#Canyon
Canyon to the Green Sahara
https://youtu.be/8de9G1w6kUA?is=6UKC6Z50afkSFDsr
Taking breaks from hauling things to the dumpsters...doing that I can't do this!...sisiphus breaks...fump...open the scroll, and an Austin Powers add...from yesterday pinkie up...go figure...
https://youtu.be/DoQH7LOw5h0?is=0OTl5F-x8OSgIWAQ
One canyon leads from Abydos up on to the Sahara Plateau...using google earth trying to picture this...it was a route with way stations, donkeys likely the only transport...like the dogs, a donkey graveyard at Abydos...
✨️donkeys at Abydos
🎶Just a few, and human skeletons with bone deformities typical of riding donkeys-horses-bow legged...the Canyon trail thought to go all the way to area of Chad...once there were giant lakes thereabout...and here's the blog site that has take:
🧐https://share.google/sVsiJZ7zXYoGW5P5R
If you continue southwest you’ll cross the border into southeast Libya and, if you keep on going, venture into the northeast corner of Chad, in Central Africa.
It’s a daunting, perilous, journey. And now, thanks to a body of new archaeological, textual, environmental and linguistic research, we have evidence that the ancient Egyptians undertook it.
In an article recently published in the Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Thomas Schneider, a professor at the University of British Columbia, lays out this wide assortment of evidence.
“It’s something really new,” said Professor Schneider in a telephone interview. “There’s a new window opening into the past of Egypt.”
🎶It's a new focus, but an old notion that the Egyptians came from the Sahara...people looking for greener lands as the Sahara dried out...
✨️sahara early proponents
+7The theory that Ancient Egyptians migrated from a green, habitable Sahara to the Nile Valley as the desert dried out is known as the Green Sahara or Saharan Pump theory. This connection remains a foundational concept in the understanding of predynastic Egyptian population history and state formation. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Key Proponents and Scholars
• Dr. Karl Butzer: A pioneering geographer and environmental archaeologist who, in his 1976 foundational book Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt, extensively explored how changing mid-Holocene environments and the drying of the Sahara pushed pastoralist groups to settle permanently along the Nile. [1]Dr. Fred Wendorf: A prominent archaeologist who led massive excavations at Nabta Playa in the Egyptian Sahara. His work in the 1970s and 1980s produced definitive evidence of early cattle herding, complex societal structures, and religious practices in the desert that predated the Pharaohs, which he argued migrated to the Nile. [1, 2]Dr. Frank Yurco: An Egyptologist at the Field Museum in Chicago who championed the perspective that the roots of Egyptian pharaonic kingship and culture were deeply embedded in northeast African and Saharan pastoral traditions.UNESCO International Scientific Committee: In Volume II of the General History of Africa (published in 1981), scholars strongly argued that Egypt was an indigenous African civilization with a mixed population that originated largely in the Sahara. [1]Dr. Rudolph Petri: An early 20th-century anthropologist who, based on his excavations in predynastic Egyptian cemeteries (such as at Badari), proposed an indigenous African, Saharan, and Nubian basis for the earliest Egyptians.
Why the Theory Emerged
During the African Humid Period (roughly 12,000 to 5,000 years ago), the Sahara was a lush grassland populated by mobile pastoralists. As the climate abruptly changed and the desert desiccated (around 3900 B.C.), these populations were forced to relocate to the only permanent water source: the Nile River. The integration of these Saharan nomadic cultures with indigenous Nilotic populations and later Near Eastern farmers is considered the catalyst for the development of Egyptian civilization. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
🎶can't consider this and not wonder if the "12,000" years time is linked to the Younger Dryas...
✨️Sahara drying coincides with Younger Dryas
Yes, there is a clear, documented link between Sahara drying and the Younger Dryas. [1]
The abrupt return to near-glacial, cold, and dry conditions in the Northern Hemisphere between 12,900 and 11,700 years ago caused a massive disruption to the African Humid Period. As the North Atlantic cooled, the West African monsoon weakened, rapidly shifting North Africa into a sharp, regional arid phase. [1, 2, 3, 4]
The climate anomaly caused several distinct effects:
• Monsoon Collapse: The southward shift of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) starved the Sahara of its usual monsoon rains, leading to a severe drop in net precipitation. [1, 2]Vegetation Loss: Lush savannahs and temporary lakes shrank significantly, forcing localized vegetation into desert-like scrub. [1, 2]Prehistoric Migration: The resulting hardship forced early human groups in the Sahara to adapt or move to more reliable water sources, such as the Nile Valley. [1, 2]
🎶deserts thereabout are really really dry, like Peru...unlike hereabout where there is scrub...which makes me think a sudden change caught plant evolition flat footed...
✨️why are Sahara, Saudi Arabia, deserts without plant life?
Nutrient-Poor, Porous Soil: The soil is heavily weathered and consists mostly of sand or bare rock. Sand drains water instantly and is very low in the organic matter necessary to sustain plant growth. [1, 2, 3, 4]Cyclical Climate Shifts: Geological studies show that both the Sahara and the Arabian Peninsula were once lush savannas. However, natural 41,000-year cycles in Earth's tilt and orbit cause these regions to oscillate between wet periods and extreme deserts. [1, 2, 3]
✨️why are Peru's deserts without plant life?
✨️are some deserts too new for plants to adapt to them?
🎶nope, ai says...but see its say!...anyway, I left a comment to the aforementioned blog...
I was having this idea...this idea!...and found this looking for it...Pashedu Tomb Western Mountain...Donkey trail into the Western Desert-famous cave there...rock art nomadic herding hunting...dogs with leashes-red sash...Osiris with red sash...Anubis guardian with sash...Abydos 1st Dynasty Tombs...Osieron...Pilgrimage journey to Osiros birth place...this trail trails off into the Western Desert, aaand that was my track to here...cool!
🎶the "idea" being the canyon trail, and the blog links it to one of Book of Gates, that that journey has elements of the for real Trail into the Western Sahara...
🧐(47) The West Beyond the West: The Mysterious “Wernes” of the Egyptian Underworld and the Chad Palaeolake
A e Amduat, one of the Egyptian guides to the underworld, provides specific descriptions and measurements relating to the first three hours aer sunset, during which the sun god Re passes through an interstitial realm (the first hour) before arriving at two gigantic sweet-water oceans (the second and third hours). Rather than seeing in this imagery reflections of the unconscious and antecedents of modern psychotherapy (as has been proposed by some modern scholars), the present work argues that the description was inspired by actual knowledge of the environment of the region to the distant southwest of the Nile Valley, beyond the Gilf Kebir and Gebel Uweinat on modern Egypt’s southwest corner. Recent evi- dence has made plausible that the Abu Ballas Trail connected Egypt with the Chad Basin of Central Aica. Elements of the factual description provided in the Amduat (including environmental and linguistic details; e.g., the hitherto unexplained name “Wernes”) can be corroborated by modern palaeoecological reconstruction of the area as having comprised gigantic palaeolakes, as well as by linguistic and narrative evidence.
🎶Beyond Beyond!...neat...back to the dumpsters...
:)
DavidDavid
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