NEW THING EXCITING!!!!!

In the END (sorry sir u were right) C19th (leading onto the C20th) the influence of a guy called "Blyden" and his influential essays and criticisms of white historians, with regard to Egypt, particularly Amarna Egypt. One of his essays is titled, "The Negro in Ancient History".

During this period there was a push by African Americans who saw the stylistic features of Amarna (specifically the statues of Karnak as they convey features of thick lips and broad nostrils) as indicators that Akhenaten as African.

Though, looking at the evidence provided in later works (particularly Thutmose) and the evident struggle of the artist Bak to sculpt in the Amarna style and the hatred between the Nubians and Egyptians this doesn't seem likely.

Thus the fact that 'white historians' were calling these statues grotesque (to quote the book) "seemed to prove the racist conspiracy by white historians to deny and degrade the blackness of the Egyptians".

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