| Description |
212 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Towards a New Historiography: A Foreword -- Introduction: Reclaiming Ancient Egypt -- 1. Race and Evolution in Prehistory -- 2. Africa and Palestine in Antiquity -- 3. Imhotep the Physician: Archtype of the Great Man -- 4. The Great Queens of Ethiopia -- 5. The African Background of Medical Science -- 6. Science and Symbol in Egyptian Medicine -- 7. The Kamite Genesis of Christianity |
| Summary |
The author looks at the question of race and prehistory and contextualises human development from its beginnings in Africa and its spread around the globe; a reappraisal of the world's first multi-genius, Imhotep; a look at the black Queens of Ethiopia, and a forcefully argued case of the origins of Christianity in ancient Egyptian religion; the most convincing area of the author's arguments rest on the medical record of the Egyptians who documented numerous ailments and their diagnoses and cures. The author presents two seperate essays on this subject which leave no doubt as to the precedence of medical science in Africa |
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The essays that make up this book attempt to trace the history of ancient Egypt both from its encounter with 18th century Europe and the distortions which derived from it, and a comprehensive reassessment of ancient Egyptian history itself. The author surveys the background to the controversial origins of ancient Egyptian civilizations to an African people, and goes on to document and confirm the genetic connections between the latter two. These are based upon religious, cultural and linguistic comparisons and are grounded in an historiography which is fuelled by a parallelled Afrocentric perspective, i.e., one which rejects the phenomenon of slavery and the status of Africans in the modern world to outweigh the array of objectively defined evidences which sustain genetic and other connections |
| Analysis |
Egyptian civilization, ancient period |
| Notes |
Egyptian civilization,. ancient period (BNB/PRECIS) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-212) |
| Subject |
Medicine -- Africa -- History.
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Medicine -- Egypt -- History.
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Civilization -- history.
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Continental Population Groups -- history.
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Medicine, African Traditional.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001534
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Africa -- History -- To 1498.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001557
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Egypt -- Civilization -- To 332 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041266
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Egypt -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041265
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Africa. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000349 |
| LC no. |
90103424 |
| ISBN |
0907015433 |
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0907015638 (hard) |
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