[alphonsegaston]

>At the risk of being reductionist, this article strikes me as being in a similar vein to "Ancient Egyptians were black!". That is, an attempt to elevate a modern minority group to higher prestige by attributing to them historical achievements they didn't really have any part in.

It would sound less reductionist if you had applied the same characterization to the nebulous, modern fiction of “whiteness” and its invented appeals to Greco-Roman traditions.