![]() ![]() Breasted has documented that Kemet (Egypt) led the world in science, mathematics, agriculture, government, law, theology, philosophy, ethics, a written language, monotheism, the idea of the aseity of God, medicine, architecture, the invention of paper, the invention of 365 day calendar, the belief in the afterlife, the belief in a soul, the belief in the judgement of a the soul, the belief in spirituality, and the resurrection story thousands of years before there was such a thing called Europe, Mesopotamia, Western Asia (the Middle East), China, Greece, Rome, Judaism, Christianity, and Al-Islam in the known world. He shows that Kemet (Egypt) is the author of the world’s civilizations and western religions (i.e. Breasted acknowledges that Kemet (Egypt) is the world’s first major civilization. His work on the history of Kemet (Egypt) is great and credible. The school of Egyptology at the University of Chicago is presently one of the world’s most premier programs on the study and science of Kemetic (Egyptian) history, religion and culture in today’s world. He became the first American Professor to hold that position in the United States of America.Įventually, he helped to establish the school of Egyptology at the institution. He ascended to the permanent Chair of Egyptology and Oriental History at the university. Breasted was promoted to full professorship. In 1901, he became director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the university, where he continued to concentrate on Kemet (Egypt). After completing his PhD, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in Illinois. He chose the University of Berlin in Germany. Breasted went on to pursue a PhD in graduate school. He then finished his Master of Arts degree at Yale University.ĭr. Breasted completed his undergraduate studies at North Central College. Breasted was America’s premier Egyptologist. Breasted’s book is important to study, not only for its recording of history but because it’s a case study of his contribution to the creation of white supremacist Ideology.ĭr. This leads me to my mission to expose the intellectualization of white supremacy as the justification for Black oppression. However, the book unapologetically supports white supremacy. The name Kemet is the Afrikan word for the land of the Blacks. ![]() The book is a well written documentation of the majesty of the earliest civilizations of the planet earth, starting with Kemet (Egypt). The very first edition was published in 1916, and then revised throughout the 20th century. One of the books sitting on the shelf of my library is Ancient Times by Egyptologist James Henry Breasted. I have been building my personal library since 1989 after becoming Afrikan centered in my Black consciousness in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In my house, I have a great and massive library. This revolutionary scholar’s name was Dr. But a courageous Black Egyptologist scholar led a movement in the twentieth century to seize Kemet from the hands of white supremacy and Arab hegemony in the world. Not only have racist white intellectuals argued that Kemet was a non-Black civilization, but they also took Kemet geographically out of the continent of Afrika. Unfortunately, over the centuries, white supremacist “scholars” have distorted the history of Kemet. I understand that I will now become a part of an exclusive list of activist intellectuals fighting to rescue, reclaim, and restore Kemet to Afrikan people. ![]() Leonard Jeffries (legendary Africana Studies Professor)Īs I embark on my very first educational tour of Kemet (Egypt). Ben gave Kemet and Nile Valley Civilizations back to us” - Dr. John Henrik Clarke on Gil Noble’s talk show ‘Like It Is.’ Gil Noble was a pioneering Afrikan American journalist on ABC news in NYC. ben Jochannan seated in the middle of legendary history scholars Dr. ![]()
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