Hello /lit/ Can anyone recommend the best books to read about

>>9238343
Seconding, also, any book on Hipatia?

>>9238343
is that a black woman reading a scroll? alexandria was progressive as fuck.

>>9238512
You didn't expect the middle east the northem africa to be full of aryans did you?
It looks like a guys arm btw.

>>9238778
>You didn't expect the middle east the northem africa to be full of aryans did you?
They were literally aryans, kill yourself history editing cuck.

"Rise and Fall of Alexandria" by Justin Pollard is pretty good

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>>9238778
Does this man look black to you?

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>>9238442
Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria by Ki Longfellow is super interesting and Remembering Hypatia: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
by Brian Trent is also good

>>9239565
>His mother was of Spanish descent and could only hear out of her left ear.[8] His father, Lucien, a poor agricultural worker of Alsatian descent

>>9239565
>pied noirs existing back then