Aryan Warlords in their Chariots
Edmund Leach, 2 April 1987
Black Athena: The Afro-Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilisation.
by Martin Bernal.
Free Association, 575 pp., £30, March 1987,0 946960 55 0 Show More
by Martin Bernal.
Free Association, 575 pp., £30, March 1987,
“... I attended English boarding-schools from 1919 to 1928, aged eight to 18. I there learned that, despite the slaughterhouse of the 1914-1918 War, European civilisation was without any question the greatest that had ever existed. It derived from the Glory that was Greece and the Grandeur that was Rome, but it was not to be thought of as, in any significant sense, a Mediterranean civilisation: it had been the creation of fair-skinned Europeans who spoke a variety of Indo-European languages akin to Persian and Sanskrit ... ”