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According to Josephus:
“The children of Ham (note: Ham is the
archetypal ancestor Black people
according to Hebrew, Arabic and Jewish
faiths) possessed the land from Syria
and Amanus (modern Jordan), and the
mountains of Libanus (modern
Lebanon); seizing upon all that was on
its sea-coasts, and as far as the ocean,
and keeping it as their own.

The Black Arabs as
described in “Josephus’
Antiquities of the Jews”:
Josephus was a soldier, priest and
scholar who was born in 37 AD. His
written works are seminal in western
history and for many centuries were
some of the most widely read and
influential books of the western
civilization. In the paragraphs that
immediately follow, excerpts of
Josephus’ commentary on the Arabs and
near easterners who were
contemporary to his period are
reproduced.

See The Catholich Encyclopadia <
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08
522a.htm>

Some indeed of its names are utterly
vanished away; others of them being
changed, and another sound given them,
are hardly to be discovered; yet a few
there are which have kept their
denominations entire. For of the four
sons of Ham, time has not at all hurt the
name of Chus; for the Ethiopians, over
whom he reigned are even at this day,
both by themselves and by all men in
Asia, called Chusites. The memory also
of the Mesraites is preserved in their
name; for all we who inhabit this
country [of Judea] called Egypt Mestre,
and the Egyptians Mestreans.
Phut also was the founder of Libya, and
called the inhabitants Phutites, from
himself: there is also a river in the
country of Moors which bears that
name; whence it is that we may see the
greatest part of the Grecian
historiographers mention that river and
the adjoining country by the apellation
of Phut: but the name it has now has
been by change given it from one of the
sons of Mesraim, who was called
Lybyos. We will inform you presently
what has been the occasion why it has
been called Africa also.