In Black Athena Revisited, Kathryn A. Bard gives reason as to why the subject of race might be irrelevant after all: “Ancient Egyptians were Mediterranean peoples, neither Sub-Saharan blacks nor Caucasian whites but peoples whose skin was adapted for life in a tropical desert environment…. Egyptians were the indigenous farmers of the Lower Nile Valley, neither black nor white as races are conceived of today.” The modern ideas about race and the stigma often attached to one race or another simply did not exist in ancient times. The Egyptians may not have even been what we consider today to be “black people.” Furthermore, as Lawrence A. Tritle notes, why should Egypt “stand for the rest of Africa?” He says, “Just because people lived on the same continent as the Greeks and Romans does not mean that they shared in the cultural achievements of either antecedent.”

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