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suggests that the last time Orion would have been flat on the horizon was around 160,000 years ago. A recent observation is that the fallen monolith on the outer circle that marks the vernal equinox sunrise is shaped like the Horus hawk head from Egypt and also resembles the bird statues found amongst the ruins in Zimbabwe. This is the oldest statue of the Horus hawk by a long shot, and should attract great interest in the years to come. suggests that the last time Orion would have been flat years. In the Bible, it was changed to Ofir or Ophir. on the horizon was around 160,000 years ago. There seems to be a clear link between all these places, A recent observation is that the fallen monolith onthe —_ and this link leads to southern Africa—where the gold outer circle that marks the vernal equinox sunrise is came from. shaped like the Horus hawk head from Egypt and also This is, after all, the place where most of the world's resembles the bird statues found amongst the ruins in gold has been mined in modern history, and it was no Zimbabwe. This is the oldest statue of the Horus hawk different in ancient times. Is it a coincidence that the by a long shot, and should attract great interest in the richest gold mine in the world today is the Sheba Gold years to come. Mine, located right here in Mpumalanga, South Africa? These may seem like naive questions to some, but after Rewriting Human History personally exploring the remnants of enormous ancient Southern Africa holds some of the deepest mysteries cities and civilisations in southern Africa | am convinced in all of human history. Although much has been written — that what we think we know about our ancient human about the first humans who appeared history is further from the truth than in this part of the world, we have we ever imagined. found very little evidence of their Adam's Calendar firmly places the activities and what kind of lives they . many ancient ruins of southern Africa led from around 250,000 to 75,000 WE are possibly at a point in history some 100,000 years ago. What we are told is that looking at the years ago that we modern humans have never faced before. It takes us further back in time, closer to the around 60,000 years ago the people from Africa began to migrate north oldest settlements and eventually populated the whole on Earth. emergence of Homo sapiens, than any planet. Who were these first humans? other structure ever found to date, and What did they do? How did they live? Artefacts that it will force historians and And where did they disappear to? have been archaeologists to reconsider ancient The first signs of human intelligence human activity and consciousness. and consciousness only appeared recovered from 00 around 75,000 years ago, when these ruins show a About the Author: Michael Tellinger has had a 30-year the Khoisan people of southern Africa started leaving behind an long and extended paintings all over this part of the period of humankind. He graduated from continent. Finely crafted beads settlement that the University of Witwatersrand, and bracelet fragments found at Johannesburg, in 1983 with a Blombos Cave in South Africa's spans well over Bachelor of Pharmacy degree and a Western Cape show that these early humans had already developed a feel for the arts and crafts. passion for the cosmos, genetics, human history and music. Before he began his research/writing career, he was an acclaimed The legends become even more musical performer and songwriter vivid when we learn about the in South Africa and then a sound great empire of Monomotapa, which arguably was at its designer and editor based in Los Angeles, USA. He has eight around AD 1000 and whose kings were powerful —_ also worked as an actor, a screenplay writer and a radio/TV and wealthy in gold. producer/ presenter specialising in science and technology. When we move back to around 1000 BC, we encounter Tellinger set up his own publishing company, Zulu Planet he mysterious Queen of Sheba, who ruled a kingdom in Publishers, and is the author of Slave Species of god (2005), he lost land of Ophir that was teeming with endless — Adam's Calendar (with Johan Heine, 2008) and Temples of supplies of gold, and the wise and wealthy King __ the African Gods (also with Johan Heine, 2009; see review Solomon, who seduced her and obtained all his gold __ in this edition). He is a member/director of the MaKomati rom her. Is it possible that there actually was such a Foundation, a non-profit organisation established in 2003 place? Was it really filled with limitless wealth in gold? to research, protect, maintain and promote the ancient Was it here that the wealthiest kings on Earth mined ruins of Mpumalanga in South Africa. 200,000 years. heir gold? Michael Tellinger can be contacted by email at Ophir is an etymological derivative of the ancient place — publisher@zuluplanet.com. For more information, visit the called Afer, "where the gold came from"; then it became websites http://www.adamscalendar.com, he Arabic Afir, for Africa, from which was derived K’Afir, http://www.slavespecies.com, http://www.makomati.org which became the slang word for black people in later — and http:/Awww.zuluplanet.com. looking at the oldest settlements on Earth. have been : period of settlement that spans well over 200,000 years. JUNE - JULY 2010 NEXUS ¢ 65 ...We are possibly Artefacts that recovered from these ruins show a long and extended www.nexusmagazine.com