• neptune@dmv.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    The joke is more about Americans thinking a bronze age man in the middle east looking like a white American or European.

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      The Iron Age(s) started several hundred years before the Roman conquest of Judaea.

      The Hittites in Anatolia, basically next door to the area, were among the first to discover iron working.

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      1 year ago

      Chalk it up to great marketing.

      Allegedly based on a portrait of a Borgia for their imaginary savior, white-washing him. Much more palatable for the xenophobic religious zealots.