The theory, of which Allah SWT destroyed Somali civilization and Somali nomads were the ones who survived from it, is plausible cause there is no explanation for it.
Ancients Artifacts Has Been Found In Cerigabo And A Roman Coin
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Dhulbahante
Archaeology in Somalia is minuscule compared to even the rest of Africa let alone the world. Modern technology like laser scanning would reveal the true size of ancient sites, how old they are and how they connect to medieval and modern cities in terms of continuity. Chittick in the 1970s stopped at the 12th century for Mogadishu as a foundation date and did not go deeper despite there being layers below. Another major source for future information on the past would be to investigate more inland and more beyond the coastal cities and beaches, because the original ancient coastline from thousands of years ago is now under water, so if that was the staging point for trade and life, then you would have to go into the water to reveal the past, which is how they found ancient port cities in Greece and India.
Script displacement is also not a new phenomena unique to Somalia, the same happened with Sudan and the Meroitic Script or Greece and the Minoan Script. The Makurians and Alodians of Sudan adopted Greek and Coptic for their literature because of their new Christian faith, the Greeks adopted and eventually adapted the Phoenician Script into a new one after doing trade with the latter and lost the Minoan Script. In Somalia's case, the introduction of Islam and the shift to using the Arabic Script no doubt was the reason why older forms of writing like Sabaic and a undeciphered script went into discontinuation because that's exactly what happened across the Red Sea in Yemen too.
If in the case of Somalia, these scripts were only used for commercial transactions and religious activities, then their eventual death make sense because in the majority of the world the literate class throughout history was less than 5% (except Dynastic China and the later Islamic caliphates) and if that same class converted to a new religion with a very strong and established script and whose continues existence is fully powered by a forever relevant book like the Quran, the older scripts would eventually phase out and die.
There are very few examples where the switch to (or the presence of) a new dominant religion or empire was accompanied by the continues use of an older script, and this mainly happened in mountainous and isolated kingdoms like Armenia and Abyssinia or close-knit communities like the Jews. In the rest of the world, the presence of a new dominant religion or empire saw the end of older religions and scripts, which is what happened in Ancient Egypt, Persia, Babylon, Meso-America, etc which today outside of tourism have little to no connection with their modern descendants.
What is interesting about the Somalia example is that no ancient superpower ruled us with an iron fist, no ancient army subdued us and no ancient super religion was forced upon us despite having had contact with all of the major empires of the time and being in close proximity to influential ancient religions. This can only mean that at some point, not yet identified, one dominant Somali group with a new technological or moral high ground (usually religion) advantage displaced another previously dominant Somali group and eventually forced them to the peripheries of society to the point where their knowledge and expertise eventually died with them. This wouldn't be the first time that a major influential group or culture in the Horn went extinct, the Harla, the Maya and other groups are fine examples.
The death of the Roman Empire also had a profound effect on merchants in Somalia between the 5th and 8th centuries, during those 300 years there is a huge blind spot in terms of records and trade activities, and that again makes sense because merchants from Somalia made their profits from frankincense, myrrh and cinnamon and the major empire that used to import those items in vast quantities was overrun by Germanic tribes, so that specific period of 300 years is most likely where the religious shift happened that affected the dynamics of Somali religious thinking, cultural traditions and what was considered from then on noble in terms of occupational jobs.
Also Greater Somalia even just two centuries ago had a population of only 1 to 2 million people, so if we go back 1300 years earlier, the population was probably around the 200 thousand people if not less, dispersed across a vast landmass but one that was well connected through trade and family ties, which is why in the span of a couple centuries a few dozen known Sheikhs proselytizing a new religion could result in 99% of the Somali people being Muslim today.
Reconstructing Somali History century by century could be easily achieved through a combination of disciplines, but unfortunately the lack of access for archaeologists, the lack of clan-neutral historians, the lack of initiatives to collect native manuscripts and the lack of funding for equipment, staff and projects over the last 50+ years has inhibited any progress on that front.
That's a major advantage other countries have on Somalia, their histories are slowly being illuminated, while ours remains in the dark.
Cush
Cushite Arab
Yes perhaps they were destroyed and us Adnaani Arabs took over since we amtch them, the Somali people are 2600 years old, Punt is 4k years old, our population is only 20 million, it should be 300 million if we're that ancient
NordicSomali
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Is there a news article about this instead of twitter posts?
Cush
Cushite Arab
Are you averoes uchiha
Garaad Awal
War is coming.
It's a Gadhweyn HY city....
NordicSomali
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