SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: For 2,000 years the Greeks openly credited Africa as the source of their knowledge. Then between 1780 and 1820 a group of European academics decided that was unacceptable.

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The African History School

For 2,000 years the Greeks openly credited Africa as the source of their knowledge. Then between 1780 and 1820 a group of European academics decided that was unacceptable. Here's exactly who rewrote history and how: These men racialised history and severed Greece from Africa. 1780–1820: EARLY FOUNDATIONS • Christoph Meiners (1747–1810) First to argue Greeks were "white" and Egyptians were not African. Introduced racial hierarchy into classical studies. This is where the lie was born. • Johann Blumenbach (1752–1840) Created the five-race model. Placed Greeks at the top of the "Caucasian" ideal. Gave the lie a scientific name. • Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729–1812) Reframed Greece as the origin of Europe. Egypt and Africa were removed from the picture. • Friedrich August Wolf (1759–1824) Founded modern philology. Insisted Greek texts be studied with no Near Eastern context. Built the methodology that made the erasure look academic. • Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) Not a classicist. But his racial hierarchy set the intellectual temperature for everything that followed. • G.W.F. Hegel (1770–1831) Declared Africa "ahistorical." Claimed world history begins with Greece. Wrote an entire continent out of human civilisation in one lecture. 1820–1870 - SYSTEMATIZERS These scholars formalised the Aryan narrative and gave it institutional weight. • Franz Bopp (1791–1867) Founded Indo-European linguistics. Linked Greek to Sanskrit and Germanic languages. Gave the Aryan story its linguistic backbone. • Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835) Elevated Indo-European as the "noble" language family. Built the academic prestige around it. • Karl Otfried Müller (1797–1840) Argued Greek culture came from northern Dorian migrations. Egypt's colonisation of Greece was deleted. • Max Müller (1823–1900) Popularised the Aryan vs Semitic racial dichotomy. Greeks were Aryan. • Ernest Renan (1823–1892) Elevated Greeks as the rational "Aryan" race. Put the hierarchy into print for mass consumption. • Arthur de Gobineau (1816–1882) Wrote Essay on the Inequality of Human Races. Claimed only Aryans create civilisation. This book was read in every European university. 1840–1900: THE HAMITIC HYPOTHESIS But Egypt was too impressive to ignore. So they reclassified it. • Samuel George Morton (1799–1851) Measured skulls and declared Egyptians "Caucasian." This is what passed for science. • James Cowles Prichard (1786–1848) Claimed Egyptians were Caucasian migrants into Africa. Africa didn't build Egypt. Egypt just happened to be in Africa. • Karl Richard Lepsius (1810–1884) Egyptologist who promoted the Hamitic racial category professionally. Gave the reclassification academic credibility. • James Henry Breasted (1865–1935) America's most famous Egyptologist. Admired Egypt enormously. Still insisted Egyptians were "Hamites" — not African. 1880–1930: EUGENICS AND THE POLITICAL HARDENING By this point the lie had an army. • Francis Galton (1822–1911) Darwin's cousin. Founded the eugenics movement. Applied racial hierarchy to human populations and gave it the language of science. • Karl Pearson (1857–1936) Galton's disciple. Used statistics to "prove" Aryan superiority. Made racism look like mathematics. • Madison Grant (1865–1937) Wrote The Passing of the Great Race. Claimed the original Greeks were Nordic. This book was openly praised by Adolf Hitler. • Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927) Wrote Foundations of the Nineteenth Century. Claimed Aryans created all civilisation. Became required reading across Europe. - Every Egyptologist was trained inside this system specifically to override the most obvious conclusion the evidence was pointing to: That Africans built the first great civilisation on earth. That Greeks were their students. That what Europe calls the foundation of Western thought was African knowledge.

12:58 AM · Feb 27, 2026