Showing posts with label Timbuktu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Timbuktu. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Short Attn Span Theater: Black superiority?

Black Beauty & Hair – UK's No. 1 Black magazine 2017

Warrior Queen of Angola Nzinga vs. Portuguese - George Washington's Black valet Wm. Lee
  • African Mansa Musa (died in 1337), Emperor of Mali, the richest man in history and the richest country, a place of wisdom with books and scholarship to rival any European university: ignored and hidden in colonial history

Thursday, June 19, 2025

'2nd hidden city' found 2K ft under Giza



Anunnaki aliens designed these energy centers?
A second city has been uncovered below Egypt's iconic pyramids of Giza, according to Italian archeologists who discovered the massive underground structure.

Located under the Mankaure Pyramid, this colossal find may be able to "prove" how the three Giza pyramids are connected through the potential existence of a massive subterranean complex buried 2,000 feet underground.

Delicate linen survived millennia
This remarkable discovery comes after the team previously found large underground structures below the Khafre Pyramid back in March 2025.

However, this latest research isn't without contention, as some archeologists and Egyptologists, such as [nationalist mouthpiece] Dr. Zahi Hawass, have said these findings, which have not yet been peer-reviewed or published in a scientific journal, are impossible due to a lack of sufficient technology as ground-penetrating radar isn't able to analyze the surface that is thousands of feet deep.

Monday, March 6, 2023

World's 1st university: Buddhist Nalanda (BBC)

BBC Reel, June 10, 2022; BodhisattvaDhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

How the world's oldest university was lost for 800 years (BBC)
(BBC Reel) Founded more than 1,500 years ago, India's ancient Nalanda [Buddhist monastic] University is thought to have been the world's first residential university.

The Buddha-to-be went to college at Taxila
Established more than 500 years before England's Oxford University, at its peak Nalanda hosted over 10,000 students from around the world.

It is considered by historians to be one of the great centers of learning of the ancient world.
  • [Two other perhaps older universities were at Timbuktu, in Islamic Africa, and the school the Bodhisattva ("Buddha-to-be") attended along with Ananda in a previous life, Taxila/Takkasila, the capital of ancient Gandhara (modern Pakistan), which is mentioned in the Jataka Tales.]
Nalanda University was destroyed towards the end of the 12th Century AD. Its legendary library was burned to the ground, and much of its ancient knowledge was lost.

Now, 800 years later, it is being revived for the modern age.

Video by Mithun Pramanik. Commissioned by Dan John. #bbcnews #bbc #india #bbcreel #india #university #indian

Why did Muslims destroy it?

(Bodhisattva) Why Turko-Afghan mass murderer Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji burned down Nalanda Buddhist University and killed all of its resident monk teachers and monastic students: real reasons and firsthand accounts.

Where in the world is Timbuktu?

In its Golden Age, Timbuktu's numerous Islamic scholars and extensive trading network supported an important book trade, together with the campuses of Sankore Madrasa, an Islamic university.

This established Timbuktu as a scholarly center in Africa. Several notable historic writers, such as Shabeni and Leo Africanus, wrote about the city.

These stories fueled speculation in Europe, where the city's reputation shifted from being extremely rich to being mysterious. More

[So white Europeans destroyed it, took its knowledge, then denied it ever existed. This created the joke that "Timbuktu" is synonymous with "Podunk," a faraway or nonexistent place.]

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

History's richest man: Black Emperor Musa

Crystal Q., CC Liu, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wikipedia edit

Black Emperor (Mansā) Mūsā (circa 1312–1337 [a]) was the ninth [3] emperor (mansa) of the Mali Empire, Africa, which reached its territorial peak during this king's reign.

Emperor Musa is known for his unimaginable wealth and has sometimes been called the wealthiest person in history, far richer than Mexico's Carlos Slim, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, or Elon Musk.

His riches came from the mining of gold and salt deposits in the Mali Empire, along with the slave and ivory trade [4, 5]. 

At the time of Musa's ascension to the throne, Mali in large part consisted of the territory of the former Ghana Empire, which Mali had conquered.

The Mali Empire consisted of land that is now part of Guinea, Senegal, Mauritania, The Gambia, and the modern state of Mali.

Musa was so rich that when he went on a Muslim pilgrimage (hajj) to Mecca in 1324, traveling with an enormous entourage and a vast supply of gold, he disrupted economies.

En route, he spent time in Cairo, Egypt, where his lavish gift-giving is said to have noticeably affected the value of gold in Egypt and garnered the attention of the wider Muslim world.

Buddhist Nalanda: World's first university?
Emperor Musa expanded the borders of the Mali Empire, in particular incorporating the cities of Gao and Timbuktu (a great ancient center of learning and hope to possibly the oldest residential university in history, even older than the oldest known university, Buddhist Nalanda (regarded by scholars as the world's first residential university), which Buddhist records say came after a kind of university system in Taxila or Takkasila, Indo-Pakistan, where the Buddha as the Bodhisatta went to school in a past life (Jataka Tales)] into its territory. More

Emperor Musa of Mali is renowned for his wealth and generosity. Online articles in the 21st century have claimed that Mansa Musa was the richest person of all time [89].

This claim is often sourced to an article in CelebrityNetWorth [89], which claims that Musa's wealth was the equivalent of US $400 billion [90].

CelebrityNetWorth has been criticized for the unreliability of its estimates [91].

Historians such as Hadrien Collet have argued that Emperor Musa's wealth is impossible to accurately calculate [89, 85].

Contemporary Arabic sources may have been trying to express that Emperor Musa had more gold than they thought possible, rather than trying to give an exact number [92].

Furthermore, it is difficult to meaningfully compare the wealth of historical figures such as Mansa Musa, due to the difficulty of separating the personal wealth of a monarch from the wealth of the state and the difficulty of comparing wealth in highly different societies [93].

Emperor Musa may have brought as much as 18 tons of gold on his pilgrimage to Mecca [94], the center of Islam, equal in value to over US $957 million in 2022 [95].

Emperor Musa himself further promoted the appearance of having vast, inexhaustible wealth by spreading rumors that gold grew like a plant in his kingdom [96].

According to some Arabic writers, Emperor Musa's gift-giving caused a depreciation in the value of gold in Egypt.

Al-Umari said that, before Emperor Musa's arrival, a mithqal of gold was worth 25 silver dirhams, but that it dropped to less than 22 dirhams afterward and did not go above that number for at least 12 years [97].

Though this has been described as having "wrecked" Egypt's economy [85], the historian Warren Schultz has argued that this was well within normal fluctuations in the value of gold in Mamluk Egypt [98]. More

Sunday, June 28, 2020

Math sucks. Math-racism sucks even more

The Frustrated Indian; Maths with Lisa; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly


The Story of Calculus: How Europeans claimed credit for a subject that India invented
Math is a religion! (Calvin & Hobbes)
If humans discovered calculus, they were from India and many were Muslim. [More likely, these sophisticated forms of calculation were handed down from the akasha deva loka, extraterrestrial worlds with technologically advanced beings from space.]

Sadly, due to his heavy and hard to decipher accent, the Frustrated Indian is unlikely to convince many Occidentals, Europeans, or Caucasians and zero racists. But there is much evidence that what he is saying is exactly true. And he offers references at the end of the video.
Is Lisa a racist or just teaching what she learned in British history class?


The [Eurocentric] History of Calculus: A Short Documentary, Newton and Leibniz
The House of Wisdom
What is the discover and history of calculus (the language of change and motion) and the great European mathematicians behind its unique discovery [except for its previous discovery in India and appropriated by colonial British and European invaders].

Who discovered it, how and why? What is it used for? What is the infinitesimal, the derivative, the limit? What are the inverse operations of integration and differentiation?

Get the European version of its discovery. The maths (the British way of saying mathematics) behind integral and differential calculus do not jump from Ancient Greek calculations to European to British/English maths of the 17th century. Was it Eudoxus, Archimedes, Cavalieri, Newton, and Leibniz or great mathematicians who used to get credit but were erased and replaced by a make believe racist history that abrogates to itself all useful discoveries as Eurocentric white supremacy?

Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Sahara desert was lush and green (video)

Jimmy (Bright Insight, Aug. 27, 2019); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly


What’s buried under the Sahara? Hidden lost ancient civilizations!
The Sahara, the world’s largest hot desert (non-polar), hides countless lost ruins and unknown civilizations. Mysterious peoples and their territories have long since been forgotten, having been consumed and covered over by the sands thousands of years ago. When it is said “thousands of years ago,” things start to get very strange. Egypt is far older than modern archeologists are willing to admit. Forbidden archeology shows the evidence -- such as water erosion marks on the Sphinx and pyramids -- proving the antiquity of the monuments that were not built by earthlings alone.

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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

In a land far, far away

The most remote spot on Earth?
It's become a small world after all. The most remote inhabited place on the planet? It's an island so out of the way it only gets mail once a year by slow moving freighter.

In Search of Nirvana on Earth
  • On the way to Mandalay
  • Was there ever a Shangri La?
  • Boondocks vs. Peoria
  • Nirvana (Pali, nibbana)
  • The world's most remote inhabited island (James P. Blair/Nat'l Geo/Getty Images).