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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Archeopteryx: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Askia_The_Great I always found it crazy how ancient writers who would've lived during that time and would've seen Egyptians are boldly dismissed even in academia. Its to the point that historians like Herodotus are not just seen as "afrocentric" but are flat out vilified![/QUOTE]The debate about the credibility of ancient writers is an old one that is still going on. Also up here we have debates about for example Tacitus [i]Germania[/i] and how useful it really is for understanding the history, ethnography and demography of the ancient Germanic tribes. We once had a certain school of thought among Swedish historians (the so called Weibullian school) which was super critical towards ancient texts and dismissed many of them. The criteria they forwarded for assessments of those texts was rather hard and strict. Nowadays historians up here have a more tolerant attitude towards the texts and try to find useful information in them. When it concerns archaeologists some can be a bit uncritical about textual evidence while others do not trust claims in the texts that can not be corroborated by tangible archaeological findings. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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