African civilizations

[Ta seti]

Sudan temple santuary Jebel Barkal

I know it is a form of writing but i like the art.





http://www.mfa.org/collections/objec...sennuwy-141967




Semna Temple

[Ta seti]

Swahili coast Gedi ruins Kenya












https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruins_of_Gedi

[crazyladybutterfly]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Nubian_language

Nubians were writing in the eight century before most Europeans. The earliest form of writing in Europe is the Greek alphabet in the late eight century BC which came from the Phoenicians.

Actually Greeks have an uninterrupted written tradition since 1800 BC and so do Cypriots who used Linear A a sister script of Linear A to write GREEK. Besides the oldest script in the world is found in Greece.

The Cadmeian script does not date to the 8th century but to 1450 BC. By 800 BC at least five different variants of Greek script existed the Ionian, Athenian, Corinthian, Argive, Euboean, Cypriot, Italian-Greek that originated from the same root centuries before 1000 BC.

The tribes of Africa had access to writing from the time of the Egyptians, Phoenician and Greek colonisation of Africa. In Islamic times when these people were enslaved they had access to Arabic written traditions and this access continued unbroken until Americans started dealing with the Arab slave traders.

[GiCa]

This history is ignored in Italian and European school

Like we ignore the history of Japan and East asia

It s all Euro-American centric

It s very said. We could and must know also others

[GiCa]

There are 300 ad churches in Ethiopia.. And nobody seem to put those in book for history

They commerced also with Romans

They also made Italian world War II prisoners building some of their churches in Addis abeba

[MMuniz]

good topic.

[Swahili_sultan]

Heres some info on Swahili history

https://swahili.hypotheses.org/swahili-history

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[Jacques de Imbelloni]

Benin masks

[Jacques de Imbelloni]

Igbo art

Igbo art (Igbo: Ǹkà Igbo) is any body of visual art originating from the Igbo people. The Igbo produce a wide variety of art including traditional figures, masks, artifacts and textiles, plus works in metals such as bronze. Artworks form the Igbo have been found from as early as 9th century with the bronze artifacts found at Igbo Ukwu.