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.
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.