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No. Matthew's Gospel actually uses the word 'magi', although in modern usage this is generally translated as 'wise men'. The magi were hereditary priests of the Persian religion and always came from the same Iranian tribe. If there were indeed magi who came to visit the baby Jesus, they would all have looked much like Iranians today, although Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the world's Anglicans, has described the story of the three wise men as nothing but a "legend" and says there is little evidence that they existed.

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