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Was Moses the grandson of Akhenaton (Amenhotep, IV), and therefore an Egyptian? Are African Americans and those throughout Africa and the diaspora, the descendants of the ancient Egyptians and other the Nile Valley African people? Are they the "dispersed" and "scattered" people spoken about by the prophets in the Old Testament? And what universal laws did they break that would bring such devastation upon them? These are some of the questions raised by Virginia Kitani Bullock in her intriguing and compelling work, Ancient Egypt (Kemet): Our Buried Past. Weaving together scholarship and scripture Bullock contends that ancient Black African Nile Valley Kemetians (Egyptians) broke a "Tree of Life" universal law through their practice of mummification. Since according to scripture, "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return," when we die the soul is destined to incarnate into a new body. Mummification "freezes" the soul in time, thereby violating this universal law. African peoples also had servile classes, and "outsider," groups, those who were cut off from their ancestry and bloodlines, for various reasons like committing a crime. Akhenaton's daughter violated a family law by bearing a child with a member of the "outsider" group, Moses of the Old Testament. After Akhenaton's rulership ended, Moses, continued his grandfather's campaign to worship one universal God (monotheism) and brought it to the "outsider" Egyptian class and groups including the Hebrews. These outsider class/groups, cut off from their ancestry; belonging "nowhere," and to "nobody" would make Egypt vulnerable to outside forces. After numerous invasions and conquests, the Great Black Egyptian Civilization would Fall. Its people would spread throughout the continent of Africa, creating other great civilizations. However, in time, almost, the entire continent of Africa would come under siege and be colonized, and through the transatlantic slave trade, Afr