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 [https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/african-origin-of-civilization by THE AFRICAN ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION]
   Scholars today recognize Africa as the source of our common ancestry. But in 1974, Senegalese scholar and humanist Cheikh Anta Diop shocked and challenged historians by asserting the influence of ancient African civilizations in his groundbreaking book The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality. This exhibition pays homage to Diop by presenting masterpieces from the Museum’s collections from west and central Africa alongside art from ancient Egypt for the first time in The Met’s history.
+=====Ancient Africa: art and archaeology=====
+[https://cas.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/casCore/documents/syllabi2122/EC%20-%20Howley,%20Kathryn%20.pdf by Ancient Africa]
+ Africa is often depicted as a land without history. Nothing could be further
+from the case. In fact, the traces of human cultural expression–art,
+architecture and objects, or what together might be called the built
+environment–stretch back tens of thousands of years across the whole
+continent, and demonstrate the important role that artistic production had in
+ancient African societies. Archaeology gives us tools to study this artistic
+production and interpret its meaning, thus enabling us to restore ancient
+African art to narratives of world culture and societal evolution.

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