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CiviLIZation INTRO - Places to Go - Africa - MidEast - Europe - Asia - Americas --- Lost Cities - India - Asia - Atlantis - EXIT |
Places to Go - Africa
In this topic you will find...
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Egyptian Pyramids North Africa
These don't need any introduction - but.....travel can be overwhelming. It helps to have sometimes a well known place that can serve as an anchor for other visits in a region.
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Slideshow of pyramids near Cairo, Egypt (W) |
BBC Building the Great Pyramids
Mystery of the Sphinx (Offline?)
narrated by Charlton Heston
PBS: Lost City of Pyramids (Google Video) - no embedding ----- Lost City (Aera Web) - good information
Nova - Secrets of Lost Empires II - Pharaoh's Obelisk - on Hulu
500 tons
Also on Youtube - no country limitation
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PBS - Empires - Egypt's Golden Empire (Youtube Playlist) - also copy to All Empires Fall
Playlist also has Engineering an Empire - Egypt and Nefertiti Resurrected.
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Nabta Playa
Nabta_Playa (Wikipedia) - About.com - Nabta_playa http://exn.ca/egypt/sto - Gnostic Secrets - Nabta Playa Science in Africa - megalith.ru/en/ MNSU - Nabta Playa - no/ MNSU - south_america/nabta_playa - no /egypt/egypt_story3/also2/ - no (Discovery Channel - Canada) This ties in with Stonehenge and a new site in Brazil. |
Status: Difficult to visit unless |
http://www.magicalegypt.com/default.asp
Nabta Playa stone formation explained
nabta playa megalithic stone complex (part1)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x_NE1GNbfQ - version without "MovDow.com" watermak.
nabta playa megalithic stone complex (part2)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfvcU0hN92U&feature=related - 2nd part. Slightly shorter than above
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Faces of Sudan in Full HD(1080p)
Meroe Image Gallery
Cosmos Studios - Cosmos Africa
/ http://www.filmhorizon.com/cosmicafrica.asp / Thebe_Medupe (Wikipedia)
NY Times Review / inion/mg18524822.000 (New Scientist) / ce/scitech/cosmicafrica.htm (South Africa Info)
Insert video YOutube Cosmi Africa lecture from 2006 - part 1 of 6 (Others online)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs#History_and_evolution - How Are Egyptian Hieroglyphs And Sumerian Cuneiform Alike?http://www.blurtit.com/q159551.html
http://www.emayzine.com/lectures/egyptciv.html
Archaeological sources indicate the emergence, by the late Gerzean period (about 3200 BC), of a dominant political force that was to become the consolidating element in the first united kingdom of ancient Egypt. The earliest known hieroglyphic writing dates from this period; soon the names of early rulers began to appear on monuments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_literature - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_in_Ancient_Egypt
