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Diop states, “They gradually recognized it as the most ancient civilization that engendered. But imperialism begin what it is, it became increasingly “inadmissible” to continue to accept the theory -evident until then-of a Negro Egypt. The birth of Egyptology was thus marked by the need to destroy the memory of a Negro Egypt at any cost in all minds.
Here is what a white modern historian (Maspero) had to day about the previously accepted theory of a Negro Egypt.: “First, the 17th and 18th century travelers mislead appearance of certain mongrelized Copts, certified that their predecessors in the Pharonic age had a puffed up face, bug eyes, flat nose, fleshy lips. And that they represented certain characteristic features of the Negro race. This error, common at the start of the century, vanished once and for all as soon as French Commission had publish its great work.

Maspero continues: “On examining innumerable reproductions of the statues and the bas-reliefs, we recognized that the people represented on the monuments, instead of presenting peculiarities and the general appearance of Negro, really resembled the fine white races of Europe and Western Asia. At first glance, we feel that the artist has sought to reproduce an exact likeness, in the accurate portrayal of the head and limbs. Then brushing aside the nuances proper to each individual, we easily detect the general character and principle types of the race. One of them, thick-set and heavy, corresponds quite well to one of the prevalent types amongst the modern fellahs. Another depicting members of the upper class, shows us a man tall and slender with broad muscular shoulders, well developed chests, sinewy arms, small hands , slim hips, thin legs................His brow is square, perhaps somewhat low; his nose short and fleshy; his eyes large; and opened wide; his cheeks round; his lips thick but not exerted; his mouth stretched a bit too far, retains a resigned and almost painful smile. These features, common to most of the statues of the Old and Middle Empire, persists through all the epochs.


Here’s the research of another modern Egyptologist (Champollion the Younger), the so called “Father of Egyptology”. He states: “The opinion that Ancient Egypt belonged to the Negro African race is an error long accepted as the truth. Since the Renaissance, travelers in the east, barely capable of fully appreciating the ideas provided by Egyptian monuments in the important question, have help to spread the false notion and geographers have not failed to reproduce it, even on our day. A serious authority declared himself in favor of this view and popularized the error. Such was the effect of what the celebrated Volney published on the various races of men he had observed in Egypt. In his voyage, which is in all libraries, he reports that the Copts are descended from he Ancient Egyptians; that the Copts have a bloated face, puffed up eyes, thick lip, flat nose, like a mulatto, that they resembled the sphinx of the pyramids, a distinctly Negro head. He concluded that Ancient Egyptians were true Negroes of the same species as all indigenous Africans. To support his opinion, Volnely Invoked that Heroditus, who apropos, recalls that the Egyptians had black skin and woolly-hair. Yet these two physical qualities does not surface to qualify the Negro race and Volney’s conclusion as to the Negro Origin of Egyptian civilization is evidently forced and inadmissible.

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