The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of their civilization is to be counted among the assets of the Black world. - Cheikh Anta Diop

The Europeans looked down on the Black world and condescended to touch nothing but its riches.

Instead of presenting itself to history as an insolvent debtor, that Black world is the very initiator of the "western" civilization flaunted before our eyes today.

Pythagorean mathematics, the theory of the four elements of Thales of Miletus, Epicurean materialism, Platonic idealism, Judaism, Islam, and modern science are rooted in Egyptian cosmogony and science.