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... Breasted says , " If the writing of the Egyptian had remained merely a series of pictures , such words as " belief " , hate , " " love , " " beauty , " and the like would never have been written . But when a large number of his pictures ...
... Breasted says , " If the writing of the Egyptian had remained merely a series of pictures , such words as " belief " , hate , " " love , " " beauty , " and the like would never have been written . But when a large number of his pictures ...
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... . " Shorthand " ( Heffiey Collection ) N.Y. Public Library , U.S.A. * IDSD . v . 261 . " The Conquest of Civilization " by James H. Breasted , p.53 , 1926 AFRICANS TAUGHT MATHEMATICS TO THE GREEKS " Mathematics , " 18.
... . " Shorthand " ( Heffiey Collection ) N.Y. Public Library , U.S.A. * IDSD . v . 261 . " The Conquest of Civilization " by James H. Breasted , p.53 , 1926 AFRICANS TAUGHT MATHEMATICS TO THE GREEKS " Mathematics , " 18.
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... Breasted says , " The Egyptians soon devised a convenient equipment for writing . He found out that he could make an excellent paint or ink by thickening water with a little vegetable gum and then mixing in soot from the blackened pots ...
... Breasted says , " The Egyptians soon devised a convenient equipment for writing . He found out that he could make an excellent paint or ink by thickening water with a little vegetable gum and then mixing in soot from the blackened pots ...
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Accra African Glory AFRICAN HISTORY AFRICAN MOTHERS AFRICANS CREATED Africans know Almoravids Ancient Egypt Ancient Egyptians Ancient Empire Ancient Ghana Ancient History Arabs Architecture black queen Breasted says Briffault C. F. Volney century Charles Rollin Cicero City of Ghana civilisation Color Conquest of Civilization contributions CREATED THE SCIENCE discovery of paper divided into thin Earl Sweeting Empire of Ghana Esop Esop's Ethiopians Father of Medicine Ghana AFRICAN Ghana Empire Ghanaian Greece Greeks Herodotus Ibn Khaldoun Idrise illustrated pamphlets Imhotep J. A. Rogers J. C. de Graft-Johnson James H King knowledge of African Kwame Nkrumah Leo Frobenius light Makeda Moslem township Nile Osagyefo Dr pagan town papyrus permitted to practise phonetic signs possessed Queen of Sheba race recorded Red robe dictating reeds Roman Senators shorthand Sir J. G. Wilkinson Solomon thin flakes Timbuctoo Tiro University of Sankore Voice of Africa W. E. B. DuBois West Africa World and Africa writing