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Obviously the big stone pyramid structure is unique to the Nile Valley, but does anyone here know if other African cultures constructed royal tombs with any degree of likeness to Egyptian tombs? Or did the Nile Valley people come up with the idea on their own?
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quote:Originally posted by Tyrann0saurus: Obviously the big stone pyramid structure is unique to the Nile Valley, but does anyone here know if other African cultures constructed royal tombs with any degree of likeness to Egyptian tombs? Or did the Nile Valley people come up with the idea on their own?
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Stone tombs for sacred animals and ancestors is found across the Sahara/Sahel dating to the Neolithic period.
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quote:Originally posted by Tyrann0saurus: Obviously the big stone pyramid structure is unique to the Nile Valley, but does anyone here know if other African cultures constructed royal tombs with any degree of likeness to Egyptian tombs? Or did the Nile Valley people come up with the idea on their own?
well yeah pyramids are thought of being stereotypically egyptian structures, but that's far from the truth! pyramids appear in other cultures across the world, including other ones on the african continent! There are the Igbo pyramids in nigeria, although im not sure if they were tombs or just shrines of some sort..and then there's the Askia tomb, which was part of the ancient saharan tradition of burying kings in mud-brick tombs..so yea pyramids are pretty general thing Posts: 447 | From: Somewhere son... | Registered: Sep 2006
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quote:Originally posted by Tyrann0saurus: Obviously the big stone pyramid structure is unique to the Nile Valley, but does anyone here know if other African cultures constructed royal tombs with any degree of likeness to Egyptian tombs? Or did the Nile Valley people come up with the idea on their own?
well yeah pyramids are thought of being stereotypically egyptian structures, but that's far from the truth! pyramids appear in other cultures across the world, including other ones on the african continent! There are the Igbo pyramids in nigeria, although im not sure if they were tombs or just shrines of some sort..and then there's the Askia tomb, which was part of the ancient saharan tradition of burying kings in mud-brick tombs..so yea pyramids are pretty general thing
Evergreen Writes:
The pyramids of Egypt descend from the neolithic cultures of the sahara/sahel and have a more specific history.
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quote:Originally posted by Tyrann0saurus: Obviously the big stone pyramid structure is unique to the Nile Valley, but does anyone here know if other African cultures constructed royal tombs with any degree of likeness to Egyptian tombs? Or did the Nile Valley people come up with the idea on their own?
The pyramid itself evolved from simpler tombs and other burial sites reserved for royalty, but in no way was such an idea unique to Egyptians only. Heck, even the earliest complex graves found in the Nile Valley are not Egyptian but really 'Nubian'. Also, while Egyptians during the early dynastic periods were building pyramids, Nubian peoples like the people of Kerma buried their kings in massive mound tombs called 'tumuli' by archaeologists. Again these are not the only examples in Africa. I have read many sources which speak of royal tombs in West African kingdoms and even some in Central Africa.
My advise to you T-rex, is again do some research or look it up. I'm telling you there are many finds of royal tombs and sacred burial grounds in other parts of Africa.
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quote:Originally posted by Tyrann0saurus: Obviously the big stone pyramid structure is unique to the Nile Valley, but does anyone here know if other African cultures constructed royal tombs with any degree of likeness to Egyptian tombs? Or did the Nile Valley people come up with the idea on their own?
Yes they are called oka ceremonies,effigies are created and buried with the higher kings or the mother of higher kings.There was a small exavaction in an area called ita yemoo in the old city of old oyo, which uncovered a semi-tomb over some 60 acres,which had many bronzes and sacrificed victims with smaller effgies of them buried within it.West African kingdoms in Ancient times were very much ranked societies and many areas still are.
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