Africa & Africans in Antiquity

Africa and Africans in Antiquity assesses recent historical research and archaeology under way in Egypt, North Africa, the Sudan, and the Horn of Africa. Whereas many European and American scholars of earlier generations believed that Egyptian contacts with Africa to the south were not culturally significant, research contained in this important collection rejects such notions. At the same time, the volume takes issue with Afrocentric scholars who argue that most Egyptians were 'black' and that blacks are the rightful heirs to Egypt's past grandeur. These ten thought-provoking essays demonstrate that this large region was an ethnic and cultural mosaic in antiquity, a place where Phoenicians, Berbers, Greeks, as well as Egyptians and Nubians interacted.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 06/30/2001
ISBN: 9780870135071
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2001 pg. 42