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12 May, 2021 - 04:38 Ancient Sunflower

The Green Sahara

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Since learning about when the Sahara was lush and green and became the great desert due to a cyclic earth wobble that moved all the rains away, I’ve been fascinated by several questions. Who lived there, where did they come from and where did they go? The last question is answered by assuming they fled to the Nile area and jump started Egypt’s civilization. So that raises the basic question of how high a civilization did they have? Anyone else interested? I’ll confess to superficial knowledge based on You Tube videos on the topic of the Green Sahara. I just can’t help suspecting that

17 October, 2014 - 15:39 angieblackmon

Egypt Street Views

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A friend of mine posted this article on FB. It's pretty neat! Sure it's not the same as actually being able to go and see it in person, but it's as close as I'm currently going to get! :)

http://www.greenprophet.com/2014/10/walk-like-an-egyptian-using-google-s...

here's the view of the pyramid of Khafre:

28 September, 2014 - 20:30 Ancient Times

Dogon Creation Myths

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Isolated topographically and culturally from the outside world for countless centuries, they may well appear on first sight to be exceedingly unlikely receptacles of highly advanced astronomical knowledge which only goes to show just how easily we can be deceived by outward appearances.

http://www.atlantisrising.net/?p=241

22 September, 2014 - 12:10 Ancient Times

Dogon Cosmology & Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing

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By LAIRD SCRANTON

Along the cliffs of the Bandiagara escarpment in Mali – south of the Niger river and north of Upper Volta – live the modern-day Dogon tribe, a reclusive society consisting of approximately 300,000 individuals. To all outward appearances, they are a primitive tribe, who manage a near-subsistence living as onion farmers, metal-workers, weavers, and artisans under the often difficult conditions of a Sahelian climate, one that typically provides four months of rain followed by an extended dry season.