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
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