THE GOD OF THE IGBO AND JESUS CHRIST IS DIFFERENT
FROM THE GOD OF THE JEWS AND ISRAEL
FROM THE GOD OF THE JEWS AND ISRAEL
The Nag Hammadi books such as The Secret Book of John (which is said to contain hidden mysteries revealed to John, the brother of James by Jesus Christ after the Ascension); The Holy Book of the Great invisible Spirit (a book that was most likely written or dictated by Jesus himself because it details mysteries that could not emanate from any man; The Revelation of Adam and a host of others insist that there were two Gods: the God of Shem and the God of “Ham and Japheth” (Ham was always mentioned before Japheth). One of the Savior’s central hidden messages in The Nag Hammadi Scriptures is that Ham and Japheth, together with Jesus himself, are the spiritual descendants of Seth, Adam’s true son from the One True God, while Shem, the ancestor of the Semitic family of nations, to which the Israelites belong, is the classical antagonist of the Sethian spiritual lineage. Another central message of the Nag Hammadi is that the God that is known in the Hebrew Bible through the Judaic religion, is not the same God whom Jesus refers to as ‘My Father’. Jesus’ crucifixion by Jewish leaders was because they recognized that his teaching was in direct opposition to their religion and that he cast aspersion at their God, Jehovah also called Yahweh. Jesus never mentioned God by name and insists in The Nag Hammadi Scriptures that God has no name, and that any being with a name could only have been named by some one pre-existent to itself. Jesus repudiated the Sabbath, saying that God being infinite and incorporeal does not need a day of rest as human beings do. This rejection was mutual because the Jewish people have rebuffed Jesus and his religion to this day and are still waiting for the “true” Messiah of the Jews to come.
In fact the Biblical record of Jesus’ ancestry clearly states that he was descended through David and Jesse from the unbroken lineage of a Moabite (Canaanite) woman named Ruth. This is the only message of The Book of Ruth. Jesus Canaanite origin through the husbandless Moabite woman, Ruth, and the equally ‘husbandless’ Mary underscores the fact that there was more Canaanite and less Hebrew blood in him. And this was a direct denial of the fierce injunction of Yahweh that Israelites must never mix their blood with that of Canaanites either by marriage or by spoils of war. Yahweh insisted that all Canaanite communities should be exterminated, man and beast alike, to prevent genetic, hence religious mix-ups. All Abraham’s wars and those of his descendants were fought for one reason and one reason alone – to exterminate the Canaanites and possess their land and in so doing, wipe out their religion. This injunction is clearly delineated in The Temple Scroll and The War Scroll among the books of The Dead Sea Scrolls:
In the cities of the people I give you as inheritance, you should not leave alive any creature. Indeed you shall utterly exterminate the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, the Jebusites … as I have commanded you, that they may not teach you to practice … (as they do) to their gods. (Gerza Vermes transl., The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, 2004, p. 217)
All the tribes mentioned in the text are Canaanite tribes. Clearly the enmity between the Israelites and the Canaanites and the latter’s brethren, which includes the Egyptians (the descendants of Ham’s first son Mizraim) - a land extolled in The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, is a direct fall-out of the war of two gods – the God of Jesus, Adam, Seth, Ham, Canaan and the Igbo – the kingless generation - on the one hand, and the God of Noah, Shem, Abraham, Jacob and the Israelites on the other. The Dead Sea Scrolls records (in The Temple Scroll) that Yahweh instructed Moses that “when you enter the land which I give you … you my surely appoint over you the king whom I will choose. It is from among your brothers that you will appoint a king over you.” (Ibid., p. 213) This clearly shows that the Israelites could not be the same “kingless generation” mentioned in the Nag Hammadi. A passage in The War Scroll demonstrates the eternal command by Yahweh to the Israelites to exterminate the sons of Seth:
A star shall come out of Jacob and a scepter shall rise out of Israel. He shall smite the temples of Moab (Jesus’ ancestral roots) and destroy all the children of Seth. He shall rule out of Jacob and cause the survivors of the city to perish. The enemy shall be his possession and Israel shall accomplish mighty deeds. (The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, p. 176)
The Lost Book of Enki confirms the insinuations of the Forbidden Book of Enoch that Noah was a child of the Nephilim god Enki. Thus, by primogeniture, his first son was dedicated to the Nephilim tradition and worshipped the male deity, Jahweh whose other name was Marduk/Ra, the first son of Enki. Ham, Noah’s second son, thus became the first son in the lineage of the true God, the Great Invisible Spirit described in The Nag Hammadi as female in essence. Here we find the reason why the Hamites (Canaanites/Kwa, Egyptians, etc.) undertook to migrate to Africa after the Deluge to be united with the autochthonous Igbo who still held the true light of the living God – the only people who did not experience the Fall. But unfortunately Marduk followed them as Eri to divide and possibly rule them, in the hope to exterminate the memory, the worship, the religion and the light of the True God and convert them as his own. However, what happened was that rather than convert the Igbo to his own service, Marduk himself got converted and became a servant of the true God, albeit an imperfect one. But we do not have the space to go into all that in this short article.
What all these show is that the Igbo nations with their Kwa brethren have been in the epicenter of the world match of civilizations and the global struggle for supremacy among the gods of old. We have taken great pains to establish Igbo divine roots within the family of nations, its Pre-diluvial origins, its undeniable contributions to global civilizations and its Pre-Christian models of the message of Jesus Christ. Because we have delved into hitherto uncharted waters, it was unavoidable that this piece would be long. Our aim was to make our argument convincing enough to awaken new interest in this subject among scholars of Igbo and Kwa Studies and Sub-Saharan African Studies all over the world, and to induce a heightened sense of pride among Igbo people and their Kwa brethren in knowing who they are. The African Hamitic link is undeniable and ought to be researched by all Black Africans. This is just the tip of the iceberg. There is so much more that we cannot bring into this article, but which will be part of our soon to be published book on the subject.
In fact the Biblical record of Jesus’ ancestry clearly states that he was descended through David and Jesse from the unbroken lineage of a Moabite (Canaanite) woman named Ruth. This is the only message of The Book of Ruth. Jesus Canaanite origin through the husbandless Moabite woman, Ruth, and the equally ‘husbandless’ Mary underscores the fact that there was more Canaanite and less Hebrew blood in him. And this was a direct denial of the fierce injunction of Yahweh that Israelites must never mix their blood with that of Canaanites either by marriage or by spoils of war. Yahweh insisted that all Canaanite communities should be exterminated, man and beast alike, to prevent genetic, hence religious mix-ups. All Abraham’s wars and those of his descendants were fought for one reason and one reason alone – to exterminate the Canaanites and possess their land and in so doing, wipe out their religion. This injunction is clearly delineated in The Temple Scroll and The War Scroll among the books of The Dead Sea Scrolls:
In the cities of the people I give you as inheritance, you should not leave alive any creature. Indeed you shall utterly exterminate the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, the Jebusites … as I have commanded you, that they may not teach you to practice … (as they do) to their gods. (Gerza Vermes transl., The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, 2004, p. 217)
All the tribes mentioned in the text are Canaanite tribes. Clearly the enmity between the Israelites and the Canaanites and the latter’s brethren, which includes the Egyptians (the descendants of Ham’s first son Mizraim) - a land extolled in The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, is a direct fall-out of the war of two gods – the God of Jesus, Adam, Seth, Ham, Canaan and the Igbo – the kingless generation - on the one hand, and the God of Noah, Shem, Abraham, Jacob and the Israelites on the other. The Dead Sea Scrolls records (in The Temple Scroll) that Yahweh instructed Moses that “when you enter the land which I give you … you my surely appoint over you the king whom I will choose. It is from among your brothers that you will appoint a king over you.” (Ibid., p. 213) This clearly shows that the Israelites could not be the same “kingless generation” mentioned in the Nag Hammadi. A passage in The War Scroll demonstrates the eternal command by Yahweh to the Israelites to exterminate the sons of Seth:
A star shall come out of Jacob and a scepter shall rise out of Israel. He shall smite the temples of Moab (Jesus’ ancestral roots) and destroy all the children of Seth. He shall rule out of Jacob and cause the survivors of the city to perish. The enemy shall be his possession and Israel shall accomplish mighty deeds. (The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, p. 176)
The Lost Book of Enki confirms the insinuations of the Forbidden Book of Enoch that Noah was a child of the Nephilim god Enki. Thus, by primogeniture, his first son was dedicated to the Nephilim tradition and worshipped the male deity, Jahweh whose other name was Marduk/Ra, the first son of Enki. Ham, Noah’s second son, thus became the first son in the lineage of the true God, the Great Invisible Spirit described in The Nag Hammadi as female in essence. Here we find the reason why the Hamites (Canaanites/Kwa, Egyptians, etc.) undertook to migrate to Africa after the Deluge to be united with the autochthonous Igbo who still held the true light of the living God – the only people who did not experience the Fall. But unfortunately Marduk followed them as Eri to divide and possibly rule them, in the hope to exterminate the memory, the worship, the religion and the light of the True God and convert them as his own. However, what happened was that rather than convert the Igbo to his own service, Marduk himself got converted and became a servant of the true God, albeit an imperfect one. But we do not have the space to go into all that in this short article.
What all these show is that the Igbo nations with their Kwa brethren have been in the epicenter of the world match of civilizations and the global struggle for supremacy among the gods of old. We have taken great pains to establish Igbo divine roots within the family of nations, its Pre-diluvial origins, its undeniable contributions to global civilizations and its Pre-Christian models of the message of Jesus Christ. Because we have delved into hitherto uncharted waters, it was unavoidable that this piece would be long. Our aim was to make our argument convincing enough to awaken new interest in this subject among scholars of Igbo and Kwa Studies and Sub-Saharan African Studies all over the world, and to induce a heightened sense of pride among Igbo people and their Kwa brethren in knowing who they are. The African Hamitic link is undeniable and ought to be researched by all Black Africans. This is just the tip of the iceberg. There is so much more that we cannot bring into this article, but which will be part of our soon to be published book on the subject.
THE EGYPTIAN BENBEN/PRIMEVAL MOUND IN IGBO UKWU:
The Primeval Mound (plateau), which God raised up, and on which he stood while
commanding creation, was thereafter known as ‘the Covenant Mound’ in Egyptian mythology. Early Egyptians commemorated it with a small mound of sand with a flat surface as noted by Laird Scranton in a 2006 publication. It was a symbol of the Covenant which God made with his creation that he will always support what he made.
The Egyptians call the Mound the Benben. The Benben mound cannot be found in Egypt because it is actually located in Nigeria, in Igbo Ukwu. As in the case of the Benben, the Igbo Ukwu covenant mound is also believed to be the spot where God Stepped Down. Accordingly, it is called Oda, which means ‘Place of Stepping Down’. Oda is the Primeval Covenant Mound of all Ndi Igbo, and functions as the Judgement Seat of God – and as such is also called Ebe – which means ‘Place of Judgement’.
As the Highest Arbiter of all Ndi Igbo, this Mound is the Ebe of all Ebes in Igbo land, or Ebe Ebe, which sounds like the Egyptian word Benben. It appears that it was Igbo Ukwu Primeval Mound which gave rise to all the mound habitations created by early men mound-builders around the world. In fact in They Lived Before Adam, we had shown that ancient mound builders in the British Isles (3,000 B.C.) had left behind artefacts still in use in Igbo land such as ichi and craved ivory horns – Igbo symbols of royalty and authority.
Our work gave a relatively extensive illustration of the fact that Afa, a language of nature still in use by the Igbo Shaman, is the origin of words that cut across several languages in the world including Sanskrit. Igbo language spoken today originated directly from Afa, which in itself is a cosmic language, and, as we demonstrated in The Lost Testament, the bearer of the Sirian linguistic, cultural and genetic bloodline, which we find to have been handed down to humankind through the Igbo cosmos. This explains the use of Igbo language in the Hebrew Torah version of the story of Creation.
commanding creation, was thereafter known as ‘the Covenant Mound’ in Egyptian mythology. Early Egyptians commemorated it with a small mound of sand with a flat surface as noted by Laird Scranton in a 2006 publication. It was a symbol of the Covenant which God made with his creation that he will always support what he made.
The Egyptians call the Mound the Benben. The Benben mound cannot be found in Egypt because it is actually located in Nigeria, in Igbo Ukwu. As in the case of the Benben, the Igbo Ukwu covenant mound is also believed to be the spot where God Stepped Down. Accordingly, it is called Oda, which means ‘Place of Stepping Down’. Oda is the Primeval Covenant Mound of all Ndi Igbo, and functions as the Judgement Seat of God – and as such is also called Ebe – which means ‘Place of Judgement’.
As the Highest Arbiter of all Ndi Igbo, this Mound is the Ebe of all Ebes in Igbo land, or Ebe Ebe, which sounds like the Egyptian word Benben. It appears that it was Igbo Ukwu Primeval Mound which gave rise to all the mound habitations created by early men mound-builders around the world. In fact in They Lived Before Adam, we had shown that ancient mound builders in the British Isles (3,000 B.C.) had left behind artefacts still in use in Igbo land such as ichi and craved ivory horns – Igbo symbols of royalty and authority.
Our work gave a relatively extensive illustration of the fact that Afa, a language of nature still in use by the Igbo Shaman, is the origin of words that cut across several languages in the world including Sanskrit. Igbo language spoken today originated directly from Afa, which in itself is a cosmic language, and, as we demonstrated in The Lost Testament, the bearer of the Sirian linguistic, cultural and genetic bloodline, which we find to have been handed down to humankind through the Igbo cosmos. This explains the use of Igbo language in the Hebrew Torah version of the story of Creation.
Israel, the chosen people of God is different from Igbo, a nation of Gods and Goddesses, a holy people.
We recall the man with two forehead concentric circles among the Igbo Ukwu sacred artifacts which we discussed earlier, and the definition of two concentric circles given in Nag Hammadi, whereby “the first (sphere)” is “the self-begotten Soul (un-conceived Father)”. It goes around “the second sphere, the Son – … the only-begotten soul”. (p. 642) The kingless generations are also called “the unshakable generation of the perfect human” in The Nag Hammadi. We call them the ‘no shaking’ people, borrowing the words of Enugu State politicians. Their origin is “immeasurable light, pure, holy, immaculate.” (Nag Hammadi, p. 109) They are from a realm about which it is said: “time was not allotted to it”, an “eternal day… with unlimited number of days” (Nag Hammadi p. 108, 336). There, in the immeasurable light of the Father, they lacked nothing, for the Father was “absolutely complete” in Himself. Thus the Father’s offspring are called “the Children of the Light”. The Nag Hammadi separates them from the ordinary humans created by the forces of darkness such as described in the Jewish Bible by a god who appeared from a realm where “Darkness covered the face of the Deep”, and who had to decree physical light, before “there was light”.
Startling parallels exist between this and Igbo folklore detailing a period which Adiele Afigbo calls the “Eternal Day”, the Age of Innocence and none-time, spent in a realm of Light and Eternal Glory, where the Igbo were sustained by God-substance and maintained unbroken communication with God their Father and never slept (perpetual consciousness). The Nag Hammadi says that this situation remained unbroken until Sophia a female angel gave birth to a being without the permission of God. This being, was godless and became jealous of the Son of God, the Immortal Human Being, Adam, and plotted to bring him down. He separated Adam from the eternal light and presence of God and gave him physical food to eat. Like the Igbo when Adam ate this food, he fell to the ground and slid into a deep sleep (he slept for the first time), the sleep of “ignorance”. Afigbo wrote that
Igbo world started on a pedestal of high spirituality in which there was perpetual day, regular converse with their High God who fed them on ethereal food… All went well until one day a woman whose menstrual flows were on attempted to harvest the sky substance for food… The result was that Chineke (God) and the sky receded, plunging them into famine ... With the eating of material food came … the fall. Man slept for the first time and night (darkness) descended for the first time too… i.e. his consciousness fell. (Afigbo, Igbo History and Society, p. 465)
The similarities between these two stories are uncanny. The fact that Igbo accounts of their origins has the exact same details as the Nag Hammadi account of the origins of a kingless generation of sons of God, shows that these two accounts are speaking about the same group of people! This fact is critical to our thesis that the secret teachings of The Nag Hammadi scriptures which was hidden away in Egypt (Africa) by Jesus and his inner caucus disciples, and which is called the African Gospel , was directed at the Igbo and their Kwa brethren, the sons of God who are the hope of the earth! Neither is possible to gloss over the fact that in Igbo language, Adaa-m means ‘I have fallen’. Cleary there is a great mystery here. Between the Igbo who originally shared the consciousness of a God of Light, and the Israelites whose God moved about in waters that were covered by darkness, before creating physical light – Let there be Light! There is a discrepancy not just between those people who lay claim to being the chosen people of God and those who are convinced that they are a nation of Gods and Goddesses, a holy people, beings of Light whose true nature is the nature of the deity!
Startling parallels exist between this and Igbo folklore detailing a period which Adiele Afigbo calls the “Eternal Day”, the Age of Innocence and none-time, spent in a realm of Light and Eternal Glory, where the Igbo were sustained by God-substance and maintained unbroken communication with God their Father and never slept (perpetual consciousness). The Nag Hammadi says that this situation remained unbroken until Sophia a female angel gave birth to a being without the permission of God. This being, was godless and became jealous of the Son of God, the Immortal Human Being, Adam, and plotted to bring him down. He separated Adam from the eternal light and presence of God and gave him physical food to eat. Like the Igbo when Adam ate this food, he fell to the ground and slid into a deep sleep (he slept for the first time), the sleep of “ignorance”. Afigbo wrote that
Igbo world started on a pedestal of high spirituality in which there was perpetual day, regular converse with their High God who fed them on ethereal food… All went well until one day a woman whose menstrual flows were on attempted to harvest the sky substance for food… The result was that Chineke (God) and the sky receded, plunging them into famine ... With the eating of material food came … the fall. Man slept for the first time and night (darkness) descended for the first time too… i.e. his consciousness fell. (Afigbo, Igbo History and Society, p. 465)
The similarities between these two stories are uncanny. The fact that Igbo accounts of their origins has the exact same details as the Nag Hammadi account of the origins of a kingless generation of sons of God, shows that these two accounts are speaking about the same group of people! This fact is critical to our thesis that the secret teachings of The Nag Hammadi scriptures which was hidden away in Egypt (Africa) by Jesus and his inner caucus disciples, and which is called the African Gospel , was directed at the Igbo and their Kwa brethren, the sons of God who are the hope of the earth! Neither is possible to gloss over the fact that in Igbo language, Adaa-m means ‘I have fallen’. Cleary there is a great mystery here. Between the Igbo who originally shared the consciousness of a God of Light, and the Israelites whose God moved about in waters that were covered by darkness, before creating physical light – Let there be Light! There is a discrepancy not just between those people who lay claim to being the chosen people of God and those who are convinced that they are a nation of Gods and Goddesses, a holy people, beings of Light whose true nature is the nature of the deity!
RIVER NIGER/YAM SUFF: THE BEARER OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
The River Niger was known as Yam Suff (or Stream of Osiris) to the Egyptians, because Osiris was Yama, a local variation of the name Rama. Yama was the name of the god of Death in India, a position occupied by Osiris in the Egyptian pantheon. Yam Suff according to the Hebrew Torah was the River of Moses’ Exodus Crossing from Egypt with the Israelites. Zecharia Sitchen noted that the Stream of Osiris (Niger) was located on the way to the underground Duat which we have identified as being located in West Africa and precisely in the Cameroon Mountain range, not too far from Arochukwu where the Igbo entrance to the underground Duat is located.
We have conclusively confirmed Hebrew origins in ancient Nigeria, from Abraham and his Edomite children to Joseph’s origins in Panchea. Several chapters devoted to the concept of Panchea in They Lived Before Adam, show that it was located in the Nigeria/Cameroon axis in West Africa, and was actually called ‘Biafra’ empire in mythical times.
The Kwa population in the world-famous Hyksos Exodus of the Semites from Egypt and their role in fertilizing Middle Eastern civilization including setting up settlements in Palestine and the Levant, the rise of the Hittite, Minoan, Cretan, Greek, Trojan and other Middle Eastern civilizations as a result of the Hyksos migrations from Egypt; the West African origins of the Hyksos and the centrality of Igbo Ukwu and the River Niger in the seeding the Middle East with a ‘Made in West Africa’ writing system, language and mystical culture, is the subject developed among other equally engaging issues in The Lost Testament of the Ancestors of Adam.
All this is in sync with the claim by Herodotus that the Niger was the original source of the Nile. Herodotus had noted equally that “the names of all the gods of Greece came from Egypt (and) this statement was never chall-enged in Antiquity”. Igbo influences affected the Aegean through Egypt whose original capital was Igbo Ukwu. In fact the ancient Egyptians and Dravidians and their civilizations were all products of Pre-historic Igbo land. James Brunson who studied the Cretan civilization of Mycenae and the artefacts and wall paintings excavated by Arthur Evans in the palace of Knossos noted without equivocation that “the civilization belonged to an African people”, an observation which confirms that of Evans himself.
In They Lived Before Adam we drew parallels between some of images from Knossos and those from the Igbo environment. In their study of megalithic cultures of Europe R.M. De Longe and Jay Wakefield (a Dutch and an American) have discovered an ancient stone map in a megalithic grave in France showing the precise entry to the River Niger , thus adding wight to our thesis that the Niger was the bearer of ancient civilizations and culture-bearing migrations. Indeed the answer as to whether the Igbo were the first people, takes us back to excavations carried out in the early 1970s by a team of archaeologists from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka led by Prof. F.N. Anozie.
These archaeologists found evidence of Prehistoric habitations of Early Stone Age people in Igbo land dating back to before 500,000 B.C. Their excavations carried out in Ugwuele, Isiukwuato in Old Okigwe (present day Abia State), makes a case for an Igbo-based earliest habitation of Homo Erectus in the world and that Igbo land was the global industry of Stone Age tools that might have supplied other parts of the world with hand-axes. More than that, the peripheral findings of the archaeologists suggest that Igbo land holds answers to human evolution, answers which future research will determine.
We have conclusively confirmed Hebrew origins in ancient Nigeria, from Abraham and his Edomite children to Joseph’s origins in Panchea. Several chapters devoted to the concept of Panchea in They Lived Before Adam, show that it was located in the Nigeria/Cameroon axis in West Africa, and was actually called ‘Biafra’ empire in mythical times.
The Kwa population in the world-famous Hyksos Exodus of the Semites from Egypt and their role in fertilizing Middle Eastern civilization including setting up settlements in Palestine and the Levant, the rise of the Hittite, Minoan, Cretan, Greek, Trojan and other Middle Eastern civilizations as a result of the Hyksos migrations from Egypt; the West African origins of the Hyksos and the centrality of Igbo Ukwu and the River Niger in the seeding the Middle East with a ‘Made in West Africa’ writing system, language and mystical culture, is the subject developed among other equally engaging issues in The Lost Testament of the Ancestors of Adam.
All this is in sync with the claim by Herodotus that the Niger was the original source of the Nile. Herodotus had noted equally that “the names of all the gods of Greece came from Egypt (and) this statement was never chall-enged in Antiquity”. Igbo influences affected the Aegean through Egypt whose original capital was Igbo Ukwu. In fact the ancient Egyptians and Dravidians and their civilizations were all products of Pre-historic Igbo land. James Brunson who studied the Cretan civilization of Mycenae and the artefacts and wall paintings excavated by Arthur Evans in the palace of Knossos noted without equivocation that “the civilization belonged to an African people”, an observation which confirms that of Evans himself.
In They Lived Before Adam we drew parallels between some of images from Knossos and those from the Igbo environment. In their study of megalithic cultures of Europe R.M. De Longe and Jay Wakefield (a Dutch and an American) have discovered an ancient stone map in a megalithic grave in France showing the precise entry to the River Niger , thus adding wight to our thesis that the Niger was the bearer of ancient civilizations and culture-bearing migrations. Indeed the answer as to whether the Igbo were the first people, takes us back to excavations carried out in the early 1970s by a team of archaeologists from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka led by Prof. F.N. Anozie.
These archaeologists found evidence of Prehistoric habitations of Early Stone Age people in Igbo land dating back to before 500,000 B.C. Their excavations carried out in Ugwuele, Isiukwuato in Old Okigwe (present day Abia State), makes a case for an Igbo-based earliest habitation of Homo Erectus in the world and that Igbo land was the global industry of Stone Age tools that might have supplied other parts of the world with hand-axes. More than that, the peripheral findings of the archaeologists suggest that Igbo land holds answers to human evolution, answers which future research will determine.
In 1950, Thurstan Shaw, a British Archaeologist excavated Igbo Ukwu
In 1950, Thurstan Shaw, a British Archaeologist excavated Igbo Ukwu, the bastion of ancient Igbo civilization and unearthed what could easily fill an entire museum from only three pits. Igbo Ukwu goods proved to be an enigma because it had no relationship with any other goods excavated in other parts of Nigeria or Africa. To add to the puzzle, it was found to relate more to India and this was stated in all studies done at the time.
Since 1990, Professor Catherine Acholonu has been conducting field and library research on African Pre-history. In the process she has discovered that ancient Africans wrote inscriptions on stone, pottery and metal, and that most of the items found in Igbo Ukwu carry symbols also found in ancient Egypt, India and throughout the Middle East.
Based on these Acholonu took her research team to Igbo Ukwu to conduct interviews and found out that random ‘excavation’ of buried metal, pottery and piles of beads have been going on for as long as the town has been in existence (continuing even after Shaw’s excavation), yet no one within living memory knows who left them.
She concluded that Igbo Ukwu is standing on a lost city of time immemorial – a Pre-Historic civilization!
(More of Acholonu's write ups and relevant images from her researchon diverse related topics are to be found on the official website of Catherine Acholonu ResearchCenter: www.carcafriculture.org)
Since 1990, Professor Catherine Acholonu has been conducting field and library research on African Pre-history. In the process she has discovered that ancient Africans wrote inscriptions on stone, pottery and metal, and that most of the items found in Igbo Ukwu carry symbols also found in ancient Egypt, India and throughout the Middle East.
Based on these Acholonu took her research team to Igbo Ukwu to conduct interviews and found out that random ‘excavation’ of buried metal, pottery and piles of beads have been going on for as long as the town has been in existence (continuing even after Shaw’s excavation), yet no one within living memory knows who left them.
She concluded that Igbo Ukwu is standing on a lost city of time immemorial – a Pre-Historic civilization!
(More of Acholonu's write ups and relevant images from her researchon diverse related topics are to be found on the official website of Catherine Acholonu ResearchCenter: www.carcafriculture.org)
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