Secrets of the Sahara 1.0

Now for those of you that need more proof that the Sahara was NOT always covered in sand dunes and desert, we will give some evidence of that. And we will also draw the attention to the fact that it holds a great many ancient civilisations hidden in her deep sands. So, therefore we are going to spend some time and go through some of the structures and traces of culture that have been found (meaning there are others that has not been found yet) in and around the Sahara dunes. But also further south. Because if our mappings are correct, these structures we find are the remains of several Biblical civilisations like the more recent ones in the form of Greeks and Romans, but also the older ones like Assyrians, Babylonians (Chaldeans) and some of the Media Persians. And we are going to look at some particular structures, especially one that according to all local myths and folklore, were built by and used to belong to Hebrews or Jews. As the story goes they built it and hid in the desert being persecuted and killed from elsewhere. Traces from the times of trouble? Lets Dive !

Ancient Lakes of the Sahara

 So let us place some of the ancient Civilisations on the map shall we. The lands between the Rivers (Meaning rivers like Congo, Zambezi, the Nile and others), among these now dry areas we do find ancient Biblical lands like Assyria and Babylonia, Media Persia, Greek settlements scattered around and Romans, as they came later - they were all over. The last two especially in northern, West, South East and Central Africa. However they, meaning the Romans, also had control further south into the Promised Lands during the times of Immanuel.

Now most of you know the narrative, and that it is of such bad taste pontificating that Africa did not have any large and sophisticated structures made of stone, or had castles or anything like that. Just primitive mud huts right. Now that can quickly be debunked by reading a couple of books from the 1600 hundreds, as you will see, there were many structures and they elaborate cultures built around them. The Sahara desert, now much larger then back in those days if it existed at all, certainly holds such ancient civilisations beneath her deep sands. Romans and Greeks did indeed "cross" the mediterranean and you can even say they came out of what is called Northern Africa and settled in Europe at a later stage.

unsourced map of West Africa

 Now, if you go into the research of Dierk G. Lange, he goes deep into West-Africa and how it ties into Assyrian and Babylonian culture.   A big topic and very scholarly, founded in language and culture. West Africa was home to ancient Assyrian, Babylonian, Roman, with probably Greek and Persian culture as well. Now there are all kinds of theories about the Sahara desert from geologist and archeologist. When it went dry, the prehistoric rock artwork and the traces of fertile grasslands and or Savanna. Technically or rather scientifically it went dry, because the dry season got just to dry, this causes the air to rise, and a great rise it would have been. Without regular rainfall. Normally When moist air rises it creates low pressure and the rising moist air get liquid in the clouds and comes back as rain. This is a kind of principle for rainforest found in South America. But now, the Sahara just above the equatorial line is all dry, and not moist at all. So, the presence of water is very scarce. SoNiNi dried it up, and masterfully done so. By just using timing and delays. The whole circle of life and water is disrupted.

Ksar Draa - Castrum - Desert Castle

Now the Ksar Draa is a peculiar structure we find completely isolated from people, located in Timimoun Province, in south-central Algeria. Looks like a huge bowl built out in the sand dunes. It is very difficult to get there and needs to be a guided tour. The structure itself they say is very impressive and no comments about the fact the it was indeed Africans that built this. But at what point in time? And why build it in the middle of the desert? To stay away from people? Maybe. The things is this area was not always dry and sandy.

Stock image of the Ksar Draa

Local history is very scarce and if present at all. The one interesting thing that is mentioned is that in that region of Timimoun region in the south of Algeria, is were the Hebrews has either settled or escaped some nearby calamity. Could this be? Well, yes it could. But not likely because we are far from the Promised Land. The wall is very reminiscent of the form and architecture of Great Zimbabwe. about 2m high double wall, outside wall made of stone bound with clay. The internal wall is made only of clay. And the only access point is in the north. There are another series of rooms built into the two walls, but there is no staircase. Meaning no entry, so no way to get inside. This was a stronghold.

Drone photo of the Ksar Draa

The other theory is that this was a caravanserai, a stop for caravans crossing the ever growing desert, a controlling port and maybe a taxation point used by the Romans at one point. Perhaps the desert even stopped at this point, so last calls before you had to to trek through sand for weeks. Be that as it may, the construction of this type of building is very similar to the historically traditional Persian culture and building style. And we have many examples of that found within Northern Africa and towards the Near East. We are now talking empires like Sufi (check it very similar construction methods). This places Persia back on the African continent, were they belong. And remember the Romans and Persian fought historically, and this was their battleground, in the northern African continent. It is acknowledged, at least, that the Romans had lots of active trade in Algeria, as their link to the Sub-Saharan. Although the Roman Empire stretched straight through central Africa and down to the Southern parts, in its hey day. The fact that we are only finding remains in the uninhabited desert, tells the story that IF there were such cities from the past further down into Africa, the ancient cities are now underneath the modern cities, because guess what the people are still there, That is the reason why the ones in the desert makes such headlines, they have not been settled again. Not liveable. That is why there will be coming many discoveries in the deserts of the Kalahari in the future. Lots of cities lie buried there just like in the Sahara.

 Roman ruins of Timgad

If you travel to the Atlas mountains, at the edge of the Sahara desert, you will find the ancient ruins of the Roman city of Timgad. Now if this city, from a rather recent historical area, is the remains of Roman grand architecture. One can only imagine what lies beneath cities from Assyria and Babylonia, on the African continent. Lidar scans will reveal much of this in the future.

Stock photo of the Roman city of Timgad

The city of Timgad was huge, and so well structured and perfectly laid, with Roman precision mixed with some Greek influences. One of the earliest examples that we know that has a so-called grid system, amphitheaters, Greek inspired archways and elaborate watering systems. This city has been preserved much because it lied buried in the sand, leaving the stone not so exposed to the elements. A very important factor as to why, there say is no such city found in southern Africa (yet). Because time and erosion has done its thing, or its simply still buried underneath the sand. The Roman presence in Algeria has been downplayed, and with city names such as Constantine, it is clear that the Roman Empire may have had more of a base in Northern Africa then what is historically accepted.

If one wants to go deeper into this, the mysterious structures found in the Sahara have been studied by Joanne Clark and researcher Nick Brooks. They have made some efforts to explain these findings in the The Archaeology of Western Sahara: A Synthesis of Fieldwork (2018) but even they concluded (Clark & Brooks, 2018):

“The archaeological map of Western Sahara remains literally and figuratively almost blank as far as the international archaeological research community is concerned, particularly far from the Atlantic coast”

And they went deep into the matter, classifying several hundred different rectangular platforms (foundations), giant circles, crescents and lots of straight lines. Some of these are over half a km long. They speculate that these structures are remnants of tombs. That could be, but we would say these are remnants of ancient Biblical civilisations, not just tombs. There were a lot more going on than that.

Now if you venture further East and towards Chad, you will find the proof that these now vast and barren areas of the Sahara - once had lots of water and a thriving civilisation or even held several civilisations over time. Because the truth is, you quickly run out of space trying to fit all of the ancient Empires inside a small area in The Middle East and small parts of North Africa. Its kinda dim to think things have always looked the same, with the climate according to people is the thing being a constant (it definitely fluctuates), when obviously SoNiNi can dry up an area if He so sees fit. We will look further into that one in the next article, to see and show what SoNiNi naNiNi is capable of doing to an area, if He decides to withdraw his presence. And nowhere is there more evidence of a gigantic area of water being dried all up then the Ennedi Massif. A graveyard of culture buried in sand.

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