On earth, the equator receives more sunshine than do the poles. This is due to simple geometry of the earth’s curvature, a given amount of sunshine in a beam falling on the equator, which points directly at the sun, has a much more intense effect than the glancing rays spread over a much larger area […]
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In The 1990’s New Pyramids Were Found Off The Coast of North West Africa?
9 pyramids in Tenerife and 2 pyramids on La Palma 6 lava stone step pyramids in Güimar/Tenerife 3 lava stone step pyramids in Icod, Sta.Barbara, La Mancha/Tenerife. The Canary Islands have been known since antiquity. Until the Spanish colonization between 1402 and 1496, the Canaries were populated by an indigenous population called the Guanches, whose […]
Estimated bt 98.2 – 2.6 Million Years Old: The Blue Eye Of The Sahara, Africa
This strange ancient formation from Mauritania has been dated to have occurred about 98.2 – 2.6 million years ago. This was used by NASA in the earlier stages as a land mark to navigate. The manner of its birth has been hotly contested. The location of this is in Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, […]
In 2013 A Large Underwater Pyramid Was Found Near Azores Islands
The pyramid was found in an area of the mid-Atlantic that has been estimated to be underwater for about 20,000 years. Reports from the Portugese American Journal claim archeologists from the Portuguese Association of Archaeological Research (APIA) have found archaeological evidence on Pico island supporting the notion that human occupation of the Azores predates the arrival […]
Ancient burial structures of former Kings from Qa’ableh, Somali, Africa
Most of these historical sites have still yet to be fully explored. The town is believed to harbor the tombs of former kings from early periods of Somali history, as evidenced by the many ancient burial structures and cairns (taalo) that are found here. Qa’ableh is a town in the northern Sanaag region of Somalia. […]
The Nubia Museum
Yes, this is real. There is officially a Nubian Museum in Egypt. Aswan’s rather fantastic Nubian Museum is one of Egypt’s best and a must for anyone interested in the history and culture of both ancient and modern Nubia. It documents the riches of a culture that was all but washed away with the building […]
Celebrities who you probably didn’t know are half-black
List of Famous People Who Are Half-Black. Every year, more and more people are born of parents of different races. Some very famous people have one black parent and one white parent, or any other ethnicity. Many of these celebs identify with both of their unique cultures. Several half-Black celebrities have gone on to have […]
The science of skin color
When ultraviolet sunlight hits our skin, it affects each of us differently. Depending on skin color, it’ll take only minutes of exposure to turn one person beetroot-pink, while another requires hours to experience the slightest change. Brazilin Model: Vanessa Fonseca What’s to account for that difference, and how did our skin come to take on […]
Iman’s Husband David Bowie Dies Of Cancer
Bowie married the supermodel in a romantic ceremony in Florence, Italy on 24 April, 1992. The couple were often regarded as one of the most stable in the public eye having been married for 24 years. They have one daughter, Alexandria Zahra Jones, born 15 August 2000. Iman is now a single parent raising a teenage daughter on […]
An artificial toe from Egypt-world’s first medical prosthetic?
The original Cairo toe, made out of wood and leather, is housed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The toe was found attached to a female mummy near Luxor and is thought to date back to between 950 and 710 B.C. If the parts were indeed used to help ancient Egyptians missing a big toe walk […]
5,600 years old Black Mummy Child of Libya, Africa
Mummification knowledge at 5,600 years old, this pre-dates Ancient Egyptian Civilization… Wan Muhuggiag (Muhjaij) Mummy, Tashwinat, Libya The Tashwinat Mummy of a child found in Wan Muhuggiag (or Uan Mughjaj), Tadrart Acacus, Fezzan, southern Libya, by Professor Mori in 1958. The mummy was thought to be at least 5400 years old and therefore it is […]
Book: Out Of Eden
In a brilliant synthesis of genetic, archaeological, linguistic and climatic data, Oppenheimer challenges current thinking with his claim that there was only one successful migration out of Africa. In 1988 Newsweek headlined the startling discovery that everyone alive on the earth today can trace their maternal DNA back to one woman who lived in Africa […]
Africa Is Not A Country
1.1 billion people on the continent of Africa is home to 54 different nations, more than 2,000 languages and four of the world’s 10 fastest growing economies, but is often painted with a sweeping stroke of doom and gloom. The continent had 7 female presidents. It’s the fastest growing market in the world for mobile […]
After 117 Years African Art Returned
Mark Walker outside of the Oba Palace in Benin (now Edo state) Nigeria posing with one of two statues that he returned to Nigeria, after having being looted over 117 years ago by his ancestor Captain Herbert Walker during the 1897 Punitive Expedition. This has opened the door to many requests for other stolen works, […]
Infrared NASA Satellite Imagery Uncovers 17 Pyramids
By analyzing high-resolution satellite imagery covering all of Egypt, researchers have reportedly discovered up to 17 lost pyramids, nearly 3000 ancient settlements, and 1000 tombs. When Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt in 1798, he brought more than 150 scientists and scholars along with his massive army. source: mashable The scholars fanned out across Egypt, describing the country’s […]
2 Pyramids & Sphinx Found in Zinder, Niger, Africa
February 29, 2012, the Nigerian researcher in Egyptology, Souley Garba announced the discovery he made which was a pyramid in the village of Dan Baki, 20 km from the city of Zinder. As explained by the researcher, there is even a sphinx in front of the pyramid (the sphinx is a species of large statue of lion […]
Queen Ankhesenpepi/Ankhesen-Pepy’s Pyramid
The discovered pyramid belonged to Queen Ankhesen-Pepy, the wife of King Pepy I. This particular queen was also the wife of a second King and the mother of a third. She acquired power when her six-year-old son, Pepy II, came to the thrown, and when she took the regency, she was the first woman in […]
In 2008 Queen Sesheshet’s Pyramid was found
The pyramid was found south of Cairo. It was buried in the desert near the famous Step Pyramid. It is thought to house the remains of Queen Sesheshet who was the mother of King Teti from the Sixth Dynasty. The headless, five-metre high pyramid originally reached about 14 metres, with sides of 22 metres. https://youtu.be/gygdp2gm69A […]
Science: The women with super-human vision
These rare individuals, mostly women, have a genetic mutation granting them an extra, fourth cone cell. As a rough approximation based on the number of these extra cones, tetrachromats might see 100 million colors. Since women have two X chromosomes, they could potentially carry two different versions of the gene, each encoding for a cone […]
1 Million Year Old Human Artifacts Found in South Africa in 2013
Archaeologists from the University of Toronto and the University of Cape Town have unearthed a large number of Early to Middle Pleistocene stone artifacts including hand axes, flakes and other tools at an archaeological site near the town of Kathu in Northern Cape Province, South Africa. The site, named the Kathu Townlands, is one of the […]
Rare blue diamond found in South Africa
A fabulous blue diamond worth tens of millions of euros has been discovered at a South African mine. The acorn-sized diamond, whose colour makes it one of the rarest in the world, was unearthed at the Cullinan mine near Pretoria Another blue diamond, weighing 25.5 carats, found at the same mine last year sold for […]
South African Diamonds
DeBeers sold its mines to Petra, and DeBeer’s contract model of doing business is less volatile than Petra’s selling through tenders. The future of the benefication industry in South African, says Kaplan, may mean more consolidation and fewer players. “The diamonds will be in fewer local hands.” Read More: jewishbusinessnews.com/2014/09/15/fewer-diamonds-stay-in-south-africa-for-cutting-and-polishing
Platinum mining in South Africa
The history of platinum mining can be traced as far back as Ancient Egypt, where platinum – probably without knowledge of its eventual value – was used for writing inlays on little statuettes. Platinum mining would only be introduced to western civilization in the 17th century – when Spanish conquerors considered it a waste product […]
South African Mines
South Africa’s total reserves, estimated to be worth $2.5-trillion, is the world’s largest CNBC Africa’s Christine Mhundwa spoke to the mining players. Sizwe Mncwango CEO of Thebe Energy and Resources joins CNBC Africa for an outlook on the mining sector.
Nuri Pyramids in Sudan, Africa
This was a major find from the Boston Museum fine arts at the Nuri pyramid complex in Northern Sudan, during the early 20th century. Both the statue and the Sarcophagus from Northern Sudan is now housed in the Boston Museum of fine art. The coffin or sarcophagi is very huge, and the floor of in […]
Satelites Found (2,000 yrs) Ancient African Kingdom in Libya
New satellite images have revealed more than a hundred ancient fortified settlements still standing in the Sahara. The settlements, located in what today is southern Libya, were built by the Garamantes, a people who ruled much of the area for nearly a thousand years until their empire fragmented around 700 AD. Source: Garamantic Ruins above- Credit: […]
Queen Tin Hinan Of The Tuareg People
Tin Hinan is the name given by the Tuareg to a 4th-century woman of prestige whose monumental tomb is located in the Sahara at Abalessa in the Hoggar region of Algeria. The legendary Queen of the Tuareg people, the matrilineal desert-dwelling Berbers who are famous for their blue clothing—and for the fact that it’s their […]
Estimated 15,000 Pre-historic rock art paintings from Tassili, Sahara Desert of North Africa
Tassili n’Ajjer is a vast plateau in south-east Algeria at the borders of Libya, Niger and Mali, covering an area of 72,000 sq. km. The exceptional density of paintings and engravings, and the presence of many prehistoric vestiges, are remarkable testimonies to Prehistory. From 10,000 BC to the first centuries of our era, successive peoples left […]
Tanzanite Gem Stone from Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, East Africa.
Tanzanite; 1,000 times rarer than diamonds. Tanzanite is the blue/violet variety of the mineral zoisite (a calcium aluminium hydroxyl Sorosilicate) belonging to the epidote group. It was discovered in the Mererani Hills of Manyara Region in Northern Tanzania in 1967, near the city of Arusha and Mount Kilimanjaro. Tanzanite is used as a gemstone, and […]
Who Are The “Gypsies”?
Source: www.gypsydance.co.uk A study published in 2012 concluded that Romani populations have a high frequency of a particular Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA that are only found in populations from South Asia. It is now thought that the Roma people migrated to Europe from India about 1,500 years ago. https://youtu.be/z70wX8wLRtI Romani with their wagon, photographed […]