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How Alexander Pushkin Was Inspired By His African Heritage

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Alexander Pushkin is often regarded as the greatest Russian author. Many readers are unaware that he was influenced by his African great-grandfather, General Abraham Petrovitch Gannibal. “Boyar credentials, African heritage, and a personal link to Peter the Great were all vital to Pushkin’s identity,” says Anne Lounsbery, a Russian literature researcher. To emphasize his connection …

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Did The Pharaohs Fear The Mysterious African Kingdom of Yam?

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Yam was an African kingdom that existed in ancient times. Not much is known about this ancient kingdom, and what little we do know about it comes from a few Kemetic texts from the Old Kingdom period. According to these texts, the people of Yam had contacts, specifically trade and military, with the Old Kingdom’s …

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Great Sphinx: This Facial Reconstruction Rewrites History

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The Great Sphinx, a giant 4,500-years-old limestone statue situated near the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, is one of the world’s largest and oldest statues. Measuring 240 feet (73 meters) in length and 66 feet (20 meters) in height, it is also one of the most recognizable relics of the civilization of Kemet, though …

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How Your Childhood Affects Your Life

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Over the last few decades, scientific research and analysis have uncovered a wealth of eye-opening insights into our childhood years and how they determine who we’ll become as adults. One of the most fascinating of these discoveries (something we dive deep into here in this article) was made by looking at the brain wave patterns of newborns, …

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The Antibiotic Beer Secret of Ancient Africa

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In the childhood of the world, Africa was the pioneer land as regards the evolution of medicine. To her belongs the high honor of having raised the healing art to a level far exceeding that hitherto attained. Both in diagnosis and in therapeutics astonishing progress was made. Even pathology attracted widespread interest; the Edwin Smith …

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Story of The Looted Zimbabwe Birds

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The Zimbabwe birds are stone-carved birds found in the ruins of the ancient city of Great Zimbabwe, an African civilization located in the modern country of Zimbabwe. The country was named after the ruin built by the ancestors of the Shona people, a bantu ethnic group native to the area. According to many scholars, the …

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Mexico returns ancient bronze sculpture to Nigeria

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Mexico has returned an ancient bronze sculpture to Nigeria after thwarting an attempt to smuggle it into the country, officials say. The artefact is from Nigeria’s south-western Ife city, famous for works depicting royalty and deities of the once-powerful Yoruba kingdom. The sculpture is of a man sitting cross-legged, wearing a head dress and holding …

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DNA from child burials reveals ‘profoundly different’ human landscape in ancient Africa

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Central Africa is too hot and humid for ancient DNA to survive—or so researchers thought. But now the bones of four children buried thousands of years ago in a rock shelter in the grasslands of Cameroon have yielded enough DNA for scientists to analyze. It’s the first ancient DNA from humans in the region, and …

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Kemet: These mysterious head cones actually existed!

7 Comments / Blog, Fashion, News / By Mr. Imhotep

If you are passionate about the history of Kemet, you have probably already noticed those paintings depicting the people of Kemet with some strange cones on top of their heads. These cones have the size of a coffee cup and are just sitting atop some of their heads while they look busy minding their business. …

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Royal Tombs Unearthed in Greece Proof of African Influence

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Archaeologists have discovered two royal tombs in Greece containing jewellery and artefacts dating back more than 3,000 years. The finds include a gold ring depicting bulls flanked by sheaves of barley and a pendant showing the Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) goddess Hathor. The US researchers say their discovery will provide new clues about early Mycenaean trade …

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