Black Athena

"But in the 19th century, he asserted, with the rise of new strains of racism and anti-Semitism along with nationalism and colonialism in Europe, historians expunged Egyptians and Phoenicians from the story. The precursors of Greek, and thus European, culture were seen instead as white Indo-European invaders from the north."  I must confess that I have purposefully avoided talking about Bernal's scholarship lest I unwittingly give materials to Lebanese nationalists about the the European denigration of Phoenician contributions, among others. (thanks Talal)