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“Phoenicians and Hebrews, Semitic peoples both, have acknowledged Egypt’s historical precedence on the way of civilization along, in all objectivity, with their debt to ancient Egypt. Greeks, and Indo-European people, have also acknowledged the civilizing role played by ancient Egypt in antiquity.”

“For example, Socrates, orating on beauty in Plato’s Phaedrus, refers to ‘an oral tradition from Antiquity.’ Whereupon Phaedrus asks him: ‘What, indeed, is this tradition?’ Socrates answers: ‘It was the Egyptian god Thoth, I am told, who invented numbers and arithmetic, geometry and astronomy, not to mention draughts, dice, and, in particular, the alphabet.’”

Theophile Obenga
“African Philosophy: The Pharaonic Period: 2780-330BC”
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