Lewis, the Harvard and Cornell University trained professor, has challenged White supremacist notions about Kemet (Egypt) and Black people in his ground breaking book called-The Falsification and Fabrication of Ancient Egypt 3400 BCE to 500 BCE: A Survey of the Literature.

This was why starting in the late 1800s to the 20th century, many radical Black scholars rose up to challenge many racist White scholars on their distorted research on Afrikan history and culture, particularly ancient Kemet (Egypt).

Using research from ancient and radical White scholarship (i.e. Herodotus, Hippocrates, Jean-Francis Champollion, Count C.F. Volney, Diodorus Siculus, Gerald Massey, Leo Frobenius, E.A. Wallis-Budge, Charles Darwin, Dr. Louis S.B. Leakey, Basil Davison, Martin Bernal, etc), they labored to present the factual evidence of the Afrikan origins of humanity, the Afrikan origins of western religions, the Afrikan origins of western philosophy, the Afrikan origins of ancient Kemet (Egypt), Afrikan History, Afrikan culture, and Afrikan spirituality.

However, radical Black scholars saw how many White scholars were creating White supremacist ideology to justify the origins of humanity being in Europe not Afrika, Kemet (Egypt) as a White civilization, European slavery, European colonialism, White American segregation, the incarceration of Black people in America, and biological warfare on the Black community.

Now Dr. Breasted made these White supremacist statements despite the fact that radical scholarship revealed  that Kemet (Egypt) was a Black civilization and that Afrika is the mother of humanity.