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observe the ancient roads that link all these settlements proximity to the ruins. These mines have been described together. We have traced the remains of these roads that —_as sources of gold, copper, tin and iron. In my personal can still be seen stretching to a distance of about 500 experience and research, | have found at least five kilometres. In their original state, they would have ancient mine shafts in gold-rich areas and have been covered thousands of kilometres. The positions of the old of dozens more by farmers of the region. It seems ancient road sections that we have discovered suggest hat gold-mining has been going on here for a lot longer that this network once ran continuously from the coast han most of us ever imagined. of Mozambique to Botswana and possibly beyond. In 1891, a coin issued by Roman Emperor Antoninus A rough calculation shows that just the visible pieces Pius in AD 138 was found 25 metres deep in a gold mine of the original ancient roads would have required over — by Theodore Bent, who conducted the first excavation of 500 million stones, each weighing between 10 and 50 Great Zimbabwe. The Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II kilograms, to construct. If we assume that the roads 1279-1213 BC) wrote about crossing the African make up only two per cent of the ancient settlements, continent to its southern tip and of his encounters with the number of stones required to build the entire gold in this part of the world. It becomes evident that ancient city/settlement becomes unthinkable. This hese are probably the fabled mines of King Solomon. simply would not be possible with the current Should we be surprised by this discovery? The oldest population model of ancient civilisation in southern written records of human history, the Sumerian tablets, Africa. describe extensively the ancient The other issue we need to activity in a land called Abzu— deal with is the need for roads, the land below the equator since previously it was believed ' . where the gold was mined. The that the wheel only arrived in Adam's Calendar is tablets describe the early this part of the world with 11 human settlements and the Portuguese explorers in the positioned along the eels quest for gold. The fact that 1500s. 31-degree longitudinal line many scholars keep ignoring | these scripts is a great pity. The Oldest City on Earth as Great Zimbabwe and The links with the Sumerian It would not be unthinkable the Great Pyramid of Giza. civilisation in southern Africa that we are possibly looking at simply cannot be ignored or the oldest settlements on Earth. erased. They can even be traced Artefacts that have been etymologically in the names and recovered from these ruins origins of indigenous people. show a long and extended period of settlement that The most obvious piece of evidence that has never been spans well over 200,000 years. Over the past three — explained is the word Abantu, the name commonly used decades, several researchers have raised this issue, only __ to describe black South Africans. o be ridiculed and often ostracised. Many leading According to the pre-eminent shaman and medicine scientists and historians have since voiced their support man Credo Mutwa, the name is derived from the or such ancient origins. Sumerian goddess Antu. Abantu simply means "the Since southern Africa is the cradle of humankind, we children or people of Antu". should not be surprised to find such ruins but, rather, we should expect these discoveries. The reality seems to be | The Orion Connection and the Horus Hawk Statue hat we are dealing with what is possibly the largest and The monolithic Adam's Calendar is the flagship among east understood ancient civilisation on Earth. these southern African ruins because we can date it with It's important to note that the mysterious ruins of _ relative certainty to at least 75,000 years of age, based on southern Africa, which include Great Zimbabwe and a number of scientific evaluations. In turn, it points to housands of similar ruins in that country, also extend the diverse ancient history of southern Africa and into neighbouring areas such as Botswana, Namibia, _ presents the first tangible evidence of the earliest Zambia, Kenya and Mozambique. But why were these humans in the "cradle of humankind". ancient people here in the first place? What were they The remarkable calendar was originally a large circular doing? stone structure resembling but pre-dating Stonehenge Lee awee thavinanda Af eranen Tea A al abana in still positioned along the same 31-degree longitudinal line as Great Zimbabwe and The Orion Connection and the Horus Hawk Statue The monolithic Adam's Calendar is the flagship among ese southern African ruins because we can date it with relative certainty to at least 75,000 years of age, based on a number of scientific evaluations. In turn, it points to e diverse ancient history of southern Africa and presents the first tangible evidence of the earliest umans in the "cradle of humankind’. The remarkable calendar was originally a large circular stone structure resembling but pre-dating Stonehenge by many thousands of years. Its original shape is still clearly visible from satellite images. Adam's Calendar is positioned along the same 31-degree longitudinal line as Great Zimbabwe and the Great Pyramid of Giza. Three of the monoliths are aligned with Orion's belt when the constellation rose horizontally on the horizon at least 75,000 years ago. The latest astronomic calculation Ancient Gold Fields The past 200 years has seen a number of explorers write in great detail about these ruins, but their findings have been largely forgotten and their books are out of print. Most of these early explorers wrote about thousands of ancient mine shafts found in close 64 * NEXUS JUNE - JULY 2010 Adam's Calendar is the Great Pyramid of Giza. www.nexusmagazine.com