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There is great potentiality to this. Because if the ancient quarters of mogadishu and the rest of of the old coastal settlements are buried under sand dunes , we might reclaim a lot of that past and their monuments, if they aren't destroyed before being abandoned that is.
They unearthed basically thousands of year old monuments. tombs and cities under sand in good perservation across Egypt, Sudan, Middle east and Meso-America.
They also discover manuscripts, libraries and textual fragments in the sand as well.
The Mysterious Library Hidden in the Sand
The Enigma of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Libraries in the sand reveal Africa's academic past
Even in Egypt , thanks to the preservation in sand they have a collection of papyrus documents and fragments.
The majority of surviving papyrus documents have either come from the desert areas in Egypt, where many had been buried by sand until they began to be excavated in the late 19th century,
As they add
Sand is also a great preservative, as Egyptologists have found. In fact, there is no knowing what you may find, in the sand grains themselves or in the dunes behind the beach, along a river, or far out in the desert. It is always worth looking.
Lucky for us but that the climate coupled with Sand is good perservation material.
Predicting the preservation of cultural artefacts and buried materials in soil
This study identifies factors affecting the fate of buried objects in soil and develops a method for assessing where preservation of different materia…www.sciencedirect.com
Coastal towns becoming buried under sand dunes is something continues to this day
‘Swallowed by the sand’: Somalia’s coastal towns succumb to the desert
‘Swallowed by the sand’: Somalia’s coastal towns succumb to the desert
As deforestation removes protection from the ferocious winds, compounding damage from climate crisis-driven drought, sand dunes are burying the medieval port of Hobyo. Will pledges to green the desert save communities already displaced by war?www.theguardian.com
Even the tomb of Sultan Ali Yusuf on the coastal town of Hobyo is buried today under sand dunes, i remember seeing Puntlandvault post the current situation, where you can only see the edge barely visible above ground.
When you look at the descriptions by the British Pirate that was captured in Mogadishu in year 1701 on the royal monuments & tomb and the Mujahideen/army tombs it says it is located 2 miles awfay from the Old town , it is more than likely buried deep under sand and not visible to people above ground
I hope the expansion of Mogadishu over the last 2 decades hasn't messed with this. This is one of those things that im worried about
