SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: The ancient Greeks did not experience Egypt as a puzzling anomaly on a "dark continent." They experienced it as a source.

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The Greeks knew where they learned.

This is not a contested point.

Herodotus traveled to Egypt and wrote about it with the specific reverence of someone encountering a civilization older and in many ways more sophisticated than his own.

Pythagoras reportedly studied in Egypt for years.

Plato credited Egyptian priests with knowledge of astronomical cycles that Greek civilization was only beginning to approach.

Thales, often called the first Greek philosopher, was described by ancient sources as having learned geometry from Egyptian priests.

The ancient Greeks did not experience Egypt as a puzzling anomaly on a "dark continent."

They experienced it as a source.

A place you went to learn things your own civilization had not yet figured out.

This is the record. Written by Greeks. About Egyptians.

And then "Western civilization" built a story in which it was the inheritor and transmitter of ancient wisdom, while quietly reorganizing the geography of who that ancient wisdom belonged to.

The Greeks knew.

It took their academic descendants considerable effort to forget.