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gaius on Jan 31, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: How a late-blossoming classics don became Britain’...

We have no reliable evidence regarding what proportion of Roman Britain was "black"

We do however know how far into Africa the Romans ventured (what is now Sudan) and what the ethnicity of the people living there was.

foldr on Jan 31, 2018 [–]

Beard addresses that point in her article. (Take home message: don't take lines on maps too seriously.)

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