The following is supporting evidence from
The African Origin of Civilization: by: Cheikh
Anta Diop
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Evidence from Physical Anthropology
The skeletons and skulls of the Ancient Egyptians clearly reflect they
were Negroid people with features very similar to those of modern Black
Nubians and other people of the
Upper Nile and of East
Africa.
- Melanin
Dosage Test
Egyptologist Cheikh Anta Diop invented a method for determining the
level of melanin in the skin of human beings. When conducted on Egyptian
mummies in the Museum of Man in Paris, this test indicated these remains
were of Black people.
- Osteological
Evidence
"Lepsius canon," which distinguishes the bodily proportions of various
racial groups categories the "ideal Egyptian" as "short-armed and of
Negroid or Negrito physical type."
- Evidence
From Blood Types
Diop notes that even after hundreds of years of inter-mixture with
foreign invaders, the blood type of modern Egyptians is the "same group
B as the populations of western
Africa on the Atlantic
seaboard and not the A2 Group characteristic of the white race prior to
any crossbreeding."
- The
Egyptians as They Saw Themselves
"The Egyptians had only one term to designate themselves =kmt= the
Negroes (literally). This is the strongest term existing in the
Pharaonic tongue to indicate blackness; it is accordingly written with a
hieroglyph representing a length of wood charred at the end and not
crocodile scales," singular. ‘Kmt’ from the adjective =kmt= black; it
therefore means strictly Negroes or at the very least black men. The
term is a collective noun which thus described the whole people of
Pharaonic Egypt as a black people."
- Divine
Epithets
Diop demonstrates that "black or Negro" is the divine epithet invariably
used for the chief beneficent Gods of Egypt, while the evil spirits were
depicted as red.
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Evidence
From the Bible
The Bible states"…[t]he sons of Ham
[were] Cush and Mizraim [i.e. Egypt], and Phut, and Canaan. And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah and
Sabtechah." According to Biblical tradition, Ham, of course, was the
father of the Black race. "Generally speaking all Semitic tradition
(Jewish and Arab) class ancient
Egypt with the countries of the Black."
- Cultural
unity of Egypt With The Rest of Africa
Through a study of circumcision and totemism. Diop gives detailed data
showing cultural unity between Egypt and the rest of Africa.
- Linguistic
Unity With Southern and Western Africa
In a detailed study of languages, Diop clearly demonstrates that Ancient
Egyptian, modern Coptic of Egypt and Walaf of West Africa are related,
with the latter two having their origin in the former.
- Testimony of
Classical Greek and Roman Authors
Virtually all of the early Latin eyewitnesses described the Ancient
Egyptians as Black skinned with wooly hair.
After the conquest of Egypt by
Alexander, under the Ptolemies, crossbreeding between white Greeks and
black Egyptians flourished.
"Nowhere was Dionysus more favored, nowhere was he worshiped more
adoringly and more elaborately than by the Ptolemies, who recognized his
cult as an especially effective means of promoting the assimilation of the
conquering Greeks and their fusion with the native Egyptians." {Endnote
15: J. J. Bachofen, Pages choisies par Adrien Turel, "Du Regne de
la mere au patriarcat." Paris: F. Alcan, 1938, p. 89.}
These facts prove that if the
Egyptian people had originally been white, it might well have remained so.
If Herodotus found it still black after so much crossbreeding, it must
have been basic black at the start.
Before examining the
contradictions circulating in the modern era and resulting from attempts
to prove at any price that the Egyptians were Whites, let us note the
comments of Count Constantin de Volney (1757-1820). After being imbued
with all the prejudices we have just mentioned with regard to the Negro,
Volney had gone to Egypt between 1783 and 1785, he reported the Egyptian
Race is the very race that had produced the Pharaohs: the Copts (p.
27).
“All have a bloated face,
puffed up eyes, flat nose, and thick lips; in a word, the true face of the
mulatto. I was tempted to attribute it to the climate, but when I
visited the Sphinx; its appearance gave me the key to the riddle. On
seeing that head, typically Negro in all its features, I remembered the
remarkable passage where Herodotus says: "As for me, I judge the Colchians
to be a colony of the Egyptians because, like them, they are black with
woolly hair. ..." We can see how their blood, mixed for several
centuries with that of the Romans and Greeks, must have lost the intensity
of its original color, while retaining nonetheless the imprint of its
original mold. We can even state as a general principle that the face is a
kind of monument able, in many cases, to attest or shed light on
historical evidence on the origins of peoples. {End quote}
When Egypt was invaded by Arabs - Egypt suffered turbulent times
when, in 609 AD, the country had sided with Nicetas, a lieutenant of
Heraclius, in the rebellion against the emperor Phocas. Only shortly after
Heraclius overthrew Phocas, the Byzantines were attacked by the Persians.
The armies of the Sasanid King Khosrau II invaded Egypt, inflicting cruel
suffering upon its some of its inhabitants. This Persian occupation lasted
six years.
African Antiquity
In the Beginning...
Narmer
(Menes)
The
1st Pharaoh of Egypt
(Fig 5 - Diop Cheikh Anta,
The African Origin of Civilization, 1974)
King Aha-Mena-Narmer is known by millions of people by the Greek-distorted
"version" of his name: King Menes. Notice the African features from his
high chick bones, flat nose and thick lips. The Kufi/Crown upon his head
is a sign of royal authority.
King Aha-Mena-Narmer is the founding King of the first Ancient Egyptian
dynasty. He also become the first Emperor of Kemet by unifying Upper and
Lower Egypt into one imperial federation, along the Nile Valley. From its
Central-Eastern Kilimanjaro Mountains sources to the Mediterranean Sea
Delta, the Ancient Egyptian Empire gave birth to the world's first
civilization.
Since then, the imperial heritage has been carried on, from dynasty to
dynasty and from generation to generation. Extensive territory is nothing
new to African Kings and Emperors: it is simply a matter of historical,
cultural and imperial continuity.
African history and culture trace their roots back to that pharaonic
period, the ultimate source of African humanities. The same way the
European/Western world traces its history and culture back to Greece and
Rome. African human sciences, finally reconciled with its Ancient Egyptian
sources, can retrace the entire history of the Nation, step-by-step.
On this immemorial timeline, the enslavement and colonial periods suffered
by African people can be considered as little parenthesis. Yet, the
terrible impact of colonial bound mis-education and cultural conditioning
affects many people, Blacks and Whites alike. Consequently, innocent
victims of "schooling" who have lost their historical memories, now find
it hard to believe that, Black people actually played the earliest
civilizing role in the world. That misleading education has damaged the
minds, self-esteem and behavior of many people across racial lines:
"The History of humanity will remain
confused as long as as we fail to distinguish between the two early
cradles in which nature fashioned the instincts, temperament, habits and
ethical concepts of the two subdivisions before they met each other after
a long separation, dating back to prehistoric times..."Cheikh Anta Diop
Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop, in his “L’Antiquité Africaine Par L’Image” (Notes
Africaines No Special 145) drew two important conclusions:
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Humanity born at the latitude of
the African Great Lakes, near the Ecuador is by necessity pigmented
(black) and African. This is substantiated by Gloger’s Law which states
that warm blooded beings are pigmented in hot and humid climates”.
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All races are issued from the
African race by direct relationships and, the other continents were
peopled from Africa at the Homo erectus stage, as well as the Homo
sapiens stage, which appeared about 150,000 years ago.
It has been finally proven that, for
a time period beginning 5 million years ago up until the glacial thaw
(10,000 years ago), Africa almost unilaterally peopled and influenced the
rest of the world.
Dr. Leakey, one of the world's most reputable paleo-anthropologist, in his
serious work “Progress And Evolution Of Man In Africa”, reminds us that:
“The critics of Africa forget that men of science are today satisfied
that, Africa was the birthplace of man himself”. Human beings are Africa’s
first contribution to humanity.
Advanced research and several studies in prehistory and paleo-anthropology
have confirmed the similarities between the original founders of the
pharaonic civilization (ancient Nubians, Ethiopians and Egyptians) and the
modern day Africans.
Rawlinson concludes in “Origins Of Nations” that: “The authors of Genesis
unites together as members of the same ethnic family the Egyptians, the
Ethiopians, the Southern Arabians, and the primitive inhabitants of
Babylon”.
According to many ancient testimonies, the inhabitants of Sudan, Egypt,
Arabia, Palestine, Western Asia and India were Ethiopians, therefore
Africans. Back in that era, there were two lands called Ethiopia. Sir
Godfrey Higgins (Anacalypsis, vol.1) declared: “One on the east of the Red
Sea, and the other on the west of it; and a very great nation of Blacks,
from India, did rule almost over all Asia in a very remote era, in fact
beyond the reach of history of any of our records”.
Herodotus who was initiated within the Ancient Egyptian mystery system
declared that:” The uniform voice of primitive antiquity spoke of the
Ethiopians as one single race, dwelling along the shores of the southern
ocean, from India to the pillars of Hercules”. (Herodotus, vol.1 book I)
Greece: An Average Student of Ancient Egypt
Dr. Theophile Obenga, in this magisterial book "African Philosophy in
World History" (Obenga,1998), successfully challenges and neutralizes the
Hegelian philosophy of history, continuing in the footsteps of Dr. Cheikh
Anta Diop, his mentor. Hegel alienated the Caucasian mind by stating with
ignorance that "Africa has no history". That mis-education of the
Caucasians led to arrogance with an unfounded racial superiority belief
system.
The seven liberal arts and sciences, which are grammar, rhetoric, logic,
arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy, come out of Africa. Therefore,
to the Ancient Egyptians, and neither to the Greeks, nor to the Romans,
are we indebted for the present body of human knowledge. Greece and Rome
were average students in Ancient Egypt. Considered foreigners and
childish, Greek students were unable to access a complete initiation and
induction within the Ancient Egyptian Mystery System.
Aristotle of Stagira, Thales of Miletus, Pythagoras of Samos, Diodorus of
Sicily, Plato and Strabo were all initiated in Ancient Egypt, from a very
young age until adulthood. Their eyewitness accounts reflect the fact that
they were taught and instructed by dark skinned teachers born and raised
in Africa. Greed, prestige and reputation made most of them ungrateful,
when they claimed all the theories and theorems, formulas and axioms they
learned in Ancient Egypt for themselves. Most Greek and Roman students of
Africa committed plagiarism by signing their names on their African
teachers writings, inventions,
creations and productions.
Thus, we now have: "Theorem of Pythagoras", "Thales'Axiom" among many
illegal appropriations of the African sciences of geometry, mathematics,
architecture, rhetoric and philosophy. Those operative sciences have been
invented and implemented in the heart of Africa, thousands of years before
the Greeks and Romans came into existence as a distinct race!
That saga continues today with the renaming of African scientific papyri
such as the "Rhind Papyri" and the "Moscow mathematical Papyri". Those
Papyri and their scientific content were produced and elaborated thousands
of years before Rhind's people were born. Eastern Europe was still under
the ice-age with barbaric people. Moscow, nor any of its founders, were
even in existence at the time.
Since mankind originated first in Africa, it was necessarily black before
becoming white through mutation and adaptation, at the end of the last
ice-age in Europe. Scholars both ancient and modern have finally come to
the conclusion that, the African people created the world first
civilization. Our ancestors did rule the world from its seats of power,
enthroned from the valley of the Granges, the Tigris and Euphrates, to the
Nile and Niger Rivers.
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