Martin Bernal Black Athena Scholar Dies at 76

By PAUL VITELLO Martin Bernal, whose three-volume work "Black Athena" ignited an academic 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 steeped in the racism of their times, died on June 9 in Cambridge, England. He was 76. Enlarge T?his Image Martin Bernal, who ...

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