Tagged: Great Pyramid

“Notwithstanding the opinion of Andre Siegfried, the Black is clearly capable of creating technique. He is the very one who first created it at a time when all the white races, steeped in barbarism were barely fit for civilization. When we say that the ancestors of Blacks, who today live mainly in Black Africa, were the first to invent mathematics, astronomy, the calendar, sciences in general, arts, religion, agriculture, social organization, medicine, writing, technique, architecture; that they were the first to erect buildings out of 6 million tons of stone (the Great Pyramid) as architects and engineers — not simply as unskilled laborers; that they built the immense temple of Karnak, the forest of columns with its famed hypostyle hail large enough to hold Notre-Dame and its towers; that they sculpted the first colossal statutes (Colossi of Memnon, etc.) — when we say all that we are merely expressing the plain unvarnished truth that no one today can refute by arguments worthy of the name.”

Source: Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality, pg. 234-5. 1974

“Astronomers have noted in the Great Pyramid indications of the sidereal year, the anomalistic year, the precessions of the equinoxes ‘for 6,000 years, whereas modern astronomy knows them for only about 400 years.’ Mathematics have detected in it the exact value of ‘pi,’ the exact average distance between the sun and the earth, the polar diameter of the earth, and so on.”

Source: Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality, pg. 233. 1974