Classical history and the small-L liberal arts has been under attack by the racists and opportunists who label anything from white people either as racist or as stolen by white people.
Bureaucracy Kills: A Lesson from Rome
Written in 1963.
Ah yes, the “Black Athena” theory. Not only did the Ancient Greeks steal all the amazing black technologies and sciences, they hip-mo-tized all of them to forget any of that ever existed.
Not too shabby for a small group of ignorant white savages pulling off the greatest heist in the history of mankind.