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100-Mile-Long Wall in Africa [Sungbo's Eredo]
Science Frontiers ^ | March/April 2000 | William R. Corliss

Posted on 03/04/2006 7:38:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv

Sungbo's Eredo, as it is called, is really an earthen embankment with an accompanying ditch. Whatever you call it, it does enclose an area 25 miles north-to-south and 22 miles east-to-west. That's a lot of earth-moving, for at some spots the "wall" measures 70 feet from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the embankment. Today, this impressive structure is mostly concealed by the Nigerian jungle. A thousand years ago it enclosed a flourishing African kingdom.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: africa; antoninewall; devilsdyke; gaskridge; germanlimes; godsgravesglyphs; hadrianswall; nigeria; offasdyke; sungboseredo; wansdyke; watsdyke
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To: Hegemony Cricket
there is a BBC program on this linkand another one on Offa's dyke in the series "search for the Dark Ages".

Alas, Glastonbury is not manmade, although there are huge hills there.

ALSO google to find the program "Standing with stone".

21 posted on 01/02/2012 2:48:31 PM PST by LadyDoc
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To: LadyDoc; Hegemony Cricket; Mike Darancette; SunkenCiv; blam; All

The jungles of Yucatan are also known for long elevated causeways. Then there is the Great Wall of China. These all provide similar advantages.
1) Impressive to the common man and invaders.
2) Good to move fast along the top to reinforce areas with problems or attacks.
3) Good view over hills and jungles, while traveling and from spaced towers and barracks.
4) Above flooding and snow drifts.
5) Unambiguous boundry lines.


22 posted on 01/02/2012 11:09:40 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
"The jungles of Yucatan are also known for long elevated causeways."

I've walked on a number of those with massive trees growing directly in the road-way...they're old.

23 posted on 01/03/2012 8:18:03 AM PST by blam
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To: SunkenCiv
We know quite a lot about political organization in the savannah kingdoms, but this indicates consolidation was happening in the rainforest earlier than I thought.

Good thing this is in Southern Nigeria. Muslims would probably want to try to blow it up.

24 posted on 01/03/2012 1:10:33 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

:’)


25 posted on 01/03/2012 7:22:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! May 2013 be even Happier!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Needs some editing... ;)


26 posted on 04/13/2014 6:33:48 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: albee

The expressways in Chicago were supposed to fulfill the same purpose.


27 posted on 04/14/2014 2:47:01 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: SunkenCiv

These areas have been under some continuous attention for centuries. Think about the areas of the globe currently sitting in jungles waiting to be discovered: Central and South America, Africa and Asia.


28 posted on 04/14/2014 2:49:03 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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29 posted on 08/27/2018 2:15:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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