He may have stood about 5-ft.- 5 - in.
(166 cm) tall, the average man’s
height at the time.
While Cargill agrees that these more
recent images of Jesus—including
darker, perhaps curlier hair, darker
skin and dark eyes—probably come
closer to the truth, he stresses that we
can never really know exactly what
Jesus looked like.
Scientists have long looked to East
Africa as the birthplace of modern
humans. Until the latest findings from
Jebel Irhoud, the oldest known remnants
of our species were found at Omo Kibish
in Ethiopia. The oldest known skeletal
remains of anatomically modern humans
(or homo sapiens) were excavated at
sites in East Africa. Human remains
were discovered at Omo in Ethiopia that
were dated at 195,000 years old, the
oldest known in the world.
“What did Jewish Galileans look like 2,000
years ago?” he asks. “That's the question. They
probably didn't have blue eyes and blond hair.”