Ancient human metropolis found in Africa

Call me a geek, but stuff like this is cool!!! There is so little we actually do know about our history comparatively, It will be nice to hear what this is all about after a full excavation and anthropological study :)

Facinating read, thanks Vierotchka.

Amazing! Viero awesome post!

from the article-The area is significant for one striking thing -- gold. "The thousands of ancient gold mines discovered over the past 500 years, points to a vanished civilization that lived and dug for gold in this part of the world for thousands of years," says Tellinger. "And if this is in fact the cradle of humankind, we may be looking at the activities of the oldest civilization on Earth."

I thought that was interesting since i read a book by Zecharia Sitchin saying that beings from another world came to earth and found humans on the planet in africa...they enslaved them for the use of mining gold and other precious natural minerals.I didn't really believe it because we would have found massive gold mines..but now..i have more ideas to play with.Thanks for sharing this:-)

loved this stuff

Another turd in the creationists' punchbowl.

It was very cool until it started talking about alien gods and hybrid humans on the last page..

How gullable can you get? Read the article and you'll see. It might be fairly old but probably a litle over a 1000 in reality. The cretins are dating it with some silly stone callender for goodness sake, that's illarious- you can set that to any subjective time you want just by picking and choosing your astrological references. This is beyond inane... lets get back to reality.

Very interesting indeed, however the basis for much of the alien god/sumeria connection is based on work by Sitchen whose translations are now regarded as flawed to say the least. If found to be as desribed though, this would seem to support his thories.

Remember folks as of now it is still in hypothesis as to the intracacies, and still it is not an exact science.... we are still learning more about many other ancient civilizations we thought we already knew about......

But, but...this can't be true! The earth is only 6,000 years old!

Interesting article. If true this is a huge discovery. I'm surprised that I've never heard of seen of this before. Is the article above the only source for this information or are others available?

Interesting. I'm reading a book by Michael Cremo at the moment that suggests that human civilisation has been around on earth FAR longer than current academic literature will recognise.

I'm sure I can't believe anything this guy has to say, but it is certainly something worth looking into. Why not? who says we know anything about our own history anyway? We always stumble upon things about our past we never knew before, why not stumble upon the beginning?

As I read through this webpage, it seems that it's trying to make a real world example of the allegory of the bible's Genesis.

They talk about "Mitochondrial Eve" and "Mitochondrial Adam" and that the First Homosapiens were slaves who left in exodus... uhm.... what?

This is interesting but kind of crazy. I hope this physical material and sites are examined with a more methodical and varifiable approach in the future.
Still awsome

asherp, Mitochondrial Eve (mt-mrca) is the name given by researchers to the woman who is defined as the matrilineal most recent common ancestor (MRCA) for all currently living humans. Passed down from mother to offspring, all mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in every living person is derived from hers. Mitochondrial Eve is the female counterpart of Y-chromosomal Adam, the patrilineal most recent common ancestor, although they lived at different times. It has absolutely no connection whatsoever with Genesis or any other religious book.

Great post V, thanks for sharing.

i'd like to see an article like this, but without the crazy.

Cool stuff

Christians need to start to re-think how the good book is translated if this is true

for all who will say this disproves creationism, please note not all Christians or Creationist believe in a 6000 year earth or a literal 6 day creation. Religions evolve and interact with knowledge in general, that which cannot be explained is put to God, correctly or incorrectly. FOR ME the perfection of this complex system point to a Creator, the age of the earth holds no bearing on this thought.

This is a really big deal. This is a whole 'nother wing of ancient history that we know nothing, and probably never will know anything about. Pre-Sumerian civilization could change history as we know it. This is a very interesting find.

On another note--TAKE THAT, YOUNG-EARTHERS!

I just remembered the Family Guy of what Ireland was before discovering alcohol hahahahah, maybe Africa was like that before discovering guns?

This isn't really credible. The author is a 12/21/12 doomsdayer.
http://www.endworld-2012.com/2009/03/page/2/

This is nothing more than pseudo-science, along with bigfoot and the loch-ness monster.

"The next calculation was presented by a master archaeoastronomer who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of ridicule by the academic fraternity."

Real scientists backed by real scientific data aren't afraid of their colleagues' verification of their findings. It's part of the scientific process. The only people with anything to fear would be liars.

I love this kind of stuff. But I'm still skeptical about the dating they're claiming. That said.... Stonehenge is still not 100% understood and for all the time I can remember articles like this one were full of conjecture about what it was for. I say send an army of archaeologists in and let's get some data out of it! Also... now I am compelled to read Sumerian legend!