Remains of the medieval Great Mosque of Kilwa, in Tanzania on the Swahili coast.Image: UNESCO/CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO |
Posted on 02/09/2025 7:13:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv
For the first time, analyses determine that some present-day Kenyans who identify as Swahili are genetically very different from medieval residents of the same region, while others have retained substantial medieval ancestry...
The researchers found that the initial waves of newcomers were mainly from Persia. These findings align with the oldest Swahili oral stories, which tell of Persian (Shirazi) merchants or princes arriving on the Swahili shores.
"It was exciting to find biological evidence that Swahili oral history probably depicts Swahili genetic ancestry as well as cultural legacy," said Esther Brielle, research fellow in genetics in the Reich lab.
Brielle is co-first author of the paper with Stephanie Wynne-Jones at the University of York and Jeffrey Fleisher at Rice University.
After about 1500 CE, ancestry sources became increasingly Arabian. In later centuries, intermingling with other populations from Asia and Africa further changed the genetic makeup of Swahili-coast communities.
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Remains of the medieval Great Mosque of Kilwa, in Tanzania on the Swahili coast.Image: UNESCO/CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO |
BTTT
Is that the PC term for a invasion force killing all the males and raping the women?
The impact on IQ from superior mental DNA.
Now when I see Uhura, all I can think of is this.
In Living Color - Star Trek : The Wrath of Farrakhan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slqtjqDHQqY
I’d like to know if USAID paid for this study...
Not in this case.
On the east African coasts, they had been in “rough contact” with the wider Eurasian world since Pharaonic times - Pharoahs in the Middle Kingdom are known to have sponsored expeditions to the south.
And there was a trade route from what is now Somalia to India - right from at least 100 BC - a Buddha statue and numerous Indian (mostly Tamil but also Gujarati) merchant writings and goods are found at the red sea port of Berenike dating from around the time of Christ.
The east COAST was intermingling, not violent, until around 800 AD and the arrival of, say it together, Islam. But initially the people’s converted to Islam generally peacefully, and then they started grabbing slaves from inland and selling them to the Middle eastern world.
East Africans - like Iman - have different features
As always with the PC crowd, it depends on who’s doin’ it.
More likely they were a conquered people.
I applaud post #10 for using the historic AD and BC time lines.
She is drop-dead gorgeous.
Hey! The PC term for that is, ‘converted at the point of a scimitar’. ;^)
That she is - and she still is gorgeous today at 69 years old
I find the BCE and CE as virtue signaling.
What special thing happened in 1 BCE/CE to make it the “common era”??
Nothing.
In China the Han were in the middle of their dynasty, the same with India and the Guptas, in Rome it was 723 AUC etc. etc.
Even if one is an atheist, the year 1 AD makes for a good marking point.
BCE/CE are just nonsense
That’s the Great Mosque of Kiva — in 1331, an earthquake struck and led to the collapse and destruction of the mosque. Despite the destruction that it caused, the arched roof remained protected in the east built with Claveaux. On the south-east part of the mosque, there is a large dome that may have served as the mausoleum of Sultan al-Hasan ibn Sulaiman, and it is the only dome that remained standing after the earthquake
In the late eighteenth century, the southern wall of the extension was used to create a new mihrab by knocking through the wall, leading to the roof falling through and being left as ruin.
in the show she supposedly spoke Swahili
Uhura in Swahili means freedom
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