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A. J. Clement researched the story in 1964 and advanced a new theory. Clement claimed his study of Farini's description of his route highlighted inconsistencies in Farini's story. Clement concluded that Farini went deep into Southern Africa, but he never actually went to the heart of the Kalahari where he claimed the Lost City was sited.
In 2014, ancient DNA analysis of a 2,330-year-old male forager's skeleton in southern Africa found that the specimen belonged to the L0d2c1c mtDNA haplogroup. This maternal clade is today most closely associated with the Ju, a subgroup of the indigenous San people , which points to population continuity in the region. [ 68 ]
The ruins of the city of Aksum, dating from the 1st to the 13th century, marks the heart of ancient Ethiopian civilisation. It includes monolithic obelisks, giant stelae, royal tombs, and ruins of former castles. [32] Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad: Maadid, Algeria
The Gedi ruins were first discovered by colonialists in 1884 after a British resident of Zanzibar, Sir John Kirk, visited the site. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] However, the ruins remained obscured until their subsequent rediscovery in the 1920s, when the site began to gain attention from the British East African government.
The ruins were rediscovered during a hunting trip in 1867 by Adam Render, a German-American hunter, prospector and trader in southern Africa, [59] who in 1871 showed the ruins to Karl Mauch, a German explorer and geographer of Africa. Karl Mauch recorded the ruins 3 September 1871, and immediately speculated about a possible Biblical ...
The ancient history of Africa spans from the ancient period until the medieval and early modern period in the history of Africa. [a] ... Ruins of Qa'ableh, ...
An excavation at the Aççana Mound—the site of the ancient Anatolian city of Alalah, which served as the capital of the Mukis Kingdom and lives on in ruins that date as far back as 4,000 years ...
The site features the ruins of Dougga, a former capital of a Libyan–Punic state, which flourished under Ancient Rome and the Byzantine Empire, but declined in the Islamic period. [46] Amphitheatre of El Jem: El Djem, Tunisia