 Herodotus states in a few passages that the Egyptians were black/dark.According to most translations, Herodotus states that a Greek oracle was known to be from Egypt because she was "black", that the natives of the Nile region are "black with heat", and that Egyptians were "black skinned with woolly hair".Lucian observes an Egyptian boy and notices that he is not merely black, but has thick lips.