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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Archeopteryx: [qb] Yes, the idea of African Olmecs was invented by Europeans, but today no serious scholar (European or otherwise) upholds that idea, just some Afrocentric extremists and some other fringe people. African Olmecs are not a part of modern academic scholarship. I know some people who actually work as archaeologists in Mesoamerica (and other parts of America) and they just laugh at the at the thought that there are people still upholding that old myth.[/qb][/QUOTE]That idea was still supported by various European scholars right up to the 90s and 2000s. And it mostly got abandoned in the era of DNA research. And there are still folks who believe in bigfoot on social media as well. So just claiming that some random individuals on the internet represents "African scholarship" is the problem, because it doesn't. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Archeopteryx: [qb] As I showed there are Egyptians debating history, both Cleopatra but also other aspects of it. I just mentioned [i]Egyptian history Defenders[/i] on Twitter and the YouTube channel [i]Sekhmet[/i] which has a connection to them. They talk about Egyptian history and about Afrocentrism. Otherwise you can not know so much about what Egyptians, especially young people discuss or what interests they have. Or have you been there and been able to interview them? [/qb][/QUOTE]I literally just posted an actual Egyptian Egyptologist stating point blank that most Egyptians don't care about the ancient past. You just proved it in that most of these Egyptians are responding to the Cleopatra TV show but were not discussing the ancient Nile before that. But instead of addressing that obvious fact you turn and ask me whether I have been to Egypt. Does it matter? No. Becuase we are talking of social media and the biggest issue impacting what you see on social media is language. And unless you speak arabic and have the arabic locale set in your browser or operating system, you won't see the majority of content from Egyptian social media. The point is most Egyptians are discussing things related to their lives in the modern day and or more recent history after ancient Kemet. Again, the point here is that it was the Egyptian state either under the Ottomans or otherwise that gave away much of the ancient artifacts and allowed them to sit buried in the sand. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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