# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-bernal
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:00:39.663Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-bernal"
name: "Martin Bernal"
slug: "martin-bernal"
description: "Martin Gardiner Bernal \nwas a British scholar of modern Chinese political history. He was a Professor of Government and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. He is best known for his work Black Athena, a well-known controversial work which argues that the culture, language, and political structure of Ancient Greece contained substantial influences from Egypt and Syria-Palestine."
tagline: "British political historian (1937- 2013)"
gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1937-03-10"
deathDate: "2013-06-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump