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The origin and history of sailing and its spread throughout the world is similar to that of other knowledge we now possess. Navigation of waters by various methods began in Africa and then spread to the rest of the world. A black tide spread itself across rivers, seas and oceans in the same manner the black tide spread itself by land, both accomplishing human migration.
Many Thousands Of Years Ago The First Sailors Were The Kushites (Cushites)
“Myers tells us in his Ancient History, that just as the "Odyssey" of Homer mirrored the trade voyages of the prehistoric Greeks, so the marvelous tales of Sinbad the Sailor pictured the adventures of the Cushite Arabian sailors upon the seas. The ships of these Ethiopians in the early ages of their dominion covered the ancient world. It was from this branch of the race, that the early race of India gained the knowledge that appears in Sanskrit books, that contain maps upon which we can trace the outlines of Western Europe and the British Isles. These books portray knowledge of ages prior to 2000 B. C. The Phoenicians in later times only followed courses that their Cushite cousins had pursued in earlier ages. They learned geography from their wide conquests and extended trade relations. The Portuguese found maps and charts in their possession when they first came in contact with them on the coasts of East Africa, which were original and authentic. Some showed routes extending to the new world long before the age of Columbus.” (1)
“M. de Bohn tells us in Early Cushite Navigation, that the Cushite Ethiopians in primitive ages were a commercial people. It was due to their conquest of the sea that they so early covered three continents with colonies. With their ships they had in ancient days circumnavigated the globe, bequeathing maps, charts, and nautical instruments to their cousins and successors the Phoenicians, who called themselves Ethiopians.” (2)
Boat Building 2420 – 2270 B.C.E.
“At the time of Uni, Governor of Ta-Nehisi (Nubia or Zeti), Ta-Nehisi had the largest boat building industry of anyone along the Nile.” (3) Obviously, boat building and shipbuilding occurred prior to this time.
Tall Ships – 1600 B.C.E.
“Under Queen Hatshepsut, Kemet had civilized the world and was cruising the seas in tall ships.” (4) Kemet was a Kushite colony and received most of their know-how from their family members in the heart of Africa.
Kemet Sailors – 1580 B.C.E.
“The England of the Megalithic period felt the impact of a strong Negroid Egyptian-Phoenician influence. In fact, the first Phoenician and Sidonian navigations of the Bronze Age are contemporaneous with the 18th Egyptian Dynasty [1580 - 1349 B. C. E.]” (5)
Kemet Sailors – 600 B.C.E.
“The use of navigation and navigational instruments by using the sun and the stars as navigational tools—we have the best record of that going back even before Pharaoh Necho II, who saw the navigation of the entire continent and had a map of Africa in almost the common shape it is; and that dates to ca 600 B.C.E. Whereas Herodotus, who came to Egypt in 457 B.C.E., and Erastosthenes, who came there between 274–194 B.C.E., used maps which were rectangular in shape. They reflected the end of Africa being where the Sahara is, the southern end of the Sahara, meaning that they had no concept of Africa from about Ethiopia south to Monomotapa, now called the Republic of South Africa.” (6)
Sailing During Biblical Solomon & Queen Of Sheba's Time
“Ailah (Eloth), and Atsiom-Gaber (Hesien-Geber.) The name of the first of these towns still subsists in its ruins, at the point of the gulf of the Red Sea, and in the route which the pilgrims take to Mecca. Hesion has at present no trace, any more than Quolzoum and Faran: it was, however, the harbor for the fleets of Solomon. The vessels of this prince conducted by the Tyrians [Phoenicians], sailed along the coast of Arabia to Ophir, in the Persian Gulf, thus opening a communication with the merchants of India and Ceylon. That this navigation was entirely of Tyrian invention,
appears both from the pilots and shipbuilders employed by the Jews, and the names that were given to the trading islands, viz. Tyrus and Aradus, now Barhain.” (7)
Additional Articles
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Did Humans Colonize the World by Boat? Research suggests our ancestors traveled the oceans 70,000 years ago.
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4,600 year old ship found beside Great Pyramid Footnotes:
(1) Houston, Drusilla Dunjee, "Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire," Chapter IX, The Marvelous Arabian Civilization
(2) Houston, Drusilla Dunjee, "Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire," Chapter XI, The Strange Races Of Chaldea
(3) Jochannan-ben, Yosef, “Black Man Of The Nile And His Family”, p. 118. paraphrased. And page 158 for dates.
(4) Diop, Cheikh Anta, “Civilization Or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology: Translated from the French by Yaa-Lengi Meema Ngemi (Chicago Review Press, 1991)”, p. , p. 213. Paraphrased.
(5) Ibid., p. 19. AND
Jochannan-ben, Yosef, “Black Man Of The Nile And His Family”, p. 158-159.
(6) ben-Jochannan, Dr. Yosef, "The Nile Valley Civilization and the
Spread of African Culture,The Nile Valley Civilization and the Spread of African Culture”)
(7) Volney, C. F., "The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Ruins by C. F. Volney”, The Ruins Or Meditation On The Revolutions Of Empires: And The Law Of Nature
