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[THE AFRICAN ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION <br> Myth or Reality] 1. The Sphinx, as the first French scientific mission found it in the nineteenth century. This profile is neither Greek nor Semitic: it is Bantu. Its model is said to have been Pharaoh Chephren (circa 2600 в.с., Fourth Dynasty), who built the second Giza pyrami...	THE AFRICAN ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION <br> Myth or Reality		[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_1" ]	1	322
[Cheikh Anta Diop] Translated from the French by MERCER COOK LAWRENCE HILL \& COMPANY New York - Westport This book consists of selections from nations nègres et culture, first published by Présence Africaine, Paris, 1955. antériorité des civilisations nègres: Mythe ou Vérité Historique?, first published by Présence...	Cheikh Anta Diop		[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_2", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_3" ]	2	1,327
[Table of Contents] TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE ..... ix PREFACE The Meaning of Our Work ..... xii CHAPTER I What Were the Egyptians? ..... I CHAPTER II Birth of the Negro Myth ..... 10 CHAPTER III Modern Falsification of History ..... 43 CHAPTER IV Could Egyptian Civilization Have ..... 85 Originated in the Delta? CHAPTER V...	Table of Contents		[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_4", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_5" ]	2	1,253
[List of Illustrations] 1. The Sphinx Frontispiece 2. Handsome East African ..... 8 3. The God Osiris ..... 11 4. Lord Tera Neter ..... 12 5. Narmer (or Menes) ..... 13 6. Zoser ..... 14 7. Cheops ..... 15 8. Mycerinus and the Goddess Hathor ..... 16 9. Mentuhotep I ..... 17 10. Sesostris I ..... 18 11. Ramses II and ...	List of Illustrations		[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_6", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_7" ]	2	1,859
[Translator's Preface] To introduce Cheikh Anta Diop to English-speaking readers, we present, with the author's consent, ten chapters from his first published volume: Nations nègres et culture (1954), and three from his latest work: Antériorité des civilisations nègres: mythe ou vérité historique? (1967). For purposes...	Translator's Preface		[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_8", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_9", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_10", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_11", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_12", "african-origin-of-civilizat...	7	5,741
[PREFACE \| The Meaning of Our Work] I began my research in September 1946; because of our colonial situation at that time, the political problem dominated all others. In 1949 the RDA* was undergoing a crisis. I felt that Africa should mobilize all its energy to help the movement turn the tide of repression: thus I was...	PREFACE	The Meaning of Our Work	[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_15", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_16", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_17", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_18", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_19", "african-origin-of-civiliz...	10	7,549
[PREFACE \| The Meaning of Our Work] A visitor to Thebes in the Valley of the Kings can view the Moslem inferno in detail (in the tomb of Seti I, of the Nineteenth Dy- nasty), 1700 years before the Koran. Osiris at the tribunal of the dead is indeed the "lord" of revealed religions, sitting enthroned on Judgment Day, ...	PREFACE	The Meaning of Our Work	[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_15", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_16", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_17", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_18", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_19", "african-origin-of-civiliz...	10	5,418
[Meaning of Our Work] 9. In the second part of Nations nègres, we demonstrated that African languages could express philosophic and scientific thought (mathematics, physics, and so forth)* and that African culture will not be taken seriously until their utilization in education becomes a reality. The events of the pas...	Meaning of Our Work		[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_32", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_33", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_34" ]	3	2,005
[CHAPTER 1 \| What Were the Egyptians?] In contemporary descriptions of the ancient Egyptians, this question is never raised. Eyewitnesses of that period formally affirm that the Egyptians were Blacks. On several occasions Herodotus insists on the Negro character of the Egyptians and even uses this for indirect demonst...	CHAPTER 1	What Were the Egyptians?	[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_35", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_36", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_37", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_38", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_39", "african-origin-of-civiliz...	9	7,679
[CHAPTER 1 \| What Were the Egyptians?] The opinion of all the ancient writers on the Egyptian race is more or less summed up by Gaston Maspero (1846-1916): "By the almost unanimous testimony of ancient historians, they belonged to an African race [read: Negro] which first settled in Ethiopia, on the Middle Nile; follo...	CHAPTER 1	What Were the Egyptians?	[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_35", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_36", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_37", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_38", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_39", "african-origin-of-civiliz...	9	7,425
[CHAPTER 1 \| What Were the Egyptians?] He always distinguishes carefully between what he has seen and what he has been told. After his visit to the Labyrinth, he writes: There are two different sorts of chambers throughout-half under ground, half above ground, the latter built upon the former; the whole number of the...	CHAPTER 1	What Were the Egyptians?	[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_44", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_45", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_46", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_47", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_48", "african-origin-of-civiliz...	9	7,906
[CHAPTER 1 \| What Were the Egyptians?] Undoubtedly the basic reason for this is that Herodotus, after relating his eyewitness account informing us that the Egyptians were Blacks, then demonstrated, with rare honesty (for a Greek), that Greece borrowed from Egypt all the elements of her civilization, even the cult of t...	CHAPTER 1	What Were the Egyptians?	[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_44", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_45", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_46", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_47", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_48", "african-origin-of-civiliz...	9	7,887
[CHAPTER 1 \| What Were the Egyptians?] Insofar as Biblical evidence is concerned, a few details are in order. To determine the worth of Biblical evidence, we must examine the genesis of the Jewish people. What, then, was the Jewish people? How was it born? How did it create the Bible, in which descendants of Ham, ance...	CHAPTER 1	What Were the Egyptians?	[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_53", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_54", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_55", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_56", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_57", "african-origin-of-civiliz...	12	7,479
[CHAPTER 1 \| What Were the Egyptians?] It was to meet this crisis that Moses appeared, the first of the Jewish prophets, who, after minutely working out the history of the Jewish people from its origins, presented it in retrospect under a religious perspective. Thus he caused Abraham to say many things that the latter...	CHAPTER 1	What Were the Egyptians?	[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_53", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_54", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_55", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_56", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_57", "african-origin-of-civiliz...	12	6,232
[CHAPTER II \| Birth of the Negro Myth] When Herodotus visited it, Egypt had already lost its independence a century earlier. Conquered by the Persians in 525, from then on it was continually dominated by the foreigner: after the Persians came the Macedonians under Alexander ( 333 в.с.), the Romans under Julius Caesar ...	CHAPTER II	Birth of the Negro Myth	[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_95", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_96", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_97", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_98", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_99", "african-origin-of-civiliz...	11	7,737
[CHAPTER II \| Birth of the Negro Myth] Since history had disrupted his former equilibrium with the environment, the Black now found a new equilibrium, differing from the first in the absence of a technique no longer vital to the social, political, and moral organization. With economic resources assured by means that d...	CHAPTER II	Birth of the Negro Myth	[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_95", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_96", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_97", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_98", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_99", "african-origin-of-civiliz...	11	7,901
[CHAPTER II \| Birth of the Negro Myth] Master of the three roads, before you stands a man who has walked much. Master of the three roads, before you stands a man who has walked on his hands, walked on his feet, walked on his belly, walked on his backside, Since Elam, since Akkad, since Sumer. ^5 Elsewhere he writes: T...	CHAPTER II	Birth of the Negro Myth	[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_106", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_107", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_108", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_109", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_110", "african-origin-of-ci...	10	5,895
[CHAPTER III \| Modern Falsification of History] The problem of the most monstrous falsification in the history of humanity by modern historians could not have been posed better than Volney did. No one could have been abler than he to render justice to the black race by recognizing its role as mankind's pioneer guide o...	CHAPTER III	Modern Falsification of History	[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_123", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_124", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_125", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_126", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_127", "african-origin-of-ci...	10	7,889
[CHAPTER III \| Modern Falsification of History] I hastened to seek the tableau corresponding to this one in the other royal tombs and, as a matter of fact, I found it in several. The variations I observed fully convinced me that they had tried to represent here the inhabitants of the four corners of the earth, accordi...	CHAPTER III	Modern Falsification of History	[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_123", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_124", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_125", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_126", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_127", "african-origin-of-ci...	10	7,414
[CHAPTER III \| Modern Falsification of History] As a matter of fact, the Negro characters of the Ethiopian or Abyssinian race have been sufficiently affirmed by Herodotus and all the Ancients; there is no need to reopen the subject. The Nubians are the accepted ancestors of most African Blacks, to the point that the w...	CHAPTER III	Modern Falsification of History	[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_133", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_134", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_135", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_136", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_137", "african-origin-of-ci...	9	7,324
[CHAPTER III \| Modern Falsification of History] , manuscripts in which their genealogy is minutely traced since their departure from Yemen, testify to their origin. Moors are therefore a branch of those whom it is customary to call Semites, What will be said about the Semites later in this volume will dispel any possi...	CHAPTER III	Modern Falsification of History	[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_133", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_134", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_135", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_136", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_137", "african-origin-of-ci...	9	7,181
[CHAPTER III \| Modern Falsification of History] The confusion over the term Berber must be pointed out. This too is a word improperly applied to populations of the Nile Valley that have nothing in common with those properly called Berber and Tuareg. There are no Berber in Egypt. On the contrary, we know that North Afr...	CHAPTER III	Modern Falsification of History	[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_142", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_143", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_144", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_145", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_146", "african-origin-of-ci...	9	8,026
[CHAPTER III \| Modern Falsification of History] We see King Sesostris returning from an expedition against these Southerners; several captives precede his chariot. Farther on, the monarch offers the local gods two groups of prisoners evidently belonging to these savage tribes, an offering consecrated to the powerful p...	CHAPTER III	Modern Falsification of History	[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_142", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_143", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_144", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_145", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_146", "african-origin-of-ci...	9	7,592
[CHAPTER III \| Modern Falsification of History] The Negroes represented on Pharaonic paintings, so clearly delineated by engravers and named Nahasou or Nahasiou in the hieroglyphics, are not related to the Ethiopians, the first people to come down into Egypt. Were the latter then attenuated Negroes, Nubians? Lepsius's...	CHAPTER III	Modern Falsification of History	[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_151", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_152", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_153", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_154", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_155", "african-origin-of-ci...	11	7,885
[CHAPTER III \| Modern Falsification of History] , to that schematic stylization of figures which was perhaps to become the origin of writing. True enough, everyone does not agree on the date of those drawings found in numerous places in the Sahara and even in Hoggar (Algeria). Some view them as the expression of a Cap...	CHAPTER III	Modern Falsification of History	[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_151", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_152", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_153", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_154", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_155", "african-origin-of-ci...	11	7,552
[CHAPTER III \| Modern Falsification of History] That is not the whole story. Careful search reveals that German feminine nouns also end in t and st. Should we consider that Berbers were influenced by Germans or the reverse? This hypothesis could not be rejected a priori, for German tribes in the fifth century overran ...	CHAPTER III	Modern Falsification of History	[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_162", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_163", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_164", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_165", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_166", "african-origin-of-ci...	10	7,363
[CHAPTER III \| Modern Falsification of History] "Moreover, the Bible states that Mesraim, son of Ham, brother of Kush and of Canaan, came from Mesopotamia to settle, along with his children, on the banks of the Nile. ^38 Maspero fails to add that Ham, Canaan, and Kush are Negroes, according to that same Bible he is qu...	CHAPTER III	Modern Falsification of History	[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_162", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_163", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_164", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_165", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_166", "african-origin-of-ci...	10	7,654
[CHAPTER III \| Modern Falsification of History] After so solemn a confirmation of the Negro origin by an author whose intent was to destroy it, we see once again the impossibility of proving the opposite of the truth. Gaston Maspero, who became in 1889 the Director of the Cairo Museum, was a scholar to whom we are ind...	CHAPTER III	Modern Falsification of History	[ "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_172", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_173", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_174", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_175", "african-origin-of-civilization-complete.pdf_chunk_176", "african-origin-of-ci...	11	7,474

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