Martin Gardiner Bernal ndiye muzvinafundo anobuda paCornell University, anonyanya kuzivikanwa nebhuku rake "Black Athena". Iri bhuku rinoongororazve pesvedzero yetsika dzevaIjipita pamabviro etsika nemagariro echiGiriki.
Vhoriyamu yekutanga ye "Black Athena" yakanga yamutsa muFrance, sepakutanga muAnglo-Saxon world, maitiro anodakadza. Yayo nhoroondo uye magariro kuvaka patsva kweshanduko kweiyo pfungwa iyo yakaumbwa nezvekwakatangira hupfumi hwechiGreek, uye nenzira iyo iyo yakashanduka zvichienderana nemufananidzo uyo Europe yaive nenzvimbo yayo uye basa rayo munyika, rakarumbidzwa sekuratidzira kusingaperi kana kushoropodzwa semubatanidzwa.
Ichipedzisa kuongorora kwenyaya iyi, ongororo iyi "L'Histoire" yakanyora muna Kukadzi 1997, kubva pachinyoreso chaMaurice Sartre: yezvokuchera matongo, hapana anoipokana. Asi, zvaive zvakafanira here kukwidza muchina wehondo uyu kurwisa vapanduki vavo? Pamwe hongu, pakupedzisira, sezvo iri bhuku, rinoshatirisa uye rakanyanyisa pazviitiko zvakawanda, rinonakidza kunyange mukuwedzeredza kwaro, rinosungira munyori wenhoroondo kuti azviongorore mugirazi uye kuti aongorore ipapo zvakasara zvekare zveEurope zvakazadzwa nezvekunaka kwake munzira yaanotarisa kune imwe. (MuIjipita, chiGiriki kana chiRungu chamazuva ano. "
Muvhoriyamu yake yechipiri, yakazvipira kune Zvakanyorwa uye Zvekuchera matongo zvinotsigira "yakadzokororwa yekare modhi" yeMiddle East zvinokonzeresa kune yakare Girisi, Martin Bernal anoongorora zvakadzama izvo zvinhu zvezvinhu zvinosimbisa chokwadi uye kukosha kutaurirana pakati peEjipitori, nyika dzeLevant nenyika yese yeAegean panguva yeBronze Age, ndiko kuti pakati pa3400 na1100 BC. Anotarisana navo neruzivo rwunopihwa nengano, ngano, zvitendero zvekunamata uye nezvimwe zvemitauro. Anogumisa kuti kutaurirana pakati penyika yeAegean neMiddle East kwave kwakakosha zvakanyanya kupfuura kunogamuchirwa. Inopa chikafu chitsva panhaurirano iri kuwanda, iyo masayendisiti anobva kumatunhu ese anopa uye izvo pasina mubvunzo zvichashandura zvirevo zvematanho uye zvinangwa zvetsika yakajairika yezvidzidzo zvekare.
