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ausar Member # 1797	posted ... by a Swede no less! quote: Nikolaj Cyon Alkebu-lan 1260 AH ... worked with precolonial Africa as a theme in my art for over a year. I have, as a mind experiment, made a map of what Africa could have looked like ... ... real historical precolonial African nations, and I have tried to form a map of the most prominent of those that existed between the 15th and mid 19th century, by looking at historical maps like the one found in UNESCO's “A General History of Africa”, linguistic regions and natural boundaries. http://www.cyon.se/#!alkebu-lan/ck0q ------------------ image linked to amazing hi-rez oversized painstakingly detailed map
zarahan- aka Enrique Cardova Member # 15718	posted On the same website rounding up interesting maps, Wikipedia has a map out supposedly showing African empires circa 500bc to 1500AD. But it completely misses the kingdom of Meroe/Kush.. How could any list of African empires supposedly spanning 2000 years leave out Kush/Meroe?
mena7 Member # 20555	posted Beautiful African map, it is very hard to read upside down.
ausar Member # 1797	posted Ah, but you see south oriented as the prime direction is right side up. Euros inverted north as prime direction hence what you see as right side up is Eurocentric. We discussed this years ago when looking at a variety of the earliest maps of Africa. http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=006697#000015 http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=007249#000009 Did you check out that guy's Prezi presentation? https://prezi.com/zqjrcx-uj7d_/alkebu-lan-1260-ah-presentation/ What a teaching tool!
the lioness, Member # 17353	posted quote: Originally posted by ausar: [QB] ... by a Swede no less! [QUOTE]Nikolaj Cyon Alkebu-lan 1260 AH what is the origin of the name Alkebulan? a claim on assatashakur: quote: As we show in Part 3 of our book, the name Alkebulan (Alkebulam) was addressed briefly by Leo Africanus in his 'History of Africa' over 500 years ago. This is where Dr. Ben got the term. Leo Africanus was unaware of the actual origins of the name Alkebulan however. We address this fully in our book: AFURAKA/AFURAITKAIT - The Origin of the term 'Africa'
lamin Member # 5777	posted Ausar, How did China and Japan draw maps in the premodern era?
lamin Member # 5777	posted If Ancient Egyptians and Nubians(Meroe) drew maps how would they draw them?
ausar Member # 1797	posted R. Morden, on a map dated 1688 CE, attributes Alkebu-lan to the Æthiopians and Moors while John Pory in one of the works he attached to his 1600 CE translation of Leo Africanus credits the Arabians and Ethiopians with the use of Alkebulam. I can't say who either Morden or Pory explicitly means by Ethiopians, Moors, or Arabians because these ethnonyms were used generically by Europeans at that time. Also, Morden differs from Pory in the spelling of the word. Morden ends it in an "N" while Pory ends it with an "M." Arabic and "Ethiopic" are both Semitic AfroAsiatic languages but so far, to the best of my research, no historian or linguist has uncovered Alkebu-lan nor Alkebulam in any Arabic or Amharic (or other Ethiopian language) primary source document. . I gave links which show a medieval era Chinese map of Africa and talk about orientation in ancient Egypt. The only AE map I know about is just short "road map" looking thing w/no compass. BTW look at the From: parm, I'm not Ausar.
LEDAMA Member # 21677	posted But the map is written in Swahili,i know because i happen to be a fluent swahili speaker..In ancient times, swahili was written in arabic,but nowdays it is written in Latin
Ish Gebor Member # 18264	posted quote: Originally posted by mena7: Beautiful African map, it is very hard to read upside down. The actual text is not upside down.