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Originally Posted by MARTIN AND CO
Your ancestors? The concept of "africa" is European colonialism. Seeing "africa" as it's seen now is nothing like what the world was for civilizations in those northern regions at that time. Civilization was from the horn of "africa" to around india/paskistani border. It branched out from there slightly in various directions, ie towards libya, persia/armenia, etc. Point being, talking about "african ancestors" is like talking about "european ancestors" or "asian ancestors", only Iraq and all of the satellite civilizations around it were far more diverse. Your ancestors are not simultaneous from every civilization that ever existed in "africa", and you are most likely not descended from "egyptians", so his joke was not really disrespectful. It's not as if all Europeans share the greeks as their ancestors, nor do all asians share the early han dynasty as theirs.Originally Posted by SpottieOttie305
Don't ever compare the real Imhotep to that stupid character from the "Mummy". That's disrespectful to my African ancestors and I'm being serious.Originally Posted by Mitchellicious
Originally Posted by SpottieOttie305
It's sooo much I can sy about the pyramids so I'll give y'all a brief summery. It has been confirmed by many sources that the pyramids were NOT built by slaves. They were built by master Masons.
The first known pyramid designer was an Ancient African man named Imhotep. He was a multi genius who built the step pyramid and the Egyptian Masons gradually perfected the art of pyramid building to what is known as the Great Pyramid at Giza.
They were not built by aliens, just ancient Africans. The way that the pyramids were built can not be duplicated today. The reason why is because the ancient Egyptian society was far more advanced than we are today.
He also tried to kill Brendan Fraser
As far as egypt in the whole people vs aliens; is it that hard to imagine people could have built it? Also, do we take greek mythology as some sort of evidence that they were talking to aliens? Egypt as a society was fairly diverse, and slaves did exist in their society. There were definitely highly skilled engineers/masons working on the projects, but they would not be the ones doing all the heavy lifting. The talent pool could not be big enough, and it would take thousands of years. It literally takes a whole society to build something like the pyramids, and there is not a single society to date that is composed exclusively of highly skilled individuals.
These threads are usually beehives of pseudo-science and pseudo-history. The regulars (some not present) get their information from the black equivalent of the stormfront forums and proceed to repost it on here. Most of the people into "it" are usually musicians and entertainers who know nothing about history or science but consider themselves "scholars" (ie, the guy from afrika bambaata).
Last time this went off into how blacks traveled all over the world to visit the chinese, the mayans, the olmecs, etc and impart them with wisdom. From some of the posted pictures it seems is headed there again. I guess some people can't make up their minds as to the facial features of certain civilizations, and also have come to the conclusion that certain "races" hold a monopoly of specific facial features. The olmecs were definitely black, I mean, who else looks like that?!...............
oh wait...maori (native new zealanders) must have built the olmec pyramids, look at the facial features, its irrefutable evidence! a picture!
I understand where the frustration comes from, being systematically undermined for centuries and labeled inferior is justification enough to want to prove the opposite. Claiming every advanced ancient civilization as black doesn't really help blacks in any way today. A high school in canada for black students where the curriculum revolved around afrocentrism failed to produce any results.
I think everyone can agree that "black skinned" people certainly played a fundamental role in egypt, there were even nubian dynasties. Again however, egypt was a diverse society and had a changing society as dictated by military losses and triumphs (pre-hellinistic egypt) and interactions with neighboring civilizations. No one is arguing that swedish-looking people build the pyramids.
A lot of people are gonna be mad at this post, but it's the realest $%%# I've ever heard said in these threads on ancient Egypt.