Procopius was a Byzantine historian from the 6th century AD. It is clear to him that the Moors were black-skinned
Procopius, in his book History of the Wars, described the Moors as black-skinned
“I have heard this man say that beyond the country which he ruled there was no habitation of men, but desert land extending to a great distance, and that beyond that there are men, not black-skinned like the Moors, but very white in body and fair-haired…”
SOURCE >>> Procopius: History of the Wars, Books III and IV (Vandalic War)" by Procopius, with an English translation by H. B. Dewing (1916) Havard University Press page 321/323
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Procopius_History_of_the_wars_Books_III/szQjAQAAMAAJ?gbpv=1
Posted Feb 22, 2026, 5:05 PM UTC
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