Quote Originally Posted by Brynjolfr
(I don't think it has changed that much since the ancient times)
I'm not so sure about that, with all the migrations, slavery and settling of whole peoples in the meantime.

Just a few examples:
-todays population of spain and portugal has probably somewhat darker skin than before the centuries of moorish presence on the peninsula
-during the ottoman empire, many people descending from turkish tribes probably settled in former hellenic areas
-massive inflows of slaves for centuries. These had children and did not vanish with the end of slavery. I do not know where they came from in large numbers but I would guess that large contingents were darker or lighter than the ruling groups
-roman emperors hired large contingents of foreign soldiers and sent them to faraway places in the empire where some of them settled
-whole tribes relocating, like the goths in parts of spain

So I think to find out the skin colour in the EB timeframe one would have to disentangle all these effects which is probably close to impossible.

Or look for sources from the time like surviving texts, statues, mosaiques etc.