Portrait of member of 12th dynasty royal family, reign of Senwosret III, Musem of Fine Arts, Boston
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I appeared on both of this week’s episodes of The Daily Shoah on The Right Stuff Radio. In the first episode (here), Paul Kersey and I joined the Death Panel to discuss Hidden Figures and black hostility to white Faustian adventures like the space program. In the second episode (here), which is a best of compilation of last year’s Black Fake History Month shows, I appear in the first hour to talk about Afrocentric attempts to appropriate the white civilization of Ancient Egypt. Thanks again to Mike and Sven for having me on. Enjoy!
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English original here
Dans son nouveau livre, From Akhenaten to Moses: Ancient Egypt and Religious Change [D’Akhenaton à Moïse : l’ancienne Egypte et le changement religieux] (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2014), l’égyptologue Jan Assmann dit que le concept d’Age Axial du philosophe Karl Jaspers n’est « pas une théorie mais un mythe scientifique » (p. 94). (more…)
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Translations: French, Spanish
In his new book, From Akhenaten to Moses: Ancient Egypt and Religious Change
(Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2014), Egyptologist Jan Assmann argues that philosopher Karl Jaspers’ concept of the Axial Age is “not a theory but a scientific myth” (p. 94).
According to Jaspers, the centuries between 800 and 200 BCE are a turning point in world history. During this Axial Age, Biblical monotheism and Zoroastrianism emerged in the Near East; (more…)
Portrait of Queen Hatshepsut, the 18th dynasty female Pharaoh with original pink facial pigmentation
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Editor’s Note:
A few minor corrections to the article below. First, the mummy identified as possibly that of female Pharaoh Hatshepsut has now been identified as the mummy of Queen Tiy (also mentioned below), the mother of Akhnaton. (more…)
