This historical negationism has been coupled with pseudoscientific academic research to reinforce the propaganda of the inferiority of Black people. This was done in an attempt to cultivate a justification and their moral rights as white supremacists to ultimately enrich themselves - by enslaving and using Black people as commercial products and by stealing their riches. For political and economic reasons, white supremacists of the time made pharaohs whiter, ignored, looted, or systematically destroyed artifacts all over Africa, and distorted archaeological and historical findings in scientific reports and debates.