But Egypt is one of the most advanced Ancient civilizations and it was some historical context that the Greeks learned their mathematics, architecture, lore, etc from the Egyptian School of Mysteries. The Europeans are just Johnny-Came-Late and as a matter of fact their would be no European culture and renaissance if it wasn't for the Moors who came to Spain in 711 AD who gave them schools, bathhouses, libraries, and they pretty much gave them civilization really. Up until King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella starting to drive the Moors away from Spain because of some fanatical religious crap, and all hell broke loose. Anyways it does make sense and after all Egypt has been conquered by Alexander (hence the city Alexandria) so it explains how the author proves that the Greeks plagiarized from Egypt. http://philipcoppens...gyptgreece.htmlResponding to someone on public forum is not "stalking".
Also - citing one random book as "proof" hardly constitutes as one. In fact the book you've linked is one from 62 years ago, where ONE historian proposes a hypothesis about Greek mythology being "stolen" from Egyptians, and from what I know the book is not treated seriously as a scholarly source, and circulated mostly in circles not really having much to do with actual scholarly research.
Anyway, from literature I've read it's pretty apparent that *both* nations crossed paths and borrowed elements of each other across many ages, which is natural to every culture and religion - but a lot of elements of Greek and Egyptian mythology has not been mixed in times of antiquity, but somewhat later.
Basically, the whole Greek-Egyptian thing appears to be a legacy of Hermeticism - a hotchpotch of various beliefs slowly sewn together since times of late antiquity to create a peculiar syncretic, esoteric philosophy that has greatly influenced Europe during times of Renaissance and Reformation (Renaissance was a time where Europeans were wildly fascinated with antiquity and created, mixed or conflated many myths and traditions, which even now we oftentimes confuse for myths and traditions as they were during times of antiquity).
Anyway... these traditions are believed by hermetics to be based on writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus (Thrice Great Hermes) that was basically a syncretic combination of Hermes and Thoth.
Bit don't take my word for it.
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