DISTANT RELATIVES

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."

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Jimi Hendrix

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Abu Simbel

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Fun History Fact,

Originally the Great Pyramids were bright white with a shiny gold top.  This was because they originally were built with an outer layer of highly polished limestone and a gold capstone on the Great Pyramid itself.  Over time, the gold capstone was stolen and the limestone was pilfered by stone masons for building materials.

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Muhammad Ali & Michael Jackson

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Temple of Edfu by Ian Southwell  on Flickr

The temple at Edfu has astonishingly preserved wall and ceiling paintings which are nearly 2,500 years old.

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WATCH: Michael Jackson On The  Origins of the Moonwalk, The Beauty of Africa and Ancient Egypt

"The rhythms of Africa which is the root of rythm, thats my favourite music and I think thats the favourite music of the world because all music is derived from that ..I mean africa is music, it is the origin, it is the dawn of existence.. you cant avoid that."

"The world is jealous of Africa for many centuries because the natural  resources are phenomenal.. it really is and it is the dawn of civilization..  and a lot of our bible history is right there in Africa and King Tut.. all great civilizations… that is right there in Africa..  Egypt is in Africa.. they always try to seperate the two but Egypt is Africa." Michael Jackson

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Moorish Cavalry of the Roman Army

Here one finds reliefs of the Moorish Cavalry of the Roman Army under Lusius Quietus, fighting against the Dacians. It was commissioned by Emperor Trajan. Lusius Quietus was a Roman general and governor of Ludaea(Judea) in 117 AD.

Pics. from the Column of Trajan, Rome,Italy

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Head of a Man(2nd Century BCE), Brooklyn Museum

Medium: Marble, “Bigio Morata”

Geographical Locations:

Possible place made: Turkey

Place made: Provenance not known

Dates: late 2nd century B.C.E.

Period: Ptolemaic Period

Dimensions: 11 x 7 11/16 x 7 1/2 in. (28 x 19.5 x 19 cm)  

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Nina Simone 

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A depiction of Moors playing the board game commonly known as chess and one playing a harp in Alfonso X’s Libro de los Juegos (“Book of Games”, 1283 AD)

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Queen Nefertari playing Senet, 19th Dynasty

Senet is one of the oldest known board games. It has been found in Predynastic and First Dynasty burials of ancient Egypt, between 3500 BC and 3100 BC.. It was one of the most popular games of Egypt

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Ancient Egyptian soldiers of the 11th Dynasty

Middle Kingdom, 11th Dynasty

Tomb of Mesehti, Cairo Museum

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An infographic mapping the largest African nations by population. Data from 2012.

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Old map of Africa. Created by Frederick Herman Moll, published in London, 1710

One of the most decorative Maps of Africa after 1700.

Click on the picture to see it in large and read the text.

This is a map of Africa in 1710 before and whilst Europe was in the process of dismembering African states and reshaping them into the  majority of Artificial states we now know as African Countries.

Notice:

Africans defined their land by their own standards, governed and dictated by themselves.

Europeans did not know that much about Africa (Shame on them).