Afrocentrism: The Egyptian Influence on Greek Knowledge

The Egyptian Influence on Greek Knowledge.

Thales of Miletus is considered the first Western philosopher. He travelled to Kemet (Egypt) as stated by himself and advised his students to go to Egypt to study. Deodorise Siculus, the Greek writer, came to Africa and stayed at Anu in Egypt. He admitted that many who are “celebrated among the Greeks for intelligence and learning” studied in Egypt.

When the Egyptians finished building the pyramids in 2500BC, it was 1,700 years before Homer, the first Greek writer, began writing The Iliad, the European classic. Homer is said to have spent seven years in Egypt, and studied law, philosophy, religion, astronomy, and politics. Many of the great European philosophers studied in Egypt because it was the educational capital of the ancient world. Pythagoras is known to have spent over 20 years in Africa. When Socrates wrote of his studies in the book Bucyrus, he admitted categorically: “I studied philosophy and medicine in Egypt.” He did not study these subjects in Greece, but in Africa!

In the area of medicine, the Africans (Ancient Egyptians) wrote such medical books as the Hearst Papyrus (7th Dynasty 2000BC), the Kahun Papyrus (12th and 13th Dynasty 2133-1766BC) which contains gynaecological treatments, and the Ebers Papyrus (18th Dynasty 1500BC).

On the walls of the Temple of Kom Ombo, they left records of the original medical tools they used in their operations. These tools consist of forceps, aircups, knives, sponge, scissors, triceps, a balance to weigh portions of medicine, retractor to separate skin, birthing or delivery chair, and the origin of the modern-day RX prescription symbol.

In 47BC, the medical doctors in ancient Kemet delivered Cleopatra VII’s son named Caesarion (“Little Caesar”). The medical procedure performed by these African doctors in the BC era to deliver this boy-child was named after Little Ceasar, from which we now have the medical term “Caesarean Section”.

When African doctors were writing these medical texts and performing all these medical operations, Hippocrates, the Greek (now said to be the “father of medicine”) was not yet born, until 333BC, almost 2,000 years later.

Source: Ubuntu Wa Abantu.