Tag: Ancient Egypt

Mycenaean bust of a Bronze Age warrior wearing a boar’s-tusk helmet

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By the late spring of 1185 BC, something had gone terribly wrong in the palace-complex of Syrian Ugarit. The city’s leader, Amurabi, had just received a letter from the grand supervisor of Alashiya (Cyprus), asking Amurabi to send what men he could spare to help his beleaguered ally to the east. Cutthroats and bands of foreign invaders were menacing his Cypriot towns. Unfortunately, Amurabi had his own border problems. In a message whose words have lost none of their exasperation or sarcasm after 32 centuries, the ruler of Ugarit replied: (more…)

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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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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En su nuevo libro, From Akhenaten to Moses: Ancient Egypt and Religious Change (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2014), el egiptólogo Jan Assmann argumenta que el concepto del filósofo Karl Jaspers de la era axial “no es una teoría sino un mito científico” (p.94).

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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…)