Rick Riordan Quotes
I may be biased, but I think jackals are cute and cuddly, even if they were known for digging up graves in Ancient Egypt.
Riordan, Rick. The Throne of Fire. Disney Hyperion, 2011.
What Garvey believed about Egypt was not quite true. However, there was a more important grain of truth in Garvey’s assertion, but he was not aware of it as the science did not emerge until the latter part of the 20th century. Specifically, all humans today genetically had a common Black ancestor in Africa. In that sense, at one point, there were no other humans but Blacks, and they certainly ruled their world. However, man moved out of Africa to inhabit much of the world and different racial attributes evolved over time. See {618972} for a modern pickup of Garvey’s notion. The majority of historians and archeologists believe that ancient Egypt was a multi-racial society with extensive intermarriage. The Nubians to the South (Sudan) were and are very dark-skinned, the Lybians in North Africa were much like the Arabs of toady, and there were Greeks and other Caucasians who were in Egypt which was one of the centers of world civilization that attracted people from all over. The Pharoh of Egypt, Ptolemy was a white Greek—one of the Generals of Alexander the Great, (for whom Alexandria was named) and Cleopatra was descended from him and more traditional Egyptians.
Richard Russell Riordan Jr. is an American author. He is known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, about a teenager named Percy Jackson who discovers he is a son of the Greek god Poseidon. Riordan's books have been translated into forty-two languages and sold more than thirty million copies in the US. 20th Century Fox adapted the first two books of his Percy Jackson series as part of a series of films. His books have spawned related media, such as graphic novels and short story collections.
