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FROM PANGEA TO THE PYRAMIDS |
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Have you ever noticed how the continents look like they could all fit
together in a giant jigsaw puzzle? Well that ’s
because they were, all together that is, until about 200 million years ago.
And then Pangea, the super-continent, began to break apart.
The Earth ’s
surface, its "crust," is made up of a number of huge plates that are slowly,
ever so slowly, shifting. Earthquakes are the sudden, violent release of the
ferocious, pent-up energy this process produces. The African mainland is
located on one huge "tectonic" plate. The Arabian peninsula, which is
gradually pulling away from the continent, is on another. The narrow channel
that is the Red Sea was made by the relentless rubbing together of these two
tectonic plates.
The tension from this tear in the Earth's surface runs down the entire
eastern half of the continent producing the Great Rift Valley, the longest
"fault line" on earth. The Nile, longest river in the world, begins in the
waters of the Great Lakes in the mountainous highlands at the center of the
Great Rift Valley. It flows 4,000 miles north to empty out into the
Mediterranean Sea...
One of the principal human attributes is the ability to
make and use tools. The oldest fossil remains of tool-using creatures are
found in the Ethiopian section of the Great Rift Valley. They are at least
5,000,000 years old... Science now informs us that all Europeans are
descended from a group of no more than 50 Africans who left the continent
between 60,000 and 27,000 years ago. And Asians, we are told, descended from
people who left Africa 200,000 - 100,000 years ago...
For the last 6,000 years or so, the northern third of the continent has been
drying, thereby becoming what we now call the Sahara Desert. Over time, as
conditions worsened, the population of the region converged on the lakes and
waterways that remained, the mighty Nile River was the most important by
far. Along its fertile banks, washed with thick black soil from the heart of
Africa, there arose the earliest civilization.
Around 4,000 BC the Nile was lined with a series of agricultural communities
which gradually grew in size and complexity. By 3100 BC, two mighty
kingdoms had developed in the last few hundred miles before the Nile reaches
the Mediterranean. Today we know them as Upper and Lower Egypt. After a
climactic conflict they were united as one, and the ruler of the two lands
became known as the "Pharaoh." The Pharaohs, hundreds of kings and queens in
scores of dynasties, would go on to rule Egypt for more than 3000 years.
Soon after Egypt was unified, the Great Pyramids at Giza, near modern day
Cairo were constructed to commemorate this landmark event.
Egyptian colonies
and military power eventually extended far and wide, penetrating deep into
southeastern Europe, southwest Asia, Arabia and much of the nearby Sahara.
The Egyptians exchanged trade caravans with peoples throughout the continent
and with communities as far away as Pakistan. It ’s
believed that Egyptian ships reached Mexico on more than one occasion, but
since the ocean currents move westward, they were unable to return.
The marooned Egyptians
apparently settled in the Americas, establishing communities with the local
peoples. The giant stone sculptures of the heads of African warriors (the
Olmec heads), and the pyramids of ancient Mexico evidence Africa’s
presence in the Americas centuries before the birth of Christ.
As for the Great Pyramids at Giza, they were built a thousand years before
the birth of Abraham (father of the Arabs and the Jews), and about two
thousand years before the legendary Trojan War memorialized by Homer in the
epic poems the Illiad and the Odyssey. About 2500
years after the pyramids were constructed, Socrates and other Greeks came as
foreign students to study in the Egyptian university system. After returning
to Greece, they were hailed as the first European philosophers.
The Nile Valley is the birthplace of writing, geometry and much of what we
today call math and science. The story of Jesus Christ and Mary appears very
much like a repeat of the Egyptian story of Isis and Horus. Before the Roman
Empire converted to Christianity, it followed Egyptian religion. The famous
French cathedral, Notre Dame (Our Lady), is located at the site of a former
temple to Isis during the reign of the Romans. (Isis was the Egyptian
goddess said to be the mother of the god Horus.)
Over time as invaders swept into Egypt, from Asia and Europe, much of the
original population of the Nile Valley dispersed throughout the continent.
The Dogon of Nigeria are one such group. Their religious ceremonies center
around the three stars in the Sirius constellation. The three pyramids at
Giza form the same precise pattern as the three stars of Sirius. And the
hollow shaft in the Great Pyramid at Giza is aimed at the brightest star in
the Sirius constellation. (This clearly indicates that the Great Pyramid
was, among other things, an observatory.)
It's believed
that in addition to the Dogon of Mali, the Gala of Nigeria, the Moors of
North Africa and the Shona of Southern Africa, many, if not most, African
peoples are descended from the Egyptians and the other pioneering peoples of
the ancient Nile River Valley... ( by
Arthur Lewin, author of Africa Is Not A Country: It's A Continent!) See
Stolen Legacy by George G.M. James, They Came Before Columbus
by Ivan Van Sertima, The Destruction of Black Civilization by
Chancellor Williams, Recasting Ancient Egypt in the African Context
by Clinton Crawford, A History of the African People by Robert W.
July, and the periodical The New Scientist, 5/9/1)
Questions, comments, requests for more detailed documentation?
AFRICA UNLIMITED 5/10/3
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