 Snowden mentions that Greeks and Romans knew of "negroes of a red, copper-colored complexion...among African tribes", and proponents of the Black theory believed that the Black racial grouping was comprehensive enough to absorb the red and black skinned images in ancient Egyptian iconography.The British Africanist Basil Davidson stated "Whether the Ancient Egyptians were as black or as brown in skin color as other Africans may remain an issue of emotive dispute; probably, they were both.Their own artistic conventions painted them as pink, but pictures on their tombs show they often married queens shown as entirely black, being from the south