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CHAPTER 7
UNSHACKLE YOUR MIND
BLACK PHARAOHS, PYRAMIDS AND ARCHITECTS:
by John R. MooreHere is Djoser (Zoser), the Pharaoh who built the first pyramid, and next to him is the pyramid that he commissioned.
This is Imhotep, the artist or architect who designed that pyramid. He is the world's first multi-genius and the Father of Medicine. The Greeks loved his work so much, that they imitated him and called their own god Æsculapius in honour of him.
For example, every doctor takes the Hippocratic Oath whether white or Black, and when he takes that oath, here is how he begins, "I swear by Æsculapius....." Æsculapius is the name that Greek people gave to the Black Afrikan genius, Imhotep.
If you need the kind of proof that some of you may need, you can pick up book 2 of the History of Herodotus, in which he discusses the fact that he noticed that the Greeks had collected the names of all their gods and goddesses from Afrika and Asia, but that practically all of them came from Afrika. Herodotus was very specific about which ones came from Afrika, and he never claimed antiquity for Greek civilization. Herodotus lived around the 5th century B.C and was an eye witness in Afrika, but not only that, he also gave a physical description of the Egyptians as he saw them, stating that they were Black skinned, they had woolly hair, they had broad noses and big lips. This was Herodotus' physical eye witness account of the Egyptians as late as the 5th century BC, which is the period that we are most interested in.
This is Pharaoh Snofru (Snefru) from the 4th dynasty, and his sphinx that was found in basement of the Paris museum.
Notice that he also had some damage done to his nose as do many of the statues. The more Afrikan they appear, the more damage there seems to be done to the noses and lips to destroy the Afrikan-ness.
This is what is believed to be the image of Pharaoh Khufu who built one of the three pyramids. The one on the far side which has the top cut off is a Greek pyramid. As usual the Greeks changed his name to Cheops.This statue was actually found in what used to be a toilet as someone had actually thrown it away, and it had to be scraped clean.
The middle pyramid is Khafre's pyramid, meaning soul of Re or soul of God. The Greeks changed his name to Chephren.
The first pyramid belongs to Menkaure soul of Re(Ra). The Greeks changed his name to Mykerinus (Mycerinus).
In other words, the Greeks not only changed the names as they always do, but in so doing they also steal meaning from the names.
Each one of these 3 pyramids had a boat pit next to it. This boat becomes very important as you note the date which is 2,700 years BC. The dimensions are 140 feet long. That boat was found next to the farthest pyramid all the way in the back. Each pyramid had a major boat pit which was only discovered recently. This boat, still looking in really pristine condition, was housed outside the pyramid and was useful for sailing up and down the Nile. This means that the first fleets of ships came from the Kemetic source.
The importance of the boat though is that if this kind of naval technology existed around 2,700 BC, it means that the Egyptians had the means to go any where they wanted to, and if by chance they did not travel, it was because they had no reason to do so and not because they did not have the technology that allowed them to travel.
Here are two images of Khafre (Chephren). Now take a good look at his physical features and decide for yourself if you think he is a Black person or a white person. A lot of people believe that all Black people have big lips, but if you were to visit a place like Nubia for instance, you will observe that the people there are very dark with a bluish tint, and have very straight, curly, woolly hair. These fit the description of Herodotus but if you go even further south, you will find lighter skinned Afrikans with thinner lips that look more Asiatic, more like the so called Bushmen of South Afrika.
On the left in the first image is a picture of Menkaure in the old kingdom, whom the Greeks call Mykerinus. On the right is another image of Menkaure, so if you line them all in sequence you will get a different impression of what the physical appearance of those Afrikans were.
The image on the left shows the peak of a pyramid, and this gives the opportunity to point out that the founding fathers of America, who were almost all Masons, chose Egyptian images to be used as their symbols, such as the symbol printed on the U.S. dollar bill for example. Look at an American dollar and you will see the all seeing eye of God or Heru (Horus) at the top of the dollar bill. Of course this is the thing that the founding fathers loved more than anything else in the world, money, and they used Afrikan symbols on that money.
That symbol, by the way, has much deeper meanings only part of which can be revealed, because not all the meanings are known. One of them is the all seeing eye of God which happens to be the son - since it is the right eye. It can be broken down into various pieces if you take away the colour and separate the parts. What you will find is that each part is a hieroglyphic for a fraction, and if you add up all of the parts you will get 63/64th with 64 being the common denominator. You do not quite get a whole as there is a piece missing, and that part is supplied by God since no man is perfect. 
Afrikans wrote on the first paper called the papyrus, though many people say or believe that they did not have a literate tradition, but this is absolutely false. The word paper even comes out of Afrika from the Egyptian papyrus, so we were the first people to write on paper and also used other methods for conveying messages or information. For example weaving is writing, braiding is writing, building houses is writing, so in other words, The Afrikan could convey symbols and information through many different forms, of which writing was only one. 
This is inside the tomb of Unas from the 4th dynasty B.C, which would be about 2,700 years before Christ. Inside this tomb are the hieroglyphic writings, but what is important about it is that they are Bible verses. In other words, here is the oldest Bible in the world called "The Book of the Dead" according to the German person who named, but the Kemetic people did not call it that, they called it "The Book of Coming Forth from Darkness into Light." Again you see what happens when people change the meaning of Afrikan works.
The material that is on the walls of this temple in the Tomb of Unas has recently been collected, and along with verses from other tombs, forms this volume and other books. We are now able to read what was inscribed which is vitally important, because there are articles in the Book of the Dead or the Totem Book, that help to explain religions that occur much later on, such as the Hebrew religion, the Islamic religion, the Christian religion.
This is Djedefre. As many images of the Pharaohs as possible are being shown, because often times if you are shown any Black people with something in connection with Egypt, they will usually show slaves from Nubia as if the only slaves in Egypt were Nubians, when in fact most of the slaves in Egypt at the time if they were any, were Asians.
They are always shown on monuments as slaves but never as kings except during the invading period.
This scribe named Kai is often seen in books on Egypt and is one of the most famous images that you will find of him. One reason this picture became so famous is because it has light eyes and appears to resemble the hypothesis of European like people who settled Egypt. In the museum of Paris they will go to great lengths to display it right in the middle of the room so it gets a lot of attention.
Even when you go on tours in the Cairo museum the guides will often take a flash light and shine it into the eyes and say "notice the eyes". They do not want you to miss the fact that this could have been something that was not an Afrikan.
The same thing happens here with another very famous image that is found in books about Egypt, so imagine that if you were to simply stack the books with these kinds of images you would certainly get a distorted perception of the true situation in ancient Afrika.
In any case, Egyptians did make room for foreigners, because there was not that type of prejudice, so people could come in from Europe or Asia and rise up through the Egyptian schools and become knowledgeable, even becoming leaders in the Egyptian government. That was not atypical, but their physical features were atypical if you take the predominant population.
Keep in mind how this one is displayed, because you will see another image from the 12th dynasty of a Pharaoh which they have stuck somewhere over in a corner with no attention, and he is the most famous Pharaoh of the 12th dynasty. Moreover, it does not even have a name on it.
This is Mentuhotep, the man who founded the 11th dynasty. He is usually shown in coal Black. They would get the Blackest Black that they could possibly find to paint Mentuhotep. You often hear a whole heap of nonsensical explanations as to why they made him so Black, other than the fact that he looks just like the other Nubians around.
Here is a woman in the 11th dynasty getting her hair corn rowed. 
This is Senwosret II who was one of the kings of the 11th dynasty. Very seldom do you see this picture because it is not a famous one. You will see the scribes and the secretaries, but not the Pharaohs. In case there is any doubt as to his native features, here is a close up showing his lips and mouth (The Soup Coolers), those areas that are generally destroyed.
On the right is Senwosret III (Senusret/Sesostris) or Cecrops as the Greeks named him, and Senwosret IV on the left. Senwosret III's throne name was Kheper-ka-re. He was a warrior that established a colony on the Black Sea near Russia, maintaining thousands of African troops from Egypt in that region. Senwosret founded the City of Athens and helped to create the Greek civilization.
They all still fit the features of the typical Africoid that is presently found in the Nile Valley.
Below are pictures of the king mentioned earlier that did not have a name. Remember the scribe or the secretary of the high official who is always shown in the literature because he looks as if he might be European or white in appearance, well here is the King mentioned earlier, King Amememhet III who is probably the most important king of the 12th dynasty. Amememhet means God goes forth or he goes forth in the name of God.
This is the picture of that king which is sitting in a corner practically out of sight with no name at all in the Cairo museum. So you would not even know that he was a king unless this statue was pointed out to you, and quite obviously he is a Black king. In the middle picture you will notice that Amememhet III almost looks as if he is wearing dread locks.
Quite clearly if you show these pictures instead of showing sketches of the pictures, then the children and others will raise questions, since they in fact look like the people who still occupy the southern part of Kemet today, the Nubian population.
The question may be raised as to the attitude of the people at the Cairo museum regarding the racial makeup of ancient Egypt. Usually you do not get to see many of the people who work at the Cairo museum except the guides, who the average person comes into contact with. But if you actually get a chance to talk to any of the people in the Cairo museum or the director, you will find that it does not seem very important whether the person was Black or white.
The racial question does not come up too often with the people who are presently in control, because it has to do mainly with the current racial make up of the Egyptian population which is highly mixed, since in one family you can have individuals who are very light and very dark, so for them the whole racial issue has a different type of meaning.
The people presently living in Egypt are settler populations just like the population of the United States is a settler population. Those Europeans who migrated to the United States are the dominant population of the United States, but you would not connect Europeans to the ancient history of the United States.
In the same manner, the Arabic population came in after Islam was established in the 7th century, which is clearly after the whole of Egyptian history and even the Greco-Roman part had been completed by that time.
These people then are what you might probably refer to as middle easterners, but what must be remembered is that this population was also mixed. In other words, the people of Saudi Arabia, Persia and Syria already had the benefit of Black Afrikans who had moved out of Afrika and mixed with those populations in both Europe and Asia from around the beginning of Kemetic times. So everyone should bear in mind that the population of the Middle East is a mixed population.
Therefore if an ancient Egyptian were to look at President Mubarak of Egypt he would not consider him to be Egyptian. In fact looking at the monuments with people who had this physical type, they were always shown as prisoners.
In that 12th dynastic period, the Nubians or the Egyptians built fortresses that were south of Egypt in Nubia. This is a sketch of the fortress that was built at Beaulan in the 12th dynasty or around 2,000 B.C. It has a draw bridge and a motte with water running around it.
In other words, this type of architecture was already present on the Afrikan continent. Note very carefully that in 2,000 BC we have European castles even before Europe came into existence.
Here you can also view a section of the type of architecture that is now the centre of one section of the early building at Karnak temple.
This is the White Chapel in the Karnak temple which was the only part that was built during the 12th dynastic period. Notice here also that the God Ptah who you can see in the picture on the right, is Africoid.
This is the dynastic period after which you get the invasions, in other words, everything that was shown up to now was produced by the native efforts of Black Afrikan Egyptian people. That does not mean that the Asians who came in did not include Blacks among them because most likely they were a mixed population of Asian and Afrikan. Remember that Afrikans have been going into Asia for thousands of years, so to suggest that others who came into Afrika after those people whose physical features show them to be Black were not Black, is not necessarily true except for a few cases.
If you take the Rhind and the Moscow mathematical papyri (obviously not Afrikan names but renamed after those who found the data), you get material in them that dates back to this dynastic period. Take note of this example which shows the Pythagorean Theorem, but you have a lot more than just that.
In this papyrus there is Trigonometry, Geometry, sines, cosines, tangents, cotangents, secants, cosecants. In fact the whole body of elementary and high school mathematics that is presently taught in this day and age were already being learnt and taught in the Nile Valley by at least the 12th dynastic period or even earlier. It means that there was a high tech civilization existing on the banks of the Nile Valley with Afrikans as its teachers.
That is why all the Greek scholars came to Afrika to learn. Plato went there and spent 12 years and Pythagoras went and spent 22 years according to the testimony of the Greeks themselves. It was the most typical thing for Greek people to do during that period.
Remember Homer was the first who was supposed to have gone in to observe, but then the Greeks really got serious in the 5th dynasty when Thales, and then later Pythagoras, Archimedes and Anaximander went to Afrika for their higher learning. All these Greeks went in droves to Afrika to be taught at the feet of Black Afrikans, who initially gave them all their knowledge, which they later claimed was their own.
The Afrikans, it must be emphasized, were in the mathematical field even long before Kemet (Egypt). If you analyse the Ishango bones, you will see a picture on the left accompanied with a sketch on the right which shows what is inscribed on the bones.
It provides your first abacus, not from China, but in Afrika, located in Central Afrika in the Congo region. This goes back 8,000 years ago whereas Egypt (Kemet) only goes back about 5,000 years. Some people suggest that the Ishango calculating devices go back even further than 8,000 years ago. So this is one of the earliest mathematical machines that you will find in human history.
Now leaving the 12th dynastic period and moving past the invading dynasty to the end of the 17th dynastic period, you will see a few mummies, since it is very difficult to get enough pictures. This time you will not be seeing the carvings but the actual corpus delecti, the bodies of some of the royal mummies. You would think that as long as Egypt and Egyptologists have been around that there would be some great picture books filled with mummies, but this is not the case since most of them have been destroyed.
This is the mummy of Sekenenre/Seqenenra-(Tao II) who came from the south. Remember that in the 1st dynasty it was Mina who came from the south and unified the two lands that started Kemet (Egypt). Sekenenre /Seqenenra (Tao II) starts the war of liberation from the south. Look at his mummy, he is dark. All the royal mummies are Black, not only dark but dark Black.
When Egyptologists and others first saw these mummies, they dismissed them claiming that because they were Black it did not mean they were Black people. They speculated that the process of embalming or using bitumen, might have been responsible for turning the skin Black. This is what spurred Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop in almost utter exasperation to get up and conduct chemical tests on the skins of the mummies to establish whether or not they were really Black or white people.
To conduct the tests, one chemical is needed, a 100 watt bulb, and a microscope. The chemical is esobenzoid which you can place on a little swatch of skin, either the derm or epidermis that you lift from the mummy. Shine the light on it and view it under the microscope, and if it is a Black person the melanin granules in the skin will become fluorescent and allow you to count them because melanin does not deteriorate over time, and they will be clustered tightly together. If it is not a Black person it will not react in this fashion. Melanin remains present in the fossils of animals, and because it does not deteriorate it is a reliable indicator of the physical type of the person.
Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop was actually allowed to test some of the mummies from the Marietta excavation in Egypt, using this melanin dosage test that was outlined in his scientific paper and presented at the Cairo symposium. Indeed it was discovered that they were all Black people, but immediately afterwards, Dr. Diop was denied permission to do any further tests on the mummies.
Shortly after he had announced his method of telling whether the mummies were Black or white, the mummies mysteriously disappeared from the Cairo museum and are now located somewhere in the basement.
So if you should have the chance to visit the Cairo museum now you will not see any mummies from the old or new kingdom, and if you saw any at all they will be the Greco-Roman mummies since those fit the type that coincides with the story that has been falsely spread about who the ancient Egyptians were (white).
During this period the Asians came in and destroyed everything while not making contributions whatsoever, as there is nothing left of the Asian invasion to indicate their presence other than a few monuments and some coin.
So that was Sekenenre /Seqenenra (Tao II), which provides your first view of a royal mummy, and you can clearly see he was a Black person, who came from the south in the 17th dynasty. This leads into the dynasty of King Tut, Akhenaten and others.
The first image shows a high priestess of Amon. The second image shows a mummy still with corn rows in her hair which is a very typical Afrikan style.
There are many mummies like this but if you visit the Cairo you will not see them in the museum at all because they have all been removed and hidden from view.
Here on the left is the God Amon (Amen/Amun) from the 18th dynasty who came from the south, and on the right is one of the first queens of the 18th dynasty, not Nefertiti but Ahmose Nefretiry the wife of Ahmose.
Most people are inclined to have her lean towards Nefertiti because they like those necklaces and jewellery she wears. Ahmose Nefretiry was an important queen who was always portrayed as a Black Woman, but beyond that, she was one of the Great Royal Queens of ancient Egypt.
There were at least 7 Cleopatras but the one that most people talk about when they mention this queen is Cleopatra VII from the 30th or last dynastic period. Cleopatra lived like an Egyptian, worshipped like an Egyptian, and spoke Egyptian, so for those reasons it is believed that she might have been Egyptian which could also mean that she might have been Black, but this is not known definitely.
There are some coins that purport to have her image on them but it is not known when they were minted or by whom, so the question must remain an open issue, but in any case, she was not one of the important queens.
This is Karnak Temple the Arab name, or the temple of Ipet-Isut as the ancient Egyptians called it. This is the World's First Great University. At one stage the records indicated that they were approximately 80,000 students that matriculated at this university, which was the centre of the Egyptian mystery system. It is located at Luxor or Waset as the ancient Afrikans called it.
Here is the designer of Karnak temple. Now you are beginning to see Black people as architects, but in this case also, a Black person as the architect of one of the most famous buildings in the Nile Valley.
This is Amenhotep son of Hapu. He rose from a lowly beginning, a low socio-economic status and became the chief priest of the temple and therefore the chief designer of the canon or the rule by which the temple would be built and expanded.
© John Moore - Barbados, W.I. (November 2005) ©. All rights reserved.
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