I don’t think just the connections shows that they were a common feature over in Ancient Greece. It shows they were well known about, and no wonder since Greeks had plenty of contacts and even colonies over in sub-Saharan Africa, but not imo that there were plenty in Ancient Greece.

And burden of proof works exactly so that the one making the claim should provide evidence for it. I don’t think anything so far has done that, there’s just been a lot of off-topic stuff and proving connections and that sort of thing. But them being culturally connected wasn’t the claim, there being plenty in Acient Greece was.

I think this is such an emotional topic to some that it is easy to lose focus on the actual topic. But this particular chain has for me been just about that specific claim. You want me to “elaborate on my beliefs”? I don’t get it. I just wanted to see what source the other fella maning the claim had. That’s all