PUNT IS SOMALIA
Ancient Somalia
There are many foreigners who try to discredit the Somalis in every page of the history book, whether it be our City states of Antiquity or Medieval Islamic dynasties.
So i will dedicate this section to describe the civilisation of ancient Somalis and their numerous and wealthy cities in antiquity. This will be very important as many try to claim Punt as Northern Abyssinia/Eritrea or especially Yemen purely off the notion that Somalis simply couldn't have created such things.
>>>Somalis were known to the Arabs, particularly the Yemenis and Omanis are Bilaad al-Berber/Land of Berbers, whom we traded heavily with in Pre Islamic times.
This source also talks to us about Somali trade reaching as far as China.
Source: Historical Dictionary of Somalia
By Mohamed Haji Mukhtar
Ancient Somali city states
TEMPLE IN THE NORTHERN SOMALI COAST
>>>> "It is apparently the ruin of a building whose plan is not not recognizable. As the inscriptions commemorate religious ceremonies, it is either a simple sacred enclosure in which religious objects such as incense burners or inscriptions were deposited either from a real temple comprising a covered room."
This post could certainly not resume everything on this complex matter, I will certainly make a thread on it soon, the book below isnt in English, but thankfully I do speak french. Basically some Somalis discovered an ancient temple on the northern coast and alerted some scholars, the structure is apparently an ancient temple which could have been possibly built by Sabeans as inscriptions mentionning a Sabean king whose name is Karibʾīl Watār, son of Dhamarʿalī . He can be dated at around 650 BC, the map you see above was made by an explorer who apparently saw the temple in better condition years prior. Whats interesting is that Strabo the ancient geographer, talked about proto-somalis having temples like this.
Source:
DES SABÉENS DANS LA CORNE DE L’AFRIQUE (SOMALIE DU NORD) VERS LES VIIIe -VIIe SIÈCLES AV. L’ÈRE CHRÉTIENNE PAR M. CHRISTIAN JULIEN ROBIN, MEMBRE DE L’ACADÉMIE, Mme ALESSIA PRIOLETTA, M. JÉRÉMIE SCHIETTECATTE, Mme IWONA GAJDA ET M. KHALDŪN HAZZĀʿ NUʿMĀN
ARCHEOLOGY OF ANCIENT OPONE
"This higher stand seems to have cut away much of a small complex of stone-footed constructions, probably several rooms facing a walled courtyard... Each revealed a complex stratigraphy of sand layers, ash lenses and oven features from about 1.5 to 2.5 m deep... Only about 30 sq. m of the site were excavated, about 0.025 percent, and it is likely that future work will reveal much, perhaps even evidence of buildings in the lower layers."
Excavations were undertaken in 1976 on two ancient sites at Ras Hafun both discovered by Neville Chittick, the two sites have been called Hafun West Site and Hafun Main Site which are dated back to the Mycenaean Kingdom of Greece that flourished between the 16th and 11th century BC according to the artifacts found there, it is also believed to be the location of the ancient emporium of Opone.
The site described is given a more exact dat2 (1400-1100BCE) by Chittick, Neville (1975). An Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Horn: The British-Somali Expedition. pp. 117–133.
Source:
The Ceramics from Ras Hafun in Somalia 1988, Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa - Henry T Wright
Galen who was the surgeon for the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius talks about cinnamon from Somalia and it’s health benefits
Ancient Somalia
There are many foreigners who try to discredit the Somalis in every page of the history book, whether it be our City states of Antiquity or Medieval Islamic dynasties.
So i will dedicate this section to describe the civilisation of ancient Somalis and their numerous and wealthy cities in antiquity. This will be very important as many try to claim Punt as Northern Abyssinia/Eritrea or especially Yemen purely off the notion that Somalis simply couldn't have created such things.
>>>Somalis were known to the Arabs, particularly the Yemenis and Omanis are Bilaad al-Berber/Land of Berbers, whom we traded heavily with in Pre Islamic times.
This source also talks to us about Somali trade reaching as far as China.
Source: Historical Dictionary of Somalia
By Mohamed Haji Mukhtar
Ancient Somali city states
TEMPLE IN THE NORTHERN SOMALI COAST
>>>> "It is apparently the ruin of a building whose plan is not not recognizable. As the inscriptions commemorate religious ceremonies, it is either a simple sacred enclosure in which religious objects such as incense burners or inscriptions were deposited either from a real temple comprising a covered room."
This post could certainly not resume everything on this complex matter, I will certainly make a thread on it soon, the book below isnt in English, but thankfully I do speak french. Basically some Somalis discovered an ancient temple on the northern coast and alerted some scholars, the structure is apparently an ancient temple which could have been possibly built by Sabeans as inscriptions mentionning a Sabean king whose name is Karibʾīl Watār, son of Dhamarʿalī . He can be dated at around 650 BC, the map you see above was made by an explorer who apparently saw the temple in better condition years prior. Whats interesting is that Strabo the ancient geographer, talked about proto-somalis having temples like this.
Source:
DES SABÉENS DANS LA CORNE DE L’AFRIQUE (SOMALIE DU NORD) VERS LES VIIIe -VIIe SIÈCLES AV. L’ÈRE CHRÉTIENNE PAR M. CHRISTIAN JULIEN ROBIN, MEMBRE DE L’ACADÉMIE, Mme ALESSIA PRIOLETTA, M. JÉRÉMIE SCHIETTECATTE, Mme IWONA GAJDA ET M. KHALDŪN HAZZĀʿ NUʿMĀN
ARCHEOLOGY OF ANCIENT OPONE
"This higher stand seems to have cut away much of a small complex of stone-footed constructions, probably several rooms facing a walled courtyard... Each revealed a complex stratigraphy of sand layers, ash lenses and oven features from about 1.5 to 2.5 m deep... Only about 30 sq. m of the site were excavated, about 0.025 percent, and it is likely that future work will reveal much, perhaps even evidence of buildings in the lower layers."
Excavations were undertaken in 1976 on two ancient sites at Ras Hafun both discovered by Neville Chittick, the two sites have been called Hafun West Site and Hafun Main Site which are dated back to the Mycenaean Kingdom of Greece that flourished between the 16th and 11th century BC according to the artifacts found there, it is also believed to be the location of the ancient emporium of Opone.
The site described is given a more exact dat2 (1400-1100BCE) by Chittick, Neville (1975). An Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Horn: The British-Somali Expedition. pp. 117–133.
Source:
The Ceramics from Ras Hafun in Somalia 1988, Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa - Henry T Wright
Galen who was the surgeon for the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius talks about cinnamon from Somalia and it’s health benefits
