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How Sheikh Anta Diop and Theophile Obenga challenged the theses making ancient Egypt a "white civilization"
Cairo, Egypt's capital, has been the scene of an unprecedented intellectual confrontation, the conclusions of which still resonate to this day. From 28 January to 03 February 1974, the world's leading Egyptologists, recognized specialists in their field, met in Cairo at an international symposium under the auspices of UNESCO.