Rick Riordan Quotes
What about King Tut’s tomb?” I protested. “That boy king?” Zia rolled her eyes. “Boring. You should see some of the good tombs.
Riordan, Rick. The Red Pyramid. Disney/Hyperion Books, 2010, p. 288.
6th Baron Byron. England in the 18th Century was fascinated with Egyptian history, archeology, and art
Amen ho tep IV. This Pharaoh adopted a monotheistic religion and imposed it upon Egypt where he could. However, as soon as he died, he was painted as a criminal for the heretical view of monotheism. It is not known whether he came upon the monotheistic concept independently or was influenced by the Jews who had first promulgated the idea. Some argue that Akhenaton was not a strict monotheist because for required the worship of the one God, Aten, but did not ban the worship of the other Egyptian gods though he personally, and his wife Nefertiti, were monotheistic.
Studies of Egypt were running headlong into contradictions of the age of man as dictated by the religious authorities of the time. Adam and Eve were fixed at about 4,000 BC by most authorities, but at that time the Egyptian civilization was quite fully developed. How did the Egyptians have the time to develop? Southall’s solution was this.
There are a small body of historians who believe that the Ancient Egyptians were dark skinned Africans and that American and European archeologists and historians, together with their Arab counterparts and Arab workers, have either unwittingly or deliberately ignored or erased the evidence that Ancient Egyptians were Black. 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, and Cleopatra was descended from him and more traditional Egyptians. The Black Egyptian notion seems to have emanated from a statement made by Black leader, Marcus Garvey {618973} .
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.
