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Of What Race Were The Ancient Egyptians? A Brief Guide To Correcting The Modern Falsification Of Ancient History And To Implementing The Scientific, Historical, And Cultural Legacy Of Cheikh Anta Diop By Alexander Otis Matthews A modern exploration of the issues concerning the race of the ancient Egyptians as revealed from the work of noted egyptologist Cheikh Anta Diop, and a practical guide to implementing his legacy for Africans and blacks throughout the diaspora. The direct testimony of the classical authors of European antiquity is examined and brought to bear on the subject. Less The ancient Egyptian civilization made seminal contributions to the world in science, math, astronomy, religion, philosophy, and engineering, among other fields, that modern man still struggles to explain. Critically, the ancient Egyptians were careful to leave a record of their astounding achievements in the form of monuments, elaborate tombs and sarcophagi, art, and papyri illustrating complex mathematical and engineering formulas. When Europeans first "discovered" the remains left by the ancient Egyptians, Europe and America were in the midst of the Atlantic Slave Trade and all of that trade's theories about the white race's superiority and primacy to all other races, with a focus on the black race as being inferior and primitive, without a history to speak of. Therefore, while the fact of ancient Egypt being a black civilization was such common knowledge in the ancient world that the issue was never raised, those Europeans who became egyptologists in the early 1800s could not attribute this highest of civilizations to a race they had declared savage and subhuman. From that point onwards, all European and Western egyptologists made it their primary goal to deny that ancient Egypt had been a black civilization. They would proceed to devise all types of racial theories to support their invented version of history, calling the ancient Egyptians dark-skinned whites, arabs, asians, and