Nota Bene: More Proof for Cheikh Anta Diop's Scientific Effulgence
Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt (2011)
To Mary Lefkowitz and other Eurocentrists and Afropessimists, YES, it is still Out of Afrika!
It is coincidental that I had just finished an interview yesterday during which I discussed my Pluridisciplinary work patterned after that of The Great Cheikh Anta Diop when I came home and received a copy of the brand new book, Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt (Bear and Company, Rochester, New York, 2011), by Robert Bauval and Thomas Brophy, which, I hope, will finally put to rest the pernicious charge that African-centered scholarship is a "feel good," "romanticizing" exercise. Employing archaeological, anthropological, climatological, geological, and genetic research tools for four decades, Bauval and Brophy provide new empirical archaeoastronomical and hieroglyphic evidence that supports The Great Cheikh Diop's theory of the Black Afrikan origin of Egyptian Civilian---consequently, Greek and other European civilizations.
As Bauval and Brophy put it in their Introduction, "We came across...inherent bias and prejudice against African origins of the Egyptian civilization in the debate---more of an auto-dafe'---against the Black African professor Cheikh Anta Diop, who, in 1954, published his thesis, Nation negre et Culture, which argued a Black African origin for the Egyptian civilization. Anta Diop was both an eminent anthropologist and a highly respected physicist, and as such, he was armed with an arsenal of cutting-edge science as well as the use of the latest technology in radiocarbon and biochemistry to determine the skin color of ancient mummies and corpses by analyzing their content of melanin, a natural polymer that regulates pigmentation in humans....We can now say with much evidence-driven conviction that [ancient Egyptian civilization] origins have their genesis with a Black African people" (2011:1-2).
Robert Bauval, author of The Orion Mystery , published in 1994 and becoming a number-one best-seller translated in 25 languages, and his research has been featured in documentaries throughout the world, is an Egyptologist who lives in Torremolinos, Spain. Thomas Brophy, an astrophysicist who has worked with NASA, including as a member of the Voyager II spacecraft instrument teams, is the author of several books, including The Origin Map, and numerous published articles in scientific journals, lives in Encinitas, California.
In Peace Always,
Abdul Karim Bangura/.
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