A book of the beginnings

Gerald Massey, an intellectual and freethinker, turned his considerable study in the subject of Egyptology into A Book of the Beginnings, a daring declaration that ancient Egypt is the genesis of all civilisation. His claims, which were revolutionary at the time—nearly a century before the finding of three-million-year-old human remains in Africa—resonate loudly now, as molecular biology makes matching discoveries alongside the still-raging creation-versus-evolution debate. Massey establishes the Egypt-centric stance in Volume I with a thorough comparative investigation of language, names, and mythology, going not just into our most fundamental behaviors of naming and communicating, but also into man’s adored, universal narratives of death, awakenings, and love.