Lake Mega-Chad, Sahara, Africa, Herodotus, Igbo, Ikom Monoliths

Lake Mega-Chad and the Rise of Egypt and the Maa Civilization
You can not support a Northeast African origin for contemporary Negro-Egyptian speakers. A complete literature review of the history of the climatic conditions in the Sahara and Northeast Africa over the past 20ky indicates that the Negro-Egyptian speakers originated in the Sahara.

Lake Mega-Chad

You have not fully understood N. Drake’s work on the geography of Africa. As a result, you have failed to recognize that there were varying periods of “arid Sahara” and “Green Sahara”.

As outlined elsewhere there were two different African populations before the origination of Negro-Egyptian speakers: the Khoisan and the Pgymies. The Khoisan expanded out of Africa 40+kya, while the Pgymies probably began to exit Africa 22kya.

The Negro-Egyptian speakers probably originated in the Chad Basin near the MegaChad Lake. During the Holocene a giant lake, known as Lake Mega-Chad (LMC), extended over more than 350,000 km2 in southern Sahara.

8,000 Years old Dufuna Boat

NOTE: In fact, many Greek philosophers including the father of European history, whom we will literarily refer to as Herodotus, attested to the fact that ancient Africa Possesses an Inland Sea.

These assertions by Herodotus and others were quickly dismissed until modern scientific methods via satellite proved otherwise. It is generally accepted that a lake Megan-Chad once existed in ancient Ethiopia, and not Africa as we call her today.  Ancient Africa was divided into four parts; Ethiopia Proper, Ethiopia Inner, Ethiopia, Egyptos, and the Atlantic Ocean used to be called the Sea of Ethiopia. In the eyewitness account attributed to Herodotus, he simply mistook Lake Mega-Chad for an Inland Sea. An elementary but honest mistake on his part and others.

The Dufuna Boat, the second oldest boat in the world, 6000 BCE, was uncovered in 1994, in the Town of Dufuna North-Eastern Nigeria bordering modern-day Chad. During the time of Lake Mega-Chad, modern-day Chad would have been completely buried under Lake Mega-Chad. Since the

A Map Depicting Ancient Nigerian Civilisations in Which Nok was  referred to as MA-GAN

The Dufuna canoe was discovered by a local Fulani herdsman in 1987, and the canoe was excavated by a combined team of Nigerian and German archaeologists in 1994 at Dufuna. It has changed the course of history for those who knew about it. Dufuna is a village along the Komodugu Gana river in Fune local government area of Yobe State, Nigeria.

The boat was dug out from a depth of five meters beneath the earth's surface and measured 8.4 meters in length, 0.5 meters wide and about 5 cm thick varying at certain parts of the surface. The age of the boat has been put at about 8000 - 8500 years old (6000 - 6500 B.C.E.), thus, becoming the oldest boat in Africa and second oldest on earth. It predates the Egyptian Solar Boat by over 2000 years.

13,000 years old Iwo-eleru Skulls, incorporating pre-historic and ancients skulls

The canoe belongs to the Late Stone Age period (Neolithic Age), when humans ceased to roam the face of the earth hunting to become herdsmen and cultivators and in the process becoming modifiers of their environment, with complex social structures, in response to new problems and ways of dealing with situations. But more importantly, "the canoe has shown that people in the Niger area had a history of advanced technology and that they had mastered the three major items of Neolithic culture which included the fashioning, standardization, and utilization of tools according to set traditions.

"It gives concrete evidence of transportation by seas as well as providing evidence of some form of long-distance commercial activities indicative of existing political and economic structures."

Nok or MA-GAN Statues

Lake Chad is the remnant of a former inland sea, palaeolake Mega-Chad. At its largest, sometime before 5,000 BC, Lake Mega-Chad was the largest of four Saharan palaeolakes and is estimated to have covered an area of 400,000 km2 (150,000 sq mi), larger than the Caspian Sea is today. It was near these sites that the Aqualithic and Ounanian cultures existed.

The Chad Basin covers an area of approximately 2,434,000 square kilometres, equivalent to 8% of the total area of the African continent. The Chad Basin is surrounded by high mountain ranges which rise up to the highland of the North Equatorial Plateau.

The Negro-Egyptian speakers lived in the plains and mountains around the Lake. During the LGM there were many settlements in the Chad Basin and Highland regions of the Sahara. On the plains, they founded the Maa civilization. The Maa civilization may have originated in the Bodélé Depression. The Bodélé is the deepest part of the basin. It was around 155 meters above sea level. Between 4,410 and 5,280 BP, the Lake Mega-Chad started to contract.

The oldest archaeological sites found after the desiccation of Lake Megachad date to about 4,000 BP. This corresponds to the migration of Maa people into Upper Egypt, as illustrated by the rise of Amma/Ammon/Ammun worshipers in Egypt.

Plate     6AA

While Saharan Africa was well-watered during the rise of the Aqualithic and Ounanian cultures was well watered Northeast Africa was not. Ethiopian Plateau was arid between 17,000-10,000 years ago. This is why we see the rise of the Aqualithic and Ounanian cultures---the homelands of the Negro-Egyptian speakers in the Sahara--- not Northeast Africa.

The Toumai man of Chad and the Ugwuele man of Nigeria - both border nations - make a final case for a West, rather an East African origin of Mankind. A Nigerian location of Eden implies a Nigerian location of Sumer and vice versa.

Plate       6BB

As if these are not shocking enough, we find that a sizable number of ancient inscribed Stone monoliths discovered in 1970 in the virgin forests, villages and under the ground in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria (in Cross River and Akwa Ibom States) bear the faces of apes (plate 6aa above)!

Plate 6aa (above): Ikom monoliths, Cross River State, Nigeria. Were these ape-men in the self-portraits, the authors of the monoliths that bear their images? Plate 6bb (right):

Igbo Ukwu – Serpent bearing an EGG or a SEED in its mouth aligns with the claim by the Kings of Sumer that their Land is “Edin Land”, for it can only be an allusion to the Serpent of the Garden of Eden who gave Eve the SEED she ate to bring about the birth of humans (Homo Sapiens).

This seal in Igbo Ukwu simply implies that the Agade civilization was an offshoot of Adamites of Eden, with the cooperation of the Adite Ape-men of plate 6aa.

The Egyptian Book of the Dead claims that Ape-men called Khemennu were the Primeval Ancestors of Humanity as well as the Scribes of the Duat in Heliopolis and that their symbolic number was eight.  The eight-pointed star is the symbol of their Khemennu city or Khammasi city (in Sumerian). Nigerian monoliths actually bear the eight-pointed star of the Khammasi/Khemennu gods of Sumer and Egypt.

The Khemennu scribes of Ikom – who needless to say - are the same Khemmenu Primeval Ancestors of Sumer and Egypt actually share this symbol with Nze na Ozo god-men and Initiates of Igbo land (see plate 8, beneath)! Plate 7 (below): The Khemennu eight-pointed star symbol on the Ikom monoliths confirms them as Khemennu scribes of the Duat.  Plate 8 (beneath):

Plate        7

The eight-pointed Star symbol of the Sumerian Khamazi (Egyptian Khamesh)city of Priests, City of the god Thoth and his ape-men scribes!

What this suggests is that the Ape men authors of the monoliths were intelligent beings. Perhaps humanity may need to search into the actual family of apes for its real ancestors!

This opinion, though seemingly outlandish, is borne out of the fact that several cases of recorded oral traditions of internal migrations of various Nigerian peoples into the Lower Niger Delta claim that migrants encountered intelligent ape-men aboriginal residents with tails, who traded with, or resisted the advance of the migrants.

As unscientific as this may sound, the tails indicate that Homo Erectus was more ape than man! Yet he was intelligent enough to write on a rock, as recorded in the Nigerian monoliths and in the famous Hindu Ramayan epic, where the ape Hanuman is depicted as an intelligent ape-man who could write verses on stone – a Sumerian/Nigerian story never-the-less!

Hanuman was probably the Egyptian god Thoth, the leader of the Primeval Ancestors of The Book of the Dead - the Khemennu ape-men of Sumer in Eden.

Plate          8

We Call on the British Museum Authorities.

For over three years, we have been studying the pottery and bronze inscriptions on the hundreds of artefacts and potsherds excavated by Thurstan Shaw at Igbo Ukwu.

Has demonstrated that they are mostly letters found in orthographies of almost every ancient Middle Eastern civilization.

The direction of borrowing is more than obvious. The result of this study is carefully catalogued in our latest publication in the series.

The Lost Testament of the Ancestors of Adam – Unearthing Heliopolis – The Celestial City of the Gods of Egypt and India (2010).

Plates 5aa, below Ancient Igbo Step-pyramids (Sumerians called them Ziggurats) in Nsude, Udi, Enugu State, Igbo, Nigeria.

They were photographed by British anthropologist G. I. Jones before they were razed into a sand heap by British colonists and missionaries (!930s). Published Online in G.I. Jones Photo-Archives and in Catherine Acholonu, The Lost Testament of the Ancestors of Adam (2010).

Plate      5AA

The Igbo tradition of building step-pyramids of graves of kings and heroes of renown died with the coming of Christianity. rats) in Nsude, Udi, Enugu State, Igbo, Nigeria. 

They were photographed by British anthropologist G. I. Jones before they were razed into a sand heap by British colonists and missionaries (!930s). Published Online in G.I. Jones Photo-Archives and in Catherine Acholonu, The Lost Testament of the Ancestors of Adam (2010).

The Igbo tradition of building step-pyramids of graves of kings and heroes of renown died with the coming of Christianity and Colonists. And they left tears, sorrow and blood, their regular trademark, including demolishing the only evidence of step pyramids South of the Sahara desert.

The cache of goods excavated in Igbo Ukwu would fill two museums. A few of the artefacts are located in Nigerian museums, but the bulk of them are hidden away in the British Museum and Nigerians are not allowed to access them.

NOTE: All bronze and copper artefacts listed here are courtesy of Thurstan Shaw as published in various texts by himself and by the National Commission for Museums and Monuments, as well as in Catherine Acholonu et. al. They Lived Before Adam, Abuja, 2009; The Lost Testament of the Ancestors of Adam, Abuja (2010). Catherine Acholonu.

End of part 9 of 10. Next blog 18/03/19. Were the remains of the body buried under one of the Nsude pyramids, which have been sitting in the British Museum for over 85 years gathering dust, that of Sargon the Great?