Supporters of the Black theory saw the Aethiopians and Egyptians as racially and culturally similar,[50][73] while others felt that the ancient Egyptians and Aethiopians were two ethnically distinct groups.[74] This is one of the most popular and controversial arguments for this theory.[4][76] Snowden mentions that Greeks and Romans knew of "negroes of a red, copper-colored complexion...among African tribes",[77] and proponents of the Black theory believed that the Black racial grouping was comprehensive enough to absorb the red and black skinned images in ancient Egyptian iconography.[77] The British Africanist Basil Davidson stated "Whether the Ancient Egyptians were as black or as brown in skin color as other Africans may remain an issue of emotive dispute; probably, they were both.