The historian Taticus mentioned the people of western Judea of his time being a race of Ethiopians. Ethiopians referred to all dark skinned african people as Aetiops mention burnt face and others referred to Ethiopians and Egyptians as wolly haired, thick lipped, flat nosed and burnt of skin , not the brown skin curly soft haired, thin nose Ethiopians of today but more like those Hamar people of the Omo valley