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YouTube
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Black People Built the Pyramids! - PART 2: Featuring Dr. Leonard Jeffries - YouTube
Black People Built the Pyramids! - PART 2: Featuring Dr. Leonard Jeffries. Visit HAPIFilm.com and pick up a copy of our award winning documentary HAPI - The ...
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The Harvard Crimson
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Harvard Professors Condemn Jeffries' Views | News | The Harvard Crimson
February 7, 1992 - Throughout his lecture--a revisionist version of history that attributed virtually every success of modern society to the ancient Egyptian civilization of the Nile--Jeffries denied charges that he is a bigot, at one point citing his presidency of a Jewish fraternity while in college as evidence. The CUNY professor meanwhile continued to allege that Jews were heavily involved in the slave trade even as he denied that Egyptians had used Jewish slave labor to build the ancient pyramids of Giza--a period of bondage that Jews commemorate with the holiday of Passover.
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LinkedIn
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Words Of Inspiration: "Our Sacred Mission"​ By Dr. Leonard Jeffries
February 11, 2019 - We got another picture of Menachem Begin dancing in front of the pyramids that his ancestors built thousands of years ago. We want our pyramids back, and there's no need to even dialogue unless you are prepared to give them up." So you have to operate from some strength. If you operate from weakness, doubt, and you don't know what you're doing, there's no need to be in the ballpark. Let the Gordons, Jeffries and others do the shooting, because you all will be shooting the wrong people and using the wrong ammunition.
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Open Culture
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Who Really Built the Egyptian Pyramids—And How Did They Do It? | Open Culture
April 5, 2025 - They know who built the pyra­mids …. It was the Nubians (mod­ern Sudan) they ruled the upper and low­er. They were black Africans
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Quora
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Did black people build the pyramids? - Quora
They would have more closely resembled ... damaged. Yes, it had a head. Hemiunu is a man who lived in ancient Egypt, and who is believed to have been the architect of the Great Pyramid of Giza. As vizie......
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Final Call
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Ten Best Lies of Black History
January 29, 2013 - 1. Whites were the first people on earth. 2. Blacks in slavery were only cotton pickers and maids. 3. Lincoln freed the slaves. 4. Blacks ate each other in Africa. 5. Blacks were cursed black by God. 6. The United States government has helped Blacks succeed. 7. Jews built the pyramids.
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UMSL
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Umsl
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Reddit
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r/AskHistorians on Reddit: Were the Pyramids built by black africans?
September 30, 2023 -

I was reading a book by Kehinde Andrews called the ' New Age of Empire' that made the claim the pyramids and ancient Egypt were populated by black descendents from Nubia; His content was based on a famous book by Cheikh Diop 1974, called "The African origin of civilisation'. There has been controversy about this in the news recently: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/18/world/middleeast/egypt-african-dutch-museum.html I am wondering what evidence there is for both sides and if anyone has a critique of Diops work.

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It depends on what you mean by black. There is a certain popular fascination with proving that ancient Egyptians were or were not "black". It is a pity that the few times someone asks a question about Africa in this subreddit, most of the time it is either about slavery or about the race of ancient Egyptians, and the latter is a topic that most Africanists (specialists in African studies) have a hard time communicating the reasons why it is actually misguided. I’ll try my best, and if you are interested u/khosikulu answered a related question long long time ago. You mention Cheik Diop’s 1974 “The African origin of civilization”. Cheik Anta Diop was a well-known philosopher, physicist, and politician from Senegal. Around the time he was writing, social movements like black power and the black nationalist movement were active in the United States, and most African nations had already become independent. Regrettably, the fruits of both the civil rights movement and of decolonization were still far from what was expected from these movements. In this context, it was natural for a movement seeking to re-center the history of Africa within the experience of Africans and the wider African diaspora to emerge. We nowadays call this worldview Afrocentrism, and though Diop never described himself as such, much of his writings became the basis for this reinterpretation of history. This ideology also made it into UNESCO's General History of Africa, and its presence in book 2, chapter 1 is one of the reasons why AskHistorians' booklist for Africa includes the disclaimer “Please note that much of the scholarship is upwards of 30 years old, and may not represent current consensus based on new evidence.” It is expected that a new volume which reviews this controversy will be published at the end of the year, and I am looking forward to it. Afrocentrism must be seen as a reaction to the Eurocentrism of the historical community in the 70’s. Things have changed, yet it was not so many years ago that professional historians would speak about “Western civilization” as the benchmark against which every other culture had to be measured. I am not saying that this no longer happens, but these days you are more likely to hear it from a conservative politician than from a young historian. Did you ever notice how older museums used to present a sort of "linear evolution" of human civilization? Something along the lines Egypt -> Greece -> Rome -> Europe? And why is Egypt so often presented separately from the rest of African history? Africa is a geographic convention, and of itself there is no doubt that Egypt is located in the continent. Well, Diop argued that actually, “Graeco-Roman civilization” took all its good ideas from Egypt; hence, from Africa. Some classicists took offense at this suggestion, no doubt traces of institutional racism and elitism in the ivory tower played a role, however what really took this theory into the realm of pseudo-history was conflating being African with being “black”, especially “black” as belonging to a monolithic “black civilization” common to every person whose skin tone was/is on the darker side. This is not to say that people with a darker hue have not been racialized by contemporary society, the effects of the transatlantic slave trade unfortunately are still present and discrimination is common on both sides of the Atlantic; yet, it is not possible to assume that the experiences of the every black person to have ever lived were common to what it currently means to be black. Moreover, looking for proofs of this theory, Afrocentric scholars often essentialize "blackness" by stereotyping the cultural, phenotypic, genetic, or intellectual characteristics of “black people". Your mileage may vary, but it is not uncommon to find Afrocentric aficionados discussing “subnasal prognathism”. Research results consistently show that there is more variation within human populations than between them. I am aware that race as a concept has a very peculiar meaning in countries such as the United States, yet as a social construction, it is historical malpractice to apply our cultural logic to a society foreign to it from the past. Back to your question, it is very likely that some of the Egyptian pyramids were designed and constructed by humans with a darker skin tone. We know that the 25th dynasty originated in Nubia; however, this doesn’t prevent other pharaohs or dynasties from also having a similar skin color. On the other hand, current Egyptians are extremely sensitive to images of Cleopatra that present her with a dark skin tone; blackness and Islam are a topic for another question. I understand the irritation that foreigners misrepresenting their proud past cause, nonetheless, I have never heard them complain about the lack of black extras in movies set in ancient Egypt; banning a TV series is too much for me. I personally find Afrocentrism annoying, but would I ban it? No. The reason I am writing this long text is to have an answer to which I can redirect future questions. Afrocentrists tried to substitute “white civilization” with “black civilization”, not realizing that neither of them exists at all. Clarence Walker is even more severe, calling it “Eurocentrism in blackface.” (Walker, 2001). For my part, I have tried to make it understandable why such a movement developed; nevertheless, there is no need to plagiarize from ancient Egypt in order to have African history to look up to. Egyptian history is African history, yet there is way more. The continent is so complex and diverse that it would be great loss for humanity to concentrate only on sphinxes and pyramids, and it does a disservice to countless African societies worthy of study on their own. Sources: Banner-Haley, C. P. (2003). Review of “We can’t go home again: an argument about Afrocentrism”, by C. E. Walker. The Journal of Southern History, 69(3), 663–664. DOI: 10.2307/30040016 Bernal, M. (2014). Black Athena. In R. O. Collins & R. Iyob (Eds.), Problems in African history : the precolonial centuries (fourth updated edition). Markus Wiener Publishers. Diop, C. A. (2014). The African origins of Western civilization. In R. O. Collins & R. Iyob (Eds.), Problems in African history : the precolonial centuries (fourth updated edition). Markus Wiener Publishers. Hall, B. (2011). A history of race in Muslim West Africa, 1600 – 1960. Cambridge University Press. Lefkowitz, M. & Rogers, G. (Eds.) (1996). Black Athena revisited. The University of North Carolina Press. Mauny, R. (2014). A review of Diop. In R. O. Collins & R. Iyob (Eds.), Problems in African history : the precolonial centuries (fourth updated edition). Markus Wiener Publishers. Walker, C. E. (2001). We can't go home again: an argument about Afrocentrism. Oxford University Press.
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Medium
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Did Aliens Build the Pyramids?. Our unconscious way of denying Black… | by Jeffrey Kass | Momentum
April 20, 2025 - Africans, not aliens, built them. So there’s no mistake about how these aliens-not-Africans theories get promoted, white nationalist websites are the biggest spreaders of these theories.
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The Conversation
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Racism is behind outlandish theories about Africa’s ancient architecture
December 2, 2025 - Despite all this evidence, some people still refuse to believe that anyone from Africa (or anywhere in what is today considered the developing world) could possibly have created and constructed the Giza pyramids or other ancient masterpieces. Instead, they credit ancient astronauts, extraterrestrials or time travellers as the real builders. Well, you may ask, so what? Who cares if relatively few people don’t believe the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids?
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Quora
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Who built the ancient Egypt pyramid, blacks or whites? - Quora
Answer (1 of 17): Neither Egyptians Built them. Not black sub-Saharan or white Europeans. This race baiting questions need to stop Egyptians come in all colors some even black but not Negroid .
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Blackpressusa
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COMMENTARY: Black genius built the pyramids, not slave labor – BlackPressUSA
January 17, 2019 - Most of whom are political prisoners trapped in some dungeon or ghetto or impoverished lifestyle. Whether the news of these findings in the Grand Canyon and the Atlantic Ocean are true or not, Black hands have built pyramids and great civilizations all over the world.
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SF Bay View
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Black genius built the pyramids, not slave labor
May 22, 2019 - Black Genius built the pyramids, not slave labor. Black hands have built pyramids all over the world. In Afraka, Asia, Amerika and, apparently, even ancient Atlantis! I mention this because there are some very schizophrenic people out there ...
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Open Culture
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Who Built the Egyptian Pyramids & How Did They Do It?: New Archeological Evidence Busts Ancient Myths | Open Culture
March 4, 2021 - I believe pyra­mid con­struc­tion was thor­ough­ly explained in the movie K2019 The Great Pyramids.Not so mys­te­ri­ous but intrigu­ing and believ­able. ... They and you know who built the pryamids me and my peo­ple did and to this very day you still don’t know how we done lol and you peo­ple are still try­ing to fig­ure out but here’s my ques­tion if black peo­ple are so this and that then why are you still try­ing to study my pryamids just a ques­tion for white peo­ple
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Wordpress
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“Our Sacred Mission” by Dr. Leonard Jeffries
February 8, 2016 - So once he was prepared to give up my pyramid—and I always carry an image of the pyramids around—once he was prepared to give them up, I said I would come down. And he called in from Hong Kong to tell his people, “Tell Jeffries he can have his pyramids back.”
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Wiki2
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Leonard Jeffries — Wikipedia Republished // WIKI 2
July 1, 2019 - "The Triangular Trade: A Global Systems Analysis" - Dr. Leonard Jeffries (Feb 15, 2021) Black People Built the Pyramids! - PART 2: Featuring Dr. Leonard Jeffries · HAPI Talks with Prof. James Small & Dr. Leonard Jeffries about "High Valued Men" in African Culture ·
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PBS
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NOVA Online/Pyramids/Who Built the Pyramids?
NOVA Online presents Pyramids—The Inside Story. Tour the Great Pyramid in QuickTime VR, follow the current excavation, learn about how the pyramids were constructed and who constructed them.
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The Guardian
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Great Pyramid tombs unearth 'proof' workers were not slaves | Egypt | The Guardian
February 14, 2018 - "If the Hebrews built anything, then it was the city of Ramses as mentioned in Exodus," said Mazar. Dieter Wildung, a former director of Berlin's Egyptian Museum, said it is "common knowledge in serious Egyptology" that the pyramid builders were not slaves. "The myth of the slaves building pyramids is only the stuff of tabloids and Hollywood," Wildung said.
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Quora
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Why do people think that black people invented the concept of a pyramid when there are pyramids in Peru that are older than the ones in Egypt? - Quora
Answer (1 of 8): The first pyramid ever built was in MESOPOTAMIA. Secondly, the ancient Egyptians were not black. Anu ziggurat from Uruk, Mesopotamia dated to 4000 BCE: The Egyptians were influenced by the Mesopotamian ziggurats and their early pyramids were step pyramids, like the pyramids in ...