Roman Artefacts found in Puntland

[Riftvalley]

He says he met Wagner Mecenaries lol.

 

[Midas]

There are probaly countless artifact in somalia just waiting for us to discover we can probaly fill a dozen museums with the stuff well discover. I'm just waiting for us to stumble on some ancient manuscripts.

 

[JamalFarah]

Wagner mercenaries in Puntland sounds far-fetched. We know that the US has supported the offensives with airstrikes, so there is no way Wagner mercenaries would be allowed.

No doubt there are artifacts throughout Somalia, and we do know that some cities in Somalia have been continuously inhabited for millennia. Some of the oldest references from the outside about Somalia comes from Rome and we do know that some of the city states they described lay in PL.

 

[Riftvalley]

Wagner mercenaries in Puntland sounds far-fetched. We know that the US has supported the offensives with airstrikes, so there is no way Wagner mercenaries would be allowed.

No doubt there are artifacts throughout Somalia, and we do know that some cities in Somalia have been continuously inhabited for millennia. Some of the oldest references from the outside about Somalia comes from Rome and we do know that some of the city states they described lay in PL.

Yeah I thought it was a strange comment. Perhaps it could have been some Wagner on route to Sudan or something sponsored by UAE.

PL coast is important for Somali history.

 

[Rayaale]

Kind of backhanded description, what Wagner is in Somalia

 

[Riftvalley]

There are probaly countless artifact in somalia just waiting for us to discover we can probaly fill a dozen museums with the stuff well discover. I'm just waiting for us to stumble on some ancient manuscripts.

I think it was you or someone else who once mentioned how were the ancient Somali traders communicating with foreign visitors.

Surely there had to some literate men in Greek, Roman, AE, old Arabic etc. There must some clues beneath the land.

 

[Rayaale]

I think it was you or someone else who once mentioned how were the ancient Somali traders communicating with foreign visitors.

Surely there had to some literate men in Greek, Roman, AE, old Arabic etc. There must some clues beneath the land.

We used to resell spices to them

 

[Midas]

I think it was you or someone else who once mentioned how ancient Somali traders communicating with foreign visitors.

Surely there had to some literate men in Greek, Roman, AE, old Arabic etc. There must some clues beneath the land.

Definitely. Especially with the dry environment we live in and the pre islamic burial practices of somalis. We've also got hints of there being a more complex local traditions in somalia. Some of them being the statuses people have dug up as well as the existence of a preislamic somali calendar mentioned on one of the inscriptions from Mogadishu.


The way I see it there were social institutions that existed in the preislamic period that collapsed when we became Muslim and whatever traditions/practices they were doing were lost with the destruction of those social institutions. One of those being sculptures.

 

[Riftvalley]

Definitely. Especially with the dry environment we live in and the pre islamic burial practices of somalis. We've also got hints of there being a more complex local traditions in somalia. Some of them being the statuses people have dug up as well as the existence of a preislamic somali calendar mentioned on one of the inscriptions from Mogadishu.


The way I see it there were social institutions that existed in the preislamic period that collapsed when we became Muslim and whatever traditions/practices they were doing were lost with the destruction of those social institutions. One of those being sculptures.

I wouldn’t really say collapse. Many traditions and practices dating back to pre Islamic period were still being used until recently. Good example is how the lunar mansions and astrology was used in tandem with wadaads and herbal medicine experts.

Institutions, probably.

 

[Midas]

I wouldn’t really say collapse. Many traditions and practices dating back to pre Islamic period were still being used until recently. Good example is how the lunar mansions and astrology was used in tandem with wadaads and herbal medicine experts.

Institutions, probably.

Of course I think our environment and economic system remaining essentially unchanged meant a lot of these practices didn't die out. But there undoubtedly must have been some native somali written tradition and that's gone now. There was also people could make statues in somalia and that knwoldge is gone as well.

I suspect even within the islamic period after the collapse of the sultante a couple hundred years back a lot of the skilled craftsman and other professions died out since the economic system and towns that supported them collapsed.

 

[AbrahamFreedom]

Those and others discovered need to be taken overseas. Someone will steal or damage them or have them sold in Dubai if they are not confiscated.

 

[crem]

Wagner??