Mesopotamia -- Paintings from Mari

From the palace of Mari’s Palm Court. The walls were covered with elaborate paintings depicting the deeds of Mari’s kings as well as depictions of daily life in the city. Mari flourished circa 2900 B.C. - 1761 B.C., in the present-day Iraq/Syria border area. -- The entire Middle East was the Black Lands.

Blacks and Native Americans--the Jury is Still Out... .

The jury is still out on reconciling whether the Incas, Aztecs, and Mayans were aboriginal looking--what has been called aboriginal looking, or were they the mixed red man (Mongoloid/Africoid) that we have come to call the American Indian. The Egypt Search site had some interesting debate on the issue so I decided to post this artifact that has been posited in some camps as Inca noblemen and in others as Spanish soldiers wearing Inca nose jewelry.

Interestingly, a basic google of "Incas, Aztecs, and Mayans" has the indigenous people of the Americas looking pink colored.

Clarifying the Out-of-Africa Migrations... .

The out-of-Africa paradigm that early Africans traveled overland to the far reaches of the world needs to be modified to reflect the  more natural patterns of migration, which would have occurred along the Indian Ocean shores. The Dravidians of India, Indonesian, and Pacific Island Black people emerged from natural generation-to-generation migrations of Africans following the coastlines. In some cases, Monsoon storms would have transported lost boaters across the expanse in short periods. 

We Must Expand Our Cognitive Map Globally... .

The long siege of the Pacific Islands continues.  How many more of the West Papua New Guinean's must die before we raise our voices?

Remember, we often muse: Why didn't the continental Africans somehow work to help us during our long night of enslavement... . 

Black History: Ethiopian Jews in Israel

The Ethiopian Jews are direct descendants from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.