Ancient Egyptian Technology and Race

Published 2025-05-12 · Duration 9:55 · Video file (83 MB)

Dr. Van Sertima explores the advanced tools and techniques of ancient Egyptian civilization, challenging the notion of racial identity and modern technology.

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Everybody said that in the early stages all we had were handmade tools. Sheikh Anthony Up, the Senegalese physicist, the greatest of living African historians, he's dead now, the greatest of 20th century African historians, he pointed out that an iron hoe had been found in the insterces of the great pyramid and he pointed out iron objects and he showed that there had to have an advanced smelting process in order to cut the stone i went to egypt last summer and that was something that I wanted to see with my living eyes I watched that stone I watched that granite I watched the quarries at Aswan and I looked at the standardization of the stone and I said to myself how on earth could these people cut this stone with copper and bronze tools. It is impossible. But the Japanese, they decided to cut the stone with the best of handmade tools from ancient time. The tools broke. Do you know what the Japanese had to do? They had to use air jackhammers,th century technology in order to cut the stone then they said everybody thought all they have to do now the Egyptians now the Africans with their muscles picks up this stone and put it on the badges the Japanese try to put it on the badges the badges capsize now they're dealing with two-ton stones. The Africans didn't just deal with two-ton stones, they went up to 50-ton stones. The Japanese using two-ton stones could not get them on the barges without the barges capsizing. So they had to use 20th century technology, steamboats. So now they said, all right, we got our air jackhammers and we got our steamboat let us proceed then they got to the shore and tried to take the stone out to the sand in the desert to put up the little pyramid do you know what happened the stone sank in the mud then they dragged out of the mud, The stone sank in the mud. Then they dragged it out of the mud, then it sank in the sand. They had to find 20th century cranes, the power cranes, in order to drag the bloody thing out of the sand. Then they tried to put it in alignment. It shifted, it cracked, it broke. Then they brought the helicopter. Couldn't put it in alignment. Then they went back and looked with humility at what the early Africans had done. Do you know the casing stones of the Great Pyramid, not a single one of them is chipped or cracked or scratched? And do you know what is the alignment the Africans achieved in those early times, which the Japanese today, the best in modern technology, cannot achieve? One one-thousandth of an inch of mathematical perfection in the alignment of the stone. The only people today who achieve that precision are jewelers with microscopes cutting fine gems. Do you know what happened? The modern Egyptians who had called these people in, they chased them out. They left a terrible mess in the desert, all these pieces of stone and holes and all sorts of things like that. They'd chase them out. So do not think you are dealing with something that people are going to come to terms with easily. There is a big effort still. I have to be with a lot of professors when i when i was called in the ratio i said look i don't have any time when i get to the conference i will talk no no no dr ban certainly want to know if rameses the second is a black man i said i don't want to comment on rameses the second until we to the conference, but I want to give you evidence that the Egyptian civilization in that early critical period was black and dominated by blacks. Do you know how they reported it in the newspaper? Van Sertema said that the race of Ramesses II was uncertain. Anyway, he didn't get away with it because I exposed him when I got to Dallas. Just that Egyptian Minister of Culture is not going to get away with it either because when my wife and I were in Cairo last year we decided to take pictures of wigs in the Cairo Museum. Now there are two things you can use to prove the early Egyptians were black. Take the skin from the mummies, which is what Diop did, using the melanin dosage test. Or go to the book, X-raying the pharaohs, where they have micro-feet, things of the pharaohs, and there's a special photographic process where you can actually see what the mummy looked like they're black they would not allow us to see the mummies anymore you're not allowed to see the mummy they said so that said that it is it is it is not a good thing it is humiliating it is grotesque for sadat what sadat said i could repeat so that said when he was here i'm a black man and i'm the first true pharaoh in 2000 years and he said that because he knows that his mother was sudanic he is one of the few of them who could claim to be a real egyptian he never had anything to say about the mummies they didn't want us to photograph those wigs that's the museum the great museum of the world everybody in the world goes to egypt that is the beginning of great civilization and yet cataloguesued as everything was, the wigs were not catalogued. My wife and I were photographing those wigs for half an hour. Here comes this roly-poly gentleman walking straight up into my vision, and I nearly ran him over. I didn't know who he was. I didn't even see him, and considering the way he behaved afterwards, I'm over I didn't know who he was I didn't even see him and considering the way he behaved afterwards I'm sorry I didn't knock him over he wanted to know if we had permits for a camera so I said my dear fellow how could we come in here without a permit you can't come through the door without a camera for a camera permit wanted to know if my wife was using flash i said no he said is it a video camera i said first of all it's not a video and secondly if it works you would have a permit for it may i see it please so we showed it to him he had to show him the passage and then finally he couldn't create an incident which probably is what he was trying to do he said okay I'm sorry I just want you to know that I'm the curator of the Cairo Museum I wanted to say big deal and do you know who I am. But, do you know what those wigs are they're african hair braided it's called lion's mane some lioness decided to braid her mate's hair now could you imagine that a lioness braiding a lion's hair it's braided hair and they call it lion's mane they would not put it in the catalog because those are the pieces of evidence they don't want to deal with they don't want to deal with that those are the wigs that were on the pharaoh's heads at times on the heads of priests and priestesses and when it comes to the science that is startling. It's not only the pyramid that stuns us. There is a building, the largest single building on earth, even to this day. It's known as the Labyrinth. It is found near a lake. It It was built in the Middle Kingdom somewhere around 2000 BC do you know that it has 3,000 room 1,500 rooms above and 1,500 rooms below Herodotus tells us that and in 1888 about a a hundred years ago, Petrie, the great British archaeologist, went down into this labyrinth. He said that if you were to take all of the temples, the great temples and cathedrals of Europe, you could put it in that thing, built by Africans. So that I want you to be aware of this incredible power that lies in man, when man is together. We are no longer together, we are a shattered people. But we can come together again as it is in consciousness. We can get a different kind of wholeness, a different kind of crystallization, a different kind of sharpness, a different kind of power.
Ancient EgyptKemetic ScienceIvan Van SertimaEgyptian CivilizationTechnologyRace