Blue eyes in ancient Mesopotamia

The citizens from ancient middle east are considered to be a ‘dark race with dark hair and eyes’, however we can see so many blue-eyed Mesopotamian figures and depictions. Some says that Sumerians believed that blue eyes were a sign from Gods. Hebrew people associated light eyes with intelligence and dark eyes with ignorance. Some other people suggest that Sumerians might be a Caucasian race.

”…they (the Sumerians) certainly belong to the same racial division of mankind as the nations of Europe, they are scions of the Caucasian stock’’ - Arthur Keith (quoted in Ur Excavations, C. L. Woolley, 1927).

Another interesting theory says that ancient Mesopotamians wrote about the Planet where their Gods came from. Some enthusiasts of this theory believe that Sumerians described their Gods as white-skined, white-haired and blue-eyed …. https://www.facebook.com