See Why the Flooding of Nubia is Black History’s Greatest Tragedy

In 1964, the Aswan Dam flooded the most important Black civilization in history:

See Why the Flooding of Nubia is Black History’s Greatest Tragedy

It Erased the Birthplace of Civilization

• We lost Ta-Seti, a place with writing from 3500 BCE, 500 years older than Egypt’s hieroglyphs

• Sites from 3800-3100 BCE showing early African metal-working and pottery are now underwater

• The Qustul graves, which had proof that African kings existed before Egyptian pharaohs, were destroyed

It Destroyed Amazing Medieval African Kingdoms

• Christian Nubian kingdoms that lasted from 543 to 1504 CE are now covered by water

• We lost thousands of old African books in languages like Old Nubian, Greek, and Coptic

• The Faras Cathedral, with over 120 beautiful wall paintings from 700-1400 CE, was flooded

It Forced Nubian People to Leave Their Homes

• 50,000 Egyptian Nubians and 53,000 Sudanese Nubians had to move in 1963-1964

• 45 Nubian villages in Egypt and 27 in Sudan, some over 3,000 years old, were destroyed

• The Nubian language is now endangered because communities were split up

It Made It Harder to Learn About Black History

• Over 1,000 important historical sites, from the Stone Age to Islamic times, are now underwater

• We lost proof that Nubians helped invent things like pyramids before the Egyptians

• 70 generations of Nubian history, from 6000 BCE to 1504 CE, are now harder to study…..Seê _ Morê