The ancient Egyptian civilization made seminal contributions to the world in science, math, astronomy, religion, philosophy, and engineering, among other fields, that modern man still struggles to explain. Critically, the ancient Egyptians were careful to leave a record of their astounding achievements in the form of monuments, elaborate tombs and sarcophagi, art, and papyri illustrating complex mathematical and engineering formulas. When Europeans first "discovered" the remains left by the ancient Egyptians, Europe and America were in the midst of the Atlantic Slave Trade and all of that trade's theories about the white race's supposed superiority and primacy to all other races, with a focus on the black race as being inferior and primitive, without a history to speak of.

Therefore, while the fact of ancient Egypt being a black civilization was such common knowledge in the ancient world that the issue was never raised, those Europeans who became Egyptologists in the early 1800s could not attribute this highest of civilizations to a race they had declared savage and subhuman. From that point onwards, all European and Western Egyptologists made it their primary goal to deny that ancient Egypt had been a black civilization. They would proceed to devise all types of racial theories to support their invented version of history, calling the ancient Egyptians dark-skinned whites, arabs, asians, and any number of other terms meant to obfuscate the truth. When all else failed, they simply declared that the ancient Egyptians were such a mixture of races that the concept of race cannot be applied to them. These types of theories still abound in the internet and in European and American scholarship about ancient Egypt.

In the 1950s a young student from Senegal showed such promise in physics that he left Senegal to go to Paris to further his studies in the field. That young man, Cheikh Anta Diop, eventually developed a keen interest in African history, specifically the study of ancient Egypt. He chose as his thesis for his doctorate from the University of Paris the subject of ancient Egypt as a black civilization that forms the foundation of the black race's history in the same manner as the ancient Greek civilization does for the white race. In the course of developing his thesis Diop would become proficient in the fields of world history, prehistory, archeology, anthropology, linguistics, and sociology. Initially the University of Paris roundly rejected his thesis. Diop did not wilt under that initial rejection, and after two more attempts over a period of ten years, he would finally prevail on his argument after bringing enough objective and honest historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists to accompany him to appear before the committee and support the truth of his argument.

The methods Diop used to carry his thesis were ingenious. To wit, the records of history don't lie, and he meticulously researched the ancient record of Europe's own classical authors and thinkers from Antiquity, many of whom studied in Egypt and were contemporaries of the ancient Egyptians, and used their testimony to confirm his argument. From the mouths of Strabo, Aristotle, Diodorus of Sicily, and Herodotus himself, Europe's own Father of HIstory, came the truth that had been obscured for the past few centuries. Diop reminded Europe of what its own record- keepers had recorded about the race of the ancient Egyptians, a record that they cannot escape.

In this volume those records are explored, as well as the implications of those records, and the author produces a brief outline for the black race to adopt to translate Diop's ideas into practical institutions and systems that both the scholar and the layman can understand, and benefit from. The book aims to keep the legacy of Cheikh Anta Diop alive for the masses, and to reconnect those masses of black people to their oldest and greatest civilization.