Why Didn't They Tell You?

Egyptologists, Archeologists, Paleontologists, and Historians coming clean about Ancient Egypt

The featured image of this post shows Menes (also called Narmer) wearing the white crown of Upper (Southern) Egypt as the first Pharaoh of the Two Lands subduing Asiatics from the Delta (the most northern part of Egypt).

Paraphrasing what the great Egyptologist and renaissance man of letters Cheikh Anta Diop said in his masterful work African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality, until the Egyptologists, Archeologists, Paleontologists, and Historians come clean, we (the world) will not have an accurate understanding of the origins and evolution of world civilization and history, especially western civilization, until we correctly connect ancient Egypt with Africa. All of the above specialists want to start Egyptian history around 3,100 B.C., around the time that Mesopotamian civilization is said to have started. What does Egypt look like around 3,100 – 3,200 B.C.? Most importantly, it has achieved empire status with the conquest of much of what is now Lower Egypt giving it an empire that extends at least from the apex of the Nile Delta to the first cataract of the Nile River, a distance of about 700 miles and hundreds of miles wide. They had a system of writing, mathematics, and well-developed organizational skills needed to rule and administer such a large area. This was not a civilization that is in its infancy.

I turn to the eminent Egyptologist (some would say the greatest Egyptologist to ever live) Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie who said, “To suppose that the civilization we find under Menes [first Pharaoh of the Two Lands] started full-blown at that age, or to suppose that the dynastic conquerors of Egypt had no rulers before their acquisition of the whole country, is necessarily absurd. Before a king of Thinis-Abydos (from which Menes came) could possibly proceed to establish a new capital for the lower country at Memphis, the way must have been prepared by a long series of predecessors conquering and consolidating their power. That such a course of organization occupied three or four centuries is highly probable. “(A History of Egypt, Part One, p. 2). It would be just as absurd to hold that the essential elements of the American civilization began when the Europeans settled in North America in the early 17^th century. They brought with them all the elements needed to plant an advanced civilization: writing, religion, organizational skills, and manual/technical skills such as those needed for building houses and other structures. Without bringing with them certain knowledge, it would not have been possible to establish a university, namely, Harvard, in less than two decades after landing at Plymouth. It took more than three or four centuries for these things to develop in England, even after receiving a jump start from Rome.

Below I will list several areas where the above listed academic specialists need to come clean and in subsequent posts, I will elaborate and expand upon each.

1. Stop trying to take ancient Egypt out of Africa.  

2. Stop the attempts to disassociate Cush/Ethiopia and Ancient Egypt by pretending that Ancient Egypt was only interested in Cush as a colony of Egypt in the same way that European colonialism operated in the 18^th, 19^th, and 20 centuries. Stop denying the kinship of Ancient Cush/Nubia and Ancient Egypt.

3. Stop pretending that the only black pharaohs were those of the 25^th Dynasty and that the 25^th Dynasty started as an invasion of Egypt by Cushites, usually associated with Piankhi’s conquests of the nomarchs (kinglets) scattered throughout Lower Egypt. Instead of speculating about black pharaohs, why not ask the question: who were the white pharaohs of Egypt, before the Macedonians (who came about 330 B. C.)? There were some.

4. Stop denying the physical connection between ancient Egyptians and black Africans? It is not a fluke that 23andme identified Rameses III and me, an American of African descent, as having a common ancestor that probably lived in north Africa or western Asia.

5. Stop denying the southern, African origin of the ancient Egyptians. The ancient Egyptians always looked south for help, spiritual and natural, and that’s where help always came from, for several thousand years.

Next post deals with the attempt of Egyptologists, Archeologists, Paleontologists, and Historians to take Egypt out of Africa.