Download Achieve By Petra – https://app.theachieveproject.com/PSL0001000 Get the Lynx Octave Speaker – https://lynx-electronics.com/ Download Obra, the life design app – https://orbralifedesign.com/download You asked for the sources, so here they are. After the two conversations with Nana Kyidomhene, the comments filled with the same request: show us the receipts. So Richie sent your questions back to the guest, asked him for his sources, then did his own independent research on top. This episode lays every major claim on the table next to the evidence behind it, so you can weigh it and decide for yourself. As always on this show, the point is not to tell you what to believe. The point is to hand you the sources and let you do your own reading. Some of these claims are well documented. Some are contested. A couple are one interpretation among several, and we say so where that is the case. SOURCES AND FURTHER READING Greece inheriting knowledge from Africa Herodotus, Histories, Book II, on the Egyptian origin of Greek religious practice. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Book I, on Greek thinkers travelling to Egypt to study. Imhotep and the origins of medicine Imhotep, active around 2650 BC, more than two thousand years before Hippocrates, who was born around 460 BC. Ancient Egyptian medical papyri including the Edwin Smith and Ebers papyri record prescriptions and diagnoses centuries before Greek medicine. Amen and the god Amun Amun was a chief god of ancient Egypt, identified by the Greeks with Zeus. Alexander the Great made a pilgrimage to the Oracle of Amun at Siwa. Note the contested point: many linguists trace the word Amen to a Hebrew root meaning to confirm or so be it, so this one stays an open question rather than a settled link. African cities described by European visitors Leo Africanus, Description of Africa, 1526, on the scholars and manuscript trade of Timbuktu. Al-Bakri, Book of Roads and Kingdoms, 1068, on the stone and acacia construction of the Ghana Empire. Duarte Pacheco Pereira, around 1506, comparing Benin City to Lisbon. Olfert Dapper, 1668, on the broad straight streets and ordered houses of Benin. Asante architecture and sanitation Thomas Edward Bowdich, who visited Kumasi in 1817 and published his account in 1819, describing latrines, some upstairs, and daily cleaning with boiling water. Ongoing architectural research on Asante courtyard houses supports the two storey building tradition. African universities and the Moors Timbuktu as a centre of learning, with the Sankore mosque and the Timbuktu Manuscripts recognised by UNESCO. The Moors, who ruled parts of the Iberian Peninsula for centuries, transmitting mathematics, medicine, optics and preserved classical knowledge into Europe. A fuller treatment of the Moors is coming in a separate episode. The Walls of Benin Recognised in the 1974 Guinness Book of Records as the world's largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. Fred Pearce, writing in New Scientist, noted the walls were around four times longer than the Great Wall of China. Surveyor Patrick Darling estimated the full network at around 16,000 km in 1977. On monumental building more broadly, over 200 pyramids still stand in Sudan, at Meroe and nearby, more than in Egypt. Scripture, translation and the Council of Nicaea David Carr, on the formation of Genesis and its engagement with the older Mesopotamian creation epic Enuma Elish. The Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, produced in Alexandria in Africa under the Ptolemies, as described in the Letter of Aristeas. The Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, which defined the divinity of Christ in the Nicene Creed, roughly three hundred years after the life of Christ. The dying and rising god motif James Frazer, The Golden Bough, 1890, grouping Osiris, Tammuz, Dionysus and others as versions of a recurring death and resurrection motif. This is genuine comparative religion, and it remains debated. Many later scholars question how closely these myths actually parallel one another, so treat it as a documented pattern that is contested rather than a settled equivalence. The historicity of Moses Philip Davies, who argued the Moses narrative is not straightforwardly historical. James Hoffmeier, an Egyptologist who defends the Exodus tradition, while acknowledging there is no contemporary record of a man named Moses. Do not take his word for it. Do not take ours. Check the sources and reach your own conclusions. Support the show
