Black Women in AntiquityAuthor: Ivan Van Sertima

This volume provides an overview of the black queens, madonnas and goddesses who dominated the history and imagination of ancient times. The authors have concentrated on Ethiopia and Egypt because the documents in the Nile Valley are couminous compared to the sketchier record in other parts of Africa, but also because the imagination of the world, not just that of Africa, was haunted by these women. They are just as prominent a feature of European mythology as of African reality.

Paperback: 239 pages
Publisher: Transaction Publishers; 2nd edition edition (1 Aug 1995)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0878559825
ISBN-13: 978-0878559824
Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.3 x 1.4 cm