why are some somalis obsessed with the land of Punt
so what if we share a few words with the ancient Egyptians and have the same type of head rest. we had never heard about Punt before 70s, it was appropriate by the government to give a ancient legacy to the new state. we trade with greeks, Sabeans, indians and Chineses but we don't claim that we came from them or they came from us.
it time to dispel his myth and reclaim our sanity.
if we had invested the same amount of energy in discovering our past rather than claim foreigner like egyptian, Arabian only god know what we could have discovered now. it wouldn't have taken some white person to discover the Laas Gaal pictographs the honor would have been ours. beside their is an ancient civilization in northern somalia, the once who build the wargaal wall, Taalos, and fortress of Botiala.
also we should invest in Marine archeologies, hundred of ships have been sunk along our coast for thousand of years. Bari was truly shipbreaker bay with unseasonable weather, storms, whirlpools and crags, reefs and shoals, many ships have been sunk over the centuries. the omanis even had a prayer to protect them agains the weather of Northern Somalia .
so what if we share a few words with the ancient Egyptians and have the same type of head rest. we had never heard about Punt before 70s, it was appropriate by the government to give a ancient legacy to the new state. we trade with greeks, Sabeans, indians and Chineses but we don't claim that we came from them or they came from us.
it time to dispel his myth and reclaim our sanity.
if we had invested the same amount of energy in discovering our past rather than claim foreigner like egyptian, Arabian only god know what we could have discovered now. it wouldn't have taken some white person to discover the Laas Gaal pictographs the honor would have been ours. beside their is an ancient civilization in northern somalia, the once who build the wargaal wall, Taalos, and fortress of Botiala.
also we should invest in Marine archeologies, hundred of ships have been sunk along our coast for thousand of years. Bari was truly shipbreaker bay with unseasonable weather, storms, whirlpools and crags, reefs and shoals, many ships have been sunk over the centuries. the omanis even had a prayer to protect them agains the weather of Northern Somalia .
