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Nok culture video from youtube.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVT--v-fAKw

http://www.globalphotographic.net/Pacific.htm

Melanesia

more solomon island black people.

Even though these people does not have white skin, but many of the inhabitants especially children have blond hair. My point blondism is common to some black groups without mixing. Lets meet the people from the solomon islands in a area called Melanesia, which means basically black island people.

Who is this man? and Where was he from in Africa?

question 11:Where in Africa is this ruin temple located? When was it builted and who constructed the complex? and What is the name of the temple?

question 10: What present day country does the ashanti people live?

that is question 9:

What country is this monument located, and also What is the name of the monument?

question 8: Where in Africa is this monument located?

From the picture, where is this monument located in Africa?

Makajibbz, i am going to wait to other people reply.

Makajibbz :According to secular historians Amharic is not the oldest form of writing in sub saharan africa

From the picture, What form of writing is this called?

What is the name of this writing script? and what part of africa was it created?

typo question 2: Which country in Africa have the most pyramids?

I am sorry Makajibluz but all your answers are wrong, but nice try though.

question 6.Where was ancient Ghana located?

question 5:What was the largest pre colonial kingdom(land area wise) in west african? and What countries today were part of this kingdom?

Question 4.Who was queen Amina? and where was she from?

question 3: What is the oldest form of writing in sub saharan Africa? However this subject is very debatable.

question 2: Which country in African have the post pyramids?

[b]Tpia said:[/b]this is quite likely, with some features becoming more dominant than others


Exactly, I have a strange feeling that the first set of humans(Adam, Eve, and the people that died during the flood of Noah) looked similar to these people and their variations. Some are dark while others are light, some with curly hair, some with almost straight hair while others have coarse hair texture. What is funny these people language is classified as semitic as well similar to hebrew and arabic, but written from left to right instead of right to left.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICoQEj7f-vs&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZoROOwTYus&feature=related


However, to let people understand, this is my opinion.

You are welcome Tpia. I think so called races don't really exist. Again we are basically variations of the originally two people. It is obvious that Adam and Eve were dark enough and light enough to produce the various people we have today on planet earth. What we called races today is only a degree of isolation, groups married within their language groups and produce the various facial characteristic and skin color we see today on planet earth, Most likely facial features and skin color occured when individual married within their group. Accordingi to many scholars most likely Adam and Eve were darkskinn people or what we call mulattoes today, it is well know fact when mulattoes marry each other they can produce children that look like a yoruba, spaniard, Indian, and even asiatic within the same family, and i think Adam and Eve was like this, Again, it had to be someone in the middle of the racial group today to produce the variation we see today, in a relatively short time, and you see this with mulattoes or mix people when they marry each other.

Tpia, Again i found this from a Hebrew website as well

Name of the Day
אדם (ADM - Adam)
We are all familiar with the name "Adam" as found in the book of Genesis, but what does it really mean? Let us begin by looking at its roots. This word/name is a child root derived from the parent דם meaning, "blood". By placing the letter א in front of the parent root, the child root אדם is formed and is related in meaning to דם (blood).

By examing a few other words derived from the child root אדם we can see a common meaning in them all. The Hebrew word אדםה (adamah) is the feminine form of אדם meaning "ground" (see Genesis 2:7). The word/name אדום (Edom) means "red". Each of these words have the common meaning of "red". Dam is the "red" blood, adamah is the "red" ground, edom is the color "red" and adam is the "red" man. There is one other connection between "adam" and "adamah" as seen in Genesis 2:7 which states that "the adam" was formed out of the "adamah".[i][/i]

In the ancient Hebrew world, a persons name was not simply an identifier but descriptive of one's character. As Adam was formed out of the ground, his name identifies his origins.

It had to be someone of the middle of our extreme, not so called white, or so called black, or asian, but some in the middle of the extremes, and we are just variation of the original two humans. There is no reason for racism worldwide since we are all related. However i know many people is going to disagree with my conclusions. There is really no such things as races, since we all come from the original human pair.

I think this wome look similar(not exactly) but similar what Eve must of looked like. It goes with the biblical description what Adam was like. Actually, this lady is Ethiopian.

Tpia here are a few website i found that might be helpful. The first one is from the Josepheus who was a ancient jewish writer that live thirty years after Christ, he document the history of the jews, and the war between the Jews and the Romans. Many Jews during that era probably regarded him as a traiter for compromising himself to the Romans. However, he felted compelled to write the history of the Jews, however in his writing he wrote about Adam and the constitution what Adam was made from. He also written about the Cushites, and the fall of mankind. Also will give you some other web sites as well. Hopefully, this answer some of your question. cheer Tpia.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Tij7Wfj1bFMC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=josephus+said+adam+was+red&source=bl&ots=RAYdc2uDel&sig=m95pmEGheSZdKZ_5rzsLtPeQQ2c&hl=en&ei=_CIVTPWeEIH_nAfuofWJDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=josephus%20said%20adam%20was%20red&f=false

He briefly mentioned the Cushites.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Tij7Wfj1bFMC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=josephus+said+adam+was+red&source=bl&ots=RAYdc2uDel&sig=m95pmEGheSZdKZ_5rzsLtPeQQ2c&hl=en&ei=_CIVTPWeEIH_nAfuofWJDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Chus&f=false

Here is other material

http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/race-definition.html
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/race-skincolor.html

To tpia:
As i mentioned it is a play of words in the hebrew language.

Adam=means human/mankind, but it come form the root word for red. Dam=means blood. Edom=means in hebrew the color red. Adamah means red clay where the first man Adam was made from. In other words Adam was the red/ or brown man. In other words, Adam and most likely Eve were people of color, some speculated that they are what we call mix race people today, which makes more genetic sense. Do you remember the post of the twins one black the other white from two what we call birracial today. Here are the photos of them, this will give you a picture of what adam and eve were like.

to sister: Tpia
the equator theory still doesnt explain black skin. And most black africans migrated to their current locations- nothing explaining that in the books.

polar bears actually have black skin underneath the hair. Any theories about that? why doesnt the artic fox also have the same.


Hi, tpia i might be able to give you and explanation, however is a little religious. As you know i am Sudanese, but i never told you my religion which is copt, however there are very few copts in Northern sudan today. However, the i am also been thinking about this questions as well, but the other way around, how come God created white people. lol. Needless to say, the answer is from Adam name himself. Some white christians mainly believe that adam name means ruddy or to show blushing, from their racist ideology only whites can blush, but we all know that all people blush regardless of skin complexion. However, in the hebrew language adam name has two meaning, it does come from the root word red, and also means mankind or humankind generally. however, i will break it down to you in hebrew, because it is a play in words.

Bastage, I have read the article, but in some parts of the editorial it is bordering into racial stereotyping which i don't accept.

Wow, I did not know, I will get a response on this trend. Needless to say, the so called ark finders responds to us critics.

Monday, 03 May 2010, 09:06 EDT
Chinese explorers stand by claim of Noah's Ark find in Turkey


Newspaper Anouncement. FILE PHOTO
The Christian Science Monitor[/b][b]

"The only record of a wooden structure on Mount Ararat is Noah's Ark," Clara Wei said.

Two members of the search team that claims to have found Noahâ??s Ark on Mount Ararat in Turkey responded to skepticism by saying that there is no plausible explanation for what they found other than it is the fabled biblical boat that floated on a flooded earth for 40 days and 40 nights.

Noah's Ark Ministries International (NAMI) held a press conference April 25 in Hong Kong to present their findings and say they were "99.9 percent sure" that a wooden structure found at a 12,000-ft. elevation and dated as 4,800 years old was Noah's Ark.

A flood massive enough to float a boat to the top of Mount Ararat bucks against geologic studies that show no evidence of a worldwide flood that would also have wiped out all plants, animals, and most traces of human civilization. Even prominent fundamentalist Christians who do believe in a worldwide flood have cast doubt on the latest purported discovery.

But members of the Chinese-Turkish team stood by their finding.

"How can a ship be on a mountain?" Yeung Wing-cheung, one of six team members who entered the structure on Mount Ararat last October, told the Monitor today by telephone from Hong Kong.

"The only record of a wooden structure on Mount Ararat is Noah's Ark," Clara Wei, the team coordinator, also said today by telephone from Beijing. "So up to now I believe this is the most probable explanation. We don't have another explanation."

It's not a hoaxWhile both say more research is necessary, they rebutted critics who say that the finding was a hoax. NAMI is a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Media Evangelism Limited, founded in 1989 to publish multimedia geared toward evangelizing.

"We don't have anything to hide," says Mrs. Wei. She says that massive wooden planks, some 20 meters long, were found in wooden rooms and hallways buried in the ice atop Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey. People could not carry such heavy wood to such a height, nor can vehicles access such a remote location on the mountain. A video of the exploration shows team members wearing crampons and trekking through snow to reach the site.

"You can hire horses to carry bags, but they cannot balance themselves with 20-meter-long timber," says Wei, adding that there was no cultural evidence - such as pottery - that the structure was a former house or church.

Turkish officials from Agri Province, the location of Mount Ararat, also attended this week's press conference in Hong Kong. Lieutenant governor Murat Güven and Cultural Ministries Director Muhsin Bulut, both provincial officials, believe the discovery is likely Noah's Ark, according to the announcement posted on the team's website.

"The local government thinks this is Noah's Ark," Mr. Yeung says.

Five-year searchOver the decades, many explorers have hunted for Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat, and a number claimed to find the boat.

Russian World War I aviator Vladimir Roskovitsky claimed to see a large ship resting high on Mount Ararat in 1917. The astronaut James Irwin led a number of disappointing expeditions to Mt. Ararat between 1982 and 1986. French industrialist Fernand Navarra ascended Ararat in 1955, recovering a piece of oak initially dated 5,000 years old; more accurate carbon dating later showed it in the range of A.D. 620 to A.D. 90.

However, NAMI claims that their expedition was the first to invest several years of effort with the locals. Starting in 2004, NAMI spent several months every year at the mountain conducting searches while also maintaining contact with local fixers. What began as a documentary about the legend of Noah's Ark turned into their own obsession with finding the mythic vessel when a local guide by the name of Parasut told them in mid-2008 that he knew the boat's location. One team member, Panda Lee, visited the location that October.

Wei says bad weather prevented NAMI from reaching the site again until October 2009, this time with a three-person film crew. They took video and rock and wood samples, which they then sent to a university in Tehran, Iran - she declined to reveal which one - for radiocarbon dating. This showed the wood to be 4,800 years old, Wei says. The team then spent several months speaking with Turkish officials and researchers before holding this week's press conference in Hong Kong, which set off a firestorm of media reports on major outlets such as Fox News and Good Morning America.

Team member who quitInitially, prominent ark-hunter Randall Price, an evangelical Christian and professor at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., was also a member of the team. He quit, however, over doubts about Parasut's honesty, and has since concluded that the site is an elaborate "hoax." Mr. Price has questioned why Parasut and NAMI refuse to reveal the location of the finding.

Yeung and Wei say that this could open the site to pillaging.

While ark-hunting has become an industry of sorts in southeastern Turkey, with a number of locals on hand to show visitors where to find the ark, Wei insists their guide is trustworthy and only wants to bring attention to his discovery on the mountain.

"He thinks we have the power to bring this to the world. He knows we can do that for him," she says.

Wei and Yeung both declined the reveal the amount of money NAMI spent searching for the ark. Yeung said it came from private donors in Hong Kong and Australia.

Open to interpretationCreationists, like many of those searching for the ark, have long sought evidence of Noah's Ark to reaffirm their belief that God created the world in seven days and judges the wicked, as when the world was destroyed in a flood that spared only Noah and his family.

"If Noah built a real solid boat just like you or I could build a solid boat, and traveled over a stormy sea just like you or I could travel over a stormy sea, and landed on solid ground just like you or I could land on solid ground, if all that could be affirmed, it would also affirm the moral theories that they're interested in," says Christopher Toumey, an anthropology professor at the University of South Carolina.

The story of an ancient flood is more ancient than Genesis, says Professor Toumey. A passage from the Sumerian epic Gilgamesh, among the world's oldest known literature, tells of a man named Ziusudra surviving a great flood. The Babylonian version of that story says Utnapishtum survives the flood. The plot was reworked and the name again changed, this time to Noah, in the version in the book of Genesis.

As such, Toumey says the discovery of Noah's Ark may not necessarily prove useful to evangelical Christians.

"Obviously they want it to affirm the story of Noah. It could just as easily affirm the story of Ziusudra or Utnapishtum," Toumey told the Monitor.

Investigation continuesTurkey's culture minister this week ordered a probe into how NAMI brought pieces of the wood sampled from Turkey to China.

"How did these objects get there [to Hong Kong] and under whose authority were the officials present there? We are investigating this," Culture and Tourism Minister Ertuğrul Günay said, according to local newspaper Today's Zaman. At the same time he welcomed the finding and said it could boost tourism.

The next step in the discovery, says Wei, is to coordinate with scientists, researchers, and the Turkish government to conduct further studies on the site.

Mrs. Wei says she is 99.9 percent sure they have found Noah's Ark.

"We need scientists to give us another 0.1 percent."