Published 2025-05-12 · Duration 4:34 · Video file(37 MB)
Dr. Van Sertima explores ancient Egyptian advancements in science, medicine, and mathematics, challenging Eurocentric views of technological progress.
Transcript
We have turned it almost in one stir. We live in the world where although we have technology, that's a send machine flying out into space. We have turned it almost upon ourselves so that we've actually board a hole in the curtain of the earth. We actually have a hole in the Arctic produced by our technology. We have seeds that fish cannot even breathe. We have words of men. We're just to see their color. The color which is not true to the very ecology of the world. I mean colors of the colors of man have nothing to do with anything except responses to environment. And these things have become barrier to even being human. When you look at these things, you become aware of something else in the Egyptian. It wasn't just this technology. It wasn't just this technology. Let me close by saying it wasn't this bad. It was a different spirit. The Egyptian was taught, for example, to show pity and compassion to his brother. He was taught the share things with the hungry and the thirsty. He was taught to see the absolute value of the world. Value of justice and equality. Do you know they had state supported medicine in that time among early Egyptians? You didn't have to pay. It wasn't your wealth at the time in your medical treatment. Do you know that I'm worker? I work with a two-minute stuff in early Egyptian world. Do you know women were equal to men then? So that? Not only did they build a difference, you need birth of science. And their medicine and their mathematics and their time structure. But they built a different moral structure. They gave us the day, the transfer hour day is African. You take it for granted. There's no such thing as the transfer hour day. On the moon, it's different. In the attic, it's different. In winter, it's different. In summer, it's different. In the traffic, it's different. There's no time to pour out of there. The African's made that. Because they knew it in exactness how long it took for the sun to move in certain directions. The Africans knew when they brought it in their metaphysics and in their sciences. They knew the second of time. They created the second of time. You take it for granted. That second is African. They created the second of the water. They gave it to the world. There was a first to talk of it. It's the fifth. They created those things that created geometry along the NIA. They said there were arithmetic was inferior. That was just trial and error until the fastest and 967 in a big computer. The scientists discovered in this country testing early after the arithmetic. That of 22,000 to our 95 possibility compositions. The early Africans as Egypt had chosen the 46 most elegant. Which is what the computer would have chosen 4,000 years later. Therefore, let me close. Because the time has come when I do have to close. There is so much more to say. Let me close by saying. As is there, at the height of the negative two movements. When he was accused of merely saying all this and reacting in this way out of hatred and envy of the white. It is not out of hatred or envy of any race that I proclaim the greatness of my own. It is because I know that no race has a monopoly of intelligence, inventions or geniuses. Because I know too that the race of man is far from finished. There is a lot to do in the world. The race of man is only just beginning. And there is room for all of us at the wrong day of rule of history. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
ivan van sertimakemetic scienceancient egyptscience historymedical historymathematicsmoralityenvironmental ethicsequalitystate medicine