A programme a couple of years ago investigated this question, and tracked down a family who were apparently direct descendants of the people who lived in the area when Jesus lived there.

They were blue- and green-eyed, fair-skinned and brown-haired; the programme-makers then proceeded to show black-eyed, dark-skinned, black-haired people, voiceovering breathily: "So this is how Mary might have looked..."

In fact, since the Bible doesn't mention much about how he looked, he probably looked deeply ordinary.