Martin Gardiner Bernal was a British scholar of modern Chinese political history. He was a Professor of Government and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. He gained notoriety for his book Black Athena, work which argues that the culture, language, and political structure of Ancient Greece contained substantial influences from Ancient Egypt and Syria-Palestine.
- Occupation
- university teacher, classical scholar, historian
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- March 10, 1937
- Died
- June 9, 2013
