Star sheds light on African 'Stonehenge'

CNN ^ | Dec 5, 2002. | Richard Stenger

[spetznaz]

Interesting.

Actually as an aside the genesis of the legends of white people in ancient Africa (which gave rise to stories that led to Burroughs writing the Tarzan novels) started when explorers in the 19th century found huge walled cities in central and southern Africa, and in those days they would not believe that 'savage Africans' had the ability to build such cities!

Hence the legend of 'white africans' and ancient lost cities of white people in the middle of Africa popped up.

[spetznaz]

Ping-a-linga-a-ling!

[spetznaz]

You too.

[APBaer]

fyi

[Sparta]

My has Africa fallen. Out of the ruins of great civilizations come barbarism and savagery. All this disproves is that Africans are incapable of forming great nations. The continent has been led astray by Marxists and other tyrannical swine.

[RightWhale]

Stonehenge?

Stonehenge?

Stonehenge?

[Prodigal Son]

There's a big hill right next to the Great Zimbabwe ruins- it seems like they would've built the "observatory" on the hill instead of down lower. When I visited these ruins we were told the tower was possibly to contain grain and it was within the enclosure in order to protect it. Makes sense to me.

H Rider Haggard's "She" is inspired by these ruins too I believe (good book by the way).

[blam]

Thanks for the ping

Eclipse Brings Claim Of Medieval African Observatory

[error99]

From here, I found this picture

and then I found this one here

[Ohioan]

My has Africa fallen. Out of the ruins of great civilizations come barbarism and savagery. All this disproves is that Africans are incapable of forming great nations. The continent has been led astray by Marxists and other tyrannical swine.

I think that you are confusing two separate declines. The fall of the ancient, probably Yemenite "Zimbabwe" took place many centuries before Marx, or the earlier egalitarian lunacy in the French Revolution. That the civilization mentioned, here, was probably of a people closely related to the Yemenites is suggested by the peculiar stone architecture, which closely resembles formations found in the Yemenite region of the Arabian Penisula.

There is no real evidence that any of the peoples presently in Southern Africa had much to do with its creation or its fall. (There is the possibility, also, that this had some connection with the legendary "King Solomon's Mines," which is not inconsistent with the Yemenite theory; as we know Solomon had connections with Sheba in that region.)

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[anymouse]

ping for later

[Gunrunner2]

Interesting.

Excellent book on the subject of pre-colonial Africa, from an archaeological bent, "African Civilizations," by Graham Connah. A bit academic in its pace, but very well researched and not full of afro-centric nonsense.

I recommend the book

[PsyOp]

I've got it! That must be the place where Farakan and McKinney say that ancient Africans learned to fly. The conical tower is probably a launch platform for their solar powered gliders.... ;-]

[MHGinTN]

What's under that 'big hill', a very early pyramidal structure?

[MHGinTN]

Not gliders, hotair balloons is more likely, as in the Nazca people.

[Publius6961]

Of course.
The University of Zimbabwe.

It's greatest feat is to have erased all trace of it's tremendous achievements in art, science, astronomy, medicine, law, government, aeronautics, space travel...

Not a trace!

Of course that doesn't mean it all didn't happen!

[Prodigal Son]

What's under that 'big hill', a very early pyramidal structure?

Dirt I imagine. It's a natural hill/rock formation. You can climb up on it and get some good views of the Great Zimbabwe and the surroundings.

[tictoc]

"African Civilizations," by Graham Connah

Thanks for the book tip.

Jared Diamond's book "Guns, Germs and Steel" also touches on the African empires (according to him, the Bantu people conquered and ruled most of Africa), although that is not his main topic.

If our industrial civilization kills itself off in a big nuclear conflagration, what could happen next would be that one group of Africans with greater resistance to radiation damage (there is greater breadth of genetic variation among Africans than in the rest of the human race) starts a new wave of emigration "Out of Africa"... and the whole cycle starts again.

[litehaus]

I agree that your answer is the right one...........LOL!

[Crazymonarch]

Definately a norse settlement by Eric the Lost