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Title: Archaeology? What archaeology?
Review: What struck me most about Black Athena is the lack of archaeological evidence. Almost all of the evidence Mr Bernal adduces in support of his thesis is linguistic. He cites very little physical (archaeological) evidence, and attempts to deny the need for such evidence by referring dismissively to "the argument from silence"---what we can find no trace of today cannot have existed in significant quantities then. The title also seems to be a misnomer, since the ancient Egyptians were not black, and his argument is the influence of Egypt, not the influence of sub-saharan Africa. Note: even the name of the continent--Africa--has a non-black etymology: the Roman Scipio Africanus!
