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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Kemet: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Kemet: [b]What are your opinions of his work? [/b][/QUOTE] Interview with Zahi Hawas: [URL=http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/rams/3audio5]http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/rams/3audio5[/URL] .ram <TRANCRIPT> Q: How would you describe your reaction to the views of Diop? ZH: Of course Cheikh Anta Diop was completely wrong. This was kind of a theory that he developed because of it doesn't mean, look at the features of the people, the Black, in Egypt today, their nose, their lips, is completely different from the Negro and therefore CA serie, he did it I think in a time to please the African Americans, who really feal that they are a minority, and they want to be connected with this place, this civilization like Egypt. After CA Diop did make his theory, there was a conference was made by UNESCO and the recommendation at the end of the conference that this was not accepted, and they said they need more work on prehistoric time to understand more the origin of the people. Q: So how would you define the ancient egyptians they were people who came here who were indiginous to the area... ZH: I believe those people settled in the Nile Valley since the old stone age more than 100,0000 BC, and they settled by the nile, those people who went to the desert to hunt wild animals to make their own tools and to invent fire and they really always comes to the Nile. Then they looked at the Nile and they used this source to make this great civilization and if you look at their religious belief, it's unique. From the pre-dynastic period, they found out for a king to be a god, they have to do certain things in his life. Build a tomb, temples for the worship of the gods, smiting the enemies of egypt, unification of the two lands, giving offering to the gods, if you did that, you will become a god. Therefore I say all the time that pyramids built egypt. Because building the tombs, made the egyptians to create technology and astronomy and art and architecture. Q: So how do you react to people who say that Egypt is an African civilization? ZH: I really don't believe that Egypt is an African civilization. I believe that the Egyptians, Egyptian civilization were unique. Egypt is in Africa, but the Egyptian civilization has nothing to do with the african cultures. Because of many, many features. If you look at the pharaonic period, it's completely different from anything. If you look at the production or technology that the egyptians left, it's completely different from any belief in any time. If you look at the egyptian from the anthropological point of view, they are different from the African. And that is why I believe that pharaonic egypt is completely unique, and they have no connection with the Africans, or even with the Arabs. Completely independent. And this is why, even today, egyptians are egyptians, the .... doesn't mean that we can speak arabic, that we can be arabs. We are really, I feel personally, that we are related even today, to the pharaos. </TRANSCRIPT> [/QB][/QUOTE]
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