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Originally posted by daddyroo45
reply to post by Skyfloating
You know people with a less conspiratorial mindset than me wouldn't even think that hiding the truth about our true history,was a concerted effort.
Egypt has marvles yet to be discovered.The E.A.counsel will never let the truth out. It might mean that Egypt wasn't the first civilization.
Originally posted by Orion Omegon
I believe that there is much evidence to say that something massive happened to the Sahara some 12,900 years ago.
Orion
For much of the past 70,000 years, the Sahara has closely resembled the desert it is today. Some 12,000 years ago, however, a wobble in the Earth's axis and other factors caused Africa's seasonal monsoons to shift slightly north, bringing new rains to an area nearly the size of the contiguous United States. Lush watersheds stretched across the Sahara, from Egypt to Mauritania, drawing animal life and eventually people.
Originally posted by Harte
Originally posted by daddyroo45
reply to post by Skyfloating
You know people with a less conspiratorial mindset than me wouldn't even think that hiding the truth about our true history,was a concerted effort.
Egypt has marvles yet to be discovered.The E.A.counsel will never let the truth out. It might mean that Egypt wasn't the first civilization.
Absurd.
Everyone (but you, apparently) already knows that Egypt wasn't the "first civilization."
Harte
Originally posted by daddyroo45
I don't believe that Egypt was the first civilization. Egyptologists and historians CLAIM that Egypt was the first.
Originally posted by Pauligirl
Originally posted by Orion Omegon
I believe that there is much evidence to say that something massive happened to the Sahara some 12,900 years ago.
Orion
Rain
Lost Tribes of the Green Sahara
How a dinosaur hunter uncovered the Sahara's strangest
Stone Age graveyard
ngm.nationalgeographic.com...
For much of the past 70,000 years, the Sahara has closely resembled the desert it is today. Some 12,000 years ago, however, a wobble in the Earth's axis and other factors caused Africa's seasonal monsoons to shift slightly north, bringing new rains to an area nearly the size of the contiguous United States. Lush watersheds stretched across the Sahara, from Egypt to Mauritania, drawing animal life and eventually people.
quote Orion Omegon
sculpted stone found buried in a large pit beneath one of the mounds
Several years later, we decided to open three of them. Much to our chagrin, they yielded almost nothing.
All three, however, had enormous pits excavated in the lake clays underneath the surface blocks. The pits led to a mushroom-like sandstone rock, a natural phenomenon formed by the desert winds well before the deposition of the lake clays.
The rocks were slightly worked by knapping to form a mysterious, crude, nose-like projecting point at the northern side of the rock. Afterwards, the pit was refilled with the previously excavated clay. One of the pits had a piece of charcoal that radiocarbon dated between 5,600 and 5,500 years ago, thus situating the moment of construction in time.
Originally posted by makeitso
The Megaliths of Nabta Playa (PDF)
Does he mean the archeologists refilled the clay into the pit, or that the original sculptors refilled the clay, or both?
Homestead.com
Another major feature at Nabta is a group of thirty "complex structures."... they have been built over large mushroom-shaped tablerocks. The tablerocks were shaped by years and years of erosion and then covered by two to three and a half meters of playa clays and silts...The largest excavated structure reveals that a large pit was dug before the erection of the walls...It was dug down to the tablerock. They shaped the rock to have three convex sides and one side that was worked to form a straight edge that face north. In the pit they placed another large shaped stone or sculpture that resembled a cow or some other large animal...Once the sculpture was in place and the pit was completely backfilled, the surface stones were then erected and placed into position. The actual function of the complex remains a mystery.
Originally posted by Devino
what caused them to be covered by several meters of mud and why are these structures called tumuli? It seems the evidence shows that they are astronomical markers and not graves.
the discovery of Nabta Playa, a huge paleolake basin with hundreds of Stone Age camps, tumuli, groups of megalithic structures and alignments of stelae.
The megaliths of Nabta Playa stretch for about 2,500 meters, in an approximately north-south direction, with a slight deviation toward the west. There are several separate groups of megaliths.
Beginning from the north, there is a group of about ten preserved tumuli built of broken sandstone blocks, placed along the rocky west bank of a shallow wadi valley entering the basin from the north.
This wadi ends in a small cromlech – a stone circle – that has been identified as a calendar, placed on top of a small sandy knoll.
The tumuli included offerings of large articulating pieces of butchered cattle, goats, sheep and perhaps also humans. The largest and conceivably oldest tumulus contained an entire young cow – the most precious offering a herder could make – placed in an elaborate chamber covered by a tamarisk roof. This sacrificial cow was laid to rest here some 7,400 years ago. Because of the tumuli’s clearly sacrificial function, we named this shallow wadi the valley of sacrifices.
... Among the most interesting features at Nabta is the group of thirty "complex structures" located in an area about 500 meters long and 200 meters wide, on a high remnant of playa clays and silts about a kilometer south of the large settlement which yielded so many bones of cattle. Each of these structures consists of a group of large, elongated, roughly shaped or unshaped sandstone blocks set upright to frame an oval area about five meters in length and four meters in width, oriented slightly west of north. In the center of this oval there is one, sometimes two, very large flat slabs laid horizontally. Two of these structures have been excavated, a third has been tested, and drill-holes have been dug at two others. All are basically similar, although they differ in some details. All of the excavated and tested structures were built over mushroom-shaped tablerocks, the tops of which were deeply buried (from two to three and a half meters below the surface) in heavy playa clays and silts. These tablerocks are quartzitic lenses in the underlying bedrock which were shaped by erosion of the softer surrounding sediments before the overlying playa sediments were deposited...