Jada Pinkett Smith is like 10 shades lighter skinned than this bush bitch they picked.
Btw this is what Egyptians look like.
Only ignorant liberals have this idea that literally every square foot of the African continent is full of charcoal black sub sarharan africans.
Also Cleopatra herself wasn't even Egyptian. She was a Greek descendant of Ptolemy from Macedonia.
Not only was she Macedonian but her family was notoriously inbred to maintain a lighter skin tone. It would be more historically accurate to show the VP of marketing for Bud Light.
And she was still avoiding any and all sun and bathing in milk to be super white.
That's what modern Egyptians look like, yeah...
For Ancient Egyptians, we're talking more like: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/3d-reconstruction-ancient-egyptian-mummies-180978786/
Which, amusingly, is less Arab, and much more "Levantine"...
And then there's Cleo herself, who, while clearly widely debated, perhaps looked something like in this article: https://allthatsinteresting.com/what-did-cleopatra-look-like
History has been rather kind, I would say.
Not exactly "Helen of Troy" material, anyway!
After all these years, I see Facegen in any context, and I still hear the first Oblivion dungeon track it plays during character creation.
Arabs didn't exist as such. This is more than a semantic argument. Their whole conquest out of Arabia had yet to happen. Those kinds of conquests change demographics.
Thinking that ancient Egyptians would look like modern ones is a false assumption on its face. If it happens to be so then great. But people's appearance isn't that stable, particularly in the Middle East which has always been a crossroads.