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Monday, June 24, 2013

Martin Bernal, ?Black Athena? Scholar, Dies at 76

Mr. Bernal’s work ignited a debate by arguing that the African and Semitic lineage of Western civilization had been scrubbed from the record of ancient Greece by 18th- and 19th-century historians.
    



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