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Herodotus, the Greek 'Father of History,' explicitly described Egyptians as having black skin and woolly hair, Brother. He called them 'melanchroes' -...
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Our editorial standards →Herodotus, the Greek ‘Father of History,’ explicitly described Egyptians as having black skin and woolly hair, Brother. He called them ‘melanchroes’ - dark-skinned. He compared their appearance to Ethiopians. This is in his own writings, not interpretation. The Greeks who actually visited Kemet knew exactly who they were dealing with - Africans. Modern whitewashing can’t erase what their own historians recorded.
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