![]() ![]() This, in turn, led Bernal to study contemporary cultures of the Phoenicians, Canaanites and the Egyptians and conclude that Near Eastern cultures had a massive influence on the emergence of classical Greek civilisation which formed part of the Greeks’ own mythological history but was ignored in European and Anglophone studies of ancient Greece. A growing interest in understanding his Jewish roots led Bernal to study Hebrew and ancient Jewish history beginning in the mid-1970s. 1 by the late Martin Bernal along with its sequels and many commentaries, sometimes referred to as the “Bernaliad” are almost apocryphal.īernal was a Cambridge trained Sinologist, who taught Government Studies at Cornell University (New York) from 1972, and distantly related to the famous Egyptologist Sir Alan Gardiner. ![]() The stories around the 1987 book Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization vol. ![]()
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