A picture commanded to be made of Jesus by Tiberius Ceasar. Appearently a recreation, but still in the Library of Congress so probably accurate
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/90707066/Esau, the twin brother of Jacob, who birthed the Israelites is described as
>25The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esaured hair, a trait usually found in whites mostly. If Esau was white his twinbrother was too.
>7Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires. 8But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stickSo first they were white, then something happened, likely the captivity where they were brought away, and were replaced by dark people.
https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1003316>We reconstructed the genetic structure of the Levantines and found that a pre-Islamic expansion Levant was more genetically similar to Europeans than to Middle Easternershttps://penelope.uchicago.edu/josephus/ant-12.html>And when he had given them [Jews/Descendents of the high priesthood] leave, they also hid the circumcision of their genitals; that even when they were naked they might appear to be Greeks. Accordingly they left off all the customs that belonged to their own countrey, and imitated the practices of the other nations.so the ancient Judahites/Levites (when its about the descendents of the priesthood probably) looked just like the greek
