Black Athena

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Black Athena

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Black Athena - series of three essays written by Martin Bernal and published in 1987, 1991, and 2006. This book is the 6500th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Black Athena” in English Wikipedia has 55.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 39 references and 14 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 6500th most popular in books.

In June 2025 the article “Black Athena” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Black Athena”, its content was written by 156 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 260 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Black Athena is on the 6500th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 186 times in English Wikipedia and cited 237 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #22153 in August 2024
  • Global: #55880 in February 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #195091 in September 2009
  • Global: #248059 in April 2024

There are 10 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Black Athena
55.4176
2Catalan (ca)
Black Athena
33.5053
3Russian (ru)
Чёрная Афина
27.4327
4Portuguese (pt)
Black Athena
24.87
5Turkish (tr)
Kara Athena
22.4166
6German (de)
Black Athena
22.3451
7Arabic (ar)
أثينا السوداء
6.4787
8Italian (it)
Atena nera
5.7333
9Spanish (es)
Atenea Negra
4.869
10Esperanto (eo)
Nigra Ateno
1.148
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Black Athena" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Black Athena
641 305
2Spanish (es)
Atenea Negra
55 361
3Italian (it)
Atena nera
46 505
4German (de)
Black Athena
25 079
5Turkish (tr)
Kara Athena
24 672
6Arabic (ar)
أثينا السوداء
12 963
7Russian (ru)
Чёрная Афина
7 270
8Portuguese (pt)
Black Athena
2 028
9Esperanto (eo)
Nigra Ateno
229
10Catalan (ca)
Black Athena
26
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Black Athena" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Black Athena
1 976
2Italian (it)
Atena nera
166
3Russian (ru)
Чёрная Афина
137
4Spanish (es)
Atenea Negra
120
5Portuguese (pt)
Black Athena
80
6Turkish (tr)
Kara Athena
46
7German (de)
Black Athena
41
8Arabic (ar)
أثينا السوداء
34
9Esperanto (eo)
Nigra Ateno
10
10Catalan (ca)
Black Athena
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Black Athena" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Black Athena
156
2Italian (it)
Atena nera
36
3German (de)
Black Athena
21
4Spanish (es)
Atenea Negra
16
5Turkish (tr)
Kara Athena
14
6Arabic (ar)
أثينا السوداء
8
7Esperanto (eo)
Nigra Ateno
3
8Catalan (ca)
Black Athena
2
9Portuguese (pt)
Black Athena
2
10Russian (ru)
Чёрная Афина
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Black Athena" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Black Athena
3
2Arabic (ar)
أثينا السوداء
0
3Catalan (ca)
Black Athena
0
4German (de)
Black Athena
0
5Esperanto (eo)
Nigra Ateno
0
6Spanish (es)
Atenea Negra
0
7Italian (it)
Atena nera
0
8Portuguese (pt)
Black Athena
0
9Russian (ru)
Чёрная Афина
0
10Turkish (tr)
Kara Athena
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Black Athena" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Black Athena
186
2Russian (ru)
Чёрная Афина
9
3Arabic (ar)
أثينا السوداء
8
4Portuguese (pt)
Black Athena
8
5Spanish (es)
Atenea Negra
7
6Italian (it)
Atena nera
7
7German (de)
Black Athena
6
8Turkish (tr)
Kara Athena
4
9Esperanto (eo)
Nigra Ateno
2
10Catalan (ca)
Black Athena
0
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
أثينا السوداء
caCatalan
Black Athena
deGerman
Black Athena
enEnglish
Black Athena
eoEsperanto
Nigra Ateno
esSpanish
Atenea Negra
itItalian
Atena nera
ptPortuguese
Black Athena
ruRussian
Чёрная Афина
trTurkish
Kara Athena

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#195091
09.2009
Global:
#248059
04.2024

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#22153
08.2024
Global:
#55880
02.2005

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Black Athena from Wikipedia articles about Martin Bernal, Athena, John Desmond Bernal, Pyramid and Salamis Island. Whereas reading the article about Black Athena people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Martin Bernal, Pseudoarchaeology, Mary Lefkowitz, Life of Sethos and Pre-Greek substrate.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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