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2023-11-14 21:19:34 UTC - HELPFUL
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Hannibal may have been darker-skinned than a Roman, but he would unlikely have been black. Hannibal's ancestry is from the noble Barcid family, Carthaginians who were descended from Phoenicians, which means that they would be described as a Semitic people from the Near East https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/20/opinion/l-hannibal-of-carthage-was-no-more-black-than-king-david-337391.html https://www.thoughtco.com/was-hannibal-black-118902
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