In Sudan, This civilization is Rewriting History!

While I generally call for caution and reserve when posting threads based upon videos posted in places like YouTube and Bitchute, I am demonstrating that exceptions to any rule are always bound to exist.

This video is about African archeology, and the subject is described:

Doukki Gel, How a town neighbouring Kerma housed one of the most impressive civilizations in Africa to date.

Being no scholar in the field, I found this to be extremely interesting, offering a complimentary sense to historical Nubia, and their relationship to Egyptian society in prehistory.

Enjoy!

An interesting video and architecture resembles a lot like mechanical device..

a reply to: Maxmars

This is funny, the other day while at work I was wandering off in thought about where archeology should be branching off to next, and I thought of two places.
First, closing the gap between Gobekli tepe and Ur, and second, Africa in general. Especially the outskirts of the Sahara, and maybe work our way in.

Good find, looks like I have a few rabbit holes to go down!

a reply to: dollukka

That was the first thing that crossed my mind... looks like gears from above...

This architecture looks very unique to me... but like I said, I'm no expert.

a reply to: strongfp

There seems to be no end to the evidence for undiscovered, or at least unstudied, cultures and societies.

Please let us know if you find more about this... I'd really like to know.

originally posted by: strongfp
a reply to: Maxmars

This is funny, the other day while at work I was wandering off in thought about where archeology should be branching off to next, and I thought of two places.
First, closing the gap between Gobekli tepe and Ur, and second, Africa in general. Especially the outskirts of the Sahara, and maybe work our way in.

Good find, looks like I have a few rabbit holes to go down!

Give an archaeologist funds, and they'll dig anywhere.

For example, did you know that there's a discipline called "the archaeology of video games"? For real. Some of it is "dig up old cartridges" (yes indeed) but there's a sub-sub discipline that looks at older versions of games and how world maps and worldbuilding cultures change over time. It's a very dynamic field because the game industry moves so quickly.

Edited to link to a blog on archaeogaming: archaeogaming.com...

I would like to see three areas expanded:
1) The Amazon Basin
2) The entire African continent
3) Under the oceans out as far as the shorelines would have most likely existed before the Younger Dryas.

Everyone who says the lost civilization concept is bogus because we have never found any “real” examples are just not thinking. The whole absence of evidence being evidence of absence idea… We haven’t found it because we aren’t looking in many places and the places we ARE looking aren’t the most likely spots. Like us, those people would have been very inclined to build and settle along coastlines. And now those ancient coasts are 400+ feet under water. We should be looking MILES off of the current coasts and beaches.

Where I am in St. Augustine, Florida is literally ON the Atlantic coast of Northeast Florida. 12000 years ago, what is now beach front, Atlantic Ocean-front property would have been located in central Florida. Much of the evidence of the people who inhabited this land many thousands of years pre-Clovis is currently resting at the bottom of the ocean floor many, many miles offshore. Just because we haven’t found it YET does not mean it doesn’t exist.

Same with much of Africa. We haven’t found it because a lot of it is currently buried under thousands of years of sand build up and under sediment and existing jungle canopy. In the decades to come, once all of Africa (hopefully) puts the civil wars and lasting effects of colonialism behind it and advances like say, Nigeria, it would be amazing to see a surge in indigenous interest in their history and origins. And since those origins belong to ALL of us in many ways, it would be great to see legitimate foreign investment into the research that continent so seriously deserves.

Just knowing that we know so LITTLE about our own past keeps a big smile on my face. We can still discover SO many amazing things all over this planet. And once we figure out how to properly date quarried rock and stone and can find a way to safely and effectively perform deep-ocean archaeology, SouthEast Asia/Indonesia needs to be a bullseye for that particular endeavor. Then the mid-Atlantic ridge and the Azores Plateau.

a reply to: strongfp

I was really struck by the notion of sub-sea floor (is that a thing yet?) archaeology.

What you mention could provide a tremendous growth of information (assuming it's there, of course) in the mapping of human existence over the course of planetary history. There are already sufficient hints that our overall 'acceptance' of human history as currently reckoned is premature at least, and perhaps laughable, in what could be the final analysis.

Frankly, I really suspect that a global human culture once existed on out planet... but that's just me.

As you say, you can't honestly claim that 'we haven't found anything' when in reality your not looking. We have seen the effect of cultural pride, personal gain, and social gamesmanship on archeology, it seems all the rejections from "new" ideas precipitate from those facets of the archeological social order.

Apparently, there have been great advances in underground tunneling, and larger-scale studies are providing us with new knowledge about the state of the livable surface of the planet millennia ago. There's much to be learned... we really should get on it.

a reply to: Maxmars

Yup when you figure that people generally settle near the water, and then the sea rise (assuming the younger dryas impact is real) seems like we are missing a lot underwater.

originally posted by: Maxmars
a reply to: strongfp

There seems to be no end to the evidence for undiscovered, or at least unstudied, cultures and societies.

Please let us know if you find more about this... I'd really like to know.

Most of the sources I see at a quick glance aren't in English... like this French Wikipedia page: fr.wikipedia.org...

a reply to: Byrd

Thanks for that.

My French is all but nonexistent, but it seems better what I found in English thus far.

a reply to: Byrd

That's a really interesting concept about the video games.
I don't dabble much in them anymore, but back when I had a lot more free time I always scoured every games nook and cranny, I think I would have been pretty good at that type of archeology.