Those who are interested in ancient history have come across ancient maps where northern Africa, now the Sahara Desert, is shown as a blooming land with a large number of cities (even within the continent) and deep rivers that do not exist today.
All medieval old maps do not show a desert at all. The region has been explored and many cities have been identified along the coasts and inland. If we compare the old maps made before the beginning of the 18th century, the impression is that the region is quite famous for European cartographers. Although, scientists argue that these territories turned into a desert thousands of years ago and the maps, according to logic, are erroneous or fake. They draw this conclusion for one reason: for them history is linear, there is no place for global catastrophes when entire continents perished.
Pay attention to the Niger river. On the old map, it flows much farther west and flows into the Atlantic Ocean on the western shores of the Sahara. Its source is in the center of the Sahara. And at present, its source has moved to the Futa Jalon plateau almost at the Atlantic and flows into the Gulf of Guinea. Ancient cartographers could not be so wrong.
My opinion is that in the Middle Ages Africa, and in particular, its northern region, the Sahara experienced a geotectonic catastrophe that reformatted the entire continent. This, incidentally, applies to all other continents to varying degrees. I think where we now see traces of ancient cultures - these regions have suffered the least. There are many things that could survive. The rest were erased by processes that were similar to our understanding of the Flood. We do not know exactly the reason for this (there are only hypotheses), but we can observe the pictures of the consequences.
In science there is evidence of large-scale extinctions of animals. This happened several times. There is data on the five most massive:
I am very skeptical about dating and geochronology in modern science. For example, I believe that there was no Carboniferous period on Earth. And the deposits of coal themselves are the consequences of those very disasters. This is supported by facts and evidence in numbers.
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But if you do not touch on the dating, then it becomes clear that large-scale catastrophes have happened on Earth. For me, it is possible that in historical times.
But back to the Sahara. Apparently, the catastrophe that happened in Africa was not only global flooding and water flows. These were volcanic eruptions, mountain building and outcrops of various fluidoliths with water, clay, sand, etc. We will now talk about these traces on the territory of the Sahara, as the consequences of the past catastrophe.
One of the readers shared a link to interesting sites in the Sahara.
He said that he has links to google maps to objects with an unusual groove-like structure, resembling a wall. They are located in the center of the Sahara Desert in Mali:
There is another "wall" to the south:
The "Wall" stretches for many kilometers
On a cursory examination, the following versions appear:
- a buried aqueduct or some kind of wall from the time when there was no desert, but there were cities.
- a fault through which mud masses squeezed out, which were petrified.
There are places where from the main rectilinear structure there are "branches" perpendicular to it:
Could a crustal fault be so straightforward?
Another place with the intersection of the "walls":
There are already doubts about aqueducts and some kind of artificial walls.
Here is a whole grid of smaller * walls *.
In my opinion, these walls look exactly like faults and outcrops of plastic rocks with subsequent petrification. Magma would spread over the territory. Although, about the mechanism of the formation of walls - will be below.
There are also small extinct volcanoes on this territory, which speak of powerful lithospheric activity sometime in the past:
The fact that these are just faults is indicated by the volcano located on the "wall".
It turns out that such "walls" are not the only place on Earth. A similar object is found in North America: Winged Rock. New Mexico.
The fault pattern is very similar to space images of places in the Sahara.
I think this wall was formed like this. A fault (a network of faults) took place in the earth's crust, which were filled with fluidolites. A dike formed. It did not have to be filled with magma.
Possibly cold, mineral tuffs. The rocks were petrified. This was followed by the second stage of geotectonic activity with pushing out, raising of these "walls" above the surface.
Also volcanoes and mud volcanoes were formed in places with outlets of a huge volume of water, mud and sand. This assumption is confirmed by the information below.
I have never heard information about volcanoes, even if they are extinct in the Sahara Desert. They are located in the east of the continent, where a global rift runs across the entire continent from north to south. But what would be on the plains of the desert, in supposedly geologically calm places?
In addition to these "walls" and nearby small extinct volcanoes located next to them, there are huge craters in the Sahara in terms of volume and depth:
These are not lunar or Martian landscapes - this is the Sahara.
They are located in the Republic of Niger, also in the Sahara, but east of the "walls" shown above. Their diameters are huge - more than 1 km.
The diameter of the crater in the lower right picture is more than 7 km. It doesn't look like these are volcanoes. The breed is not dark in color. And some do not have a cone above the ground, i.e. he did not throw out magma and ash. I think that water-mud masses with sand came out of these craters, which washed it up, forming a desert. It was this catastrophe, the traces of which we see in these objects, and erased the entire medieval civilization and culture of the Sahara. Only a small number of Africans survived. I think the Berbers, the Amazahs, who went to the mountains in northwestern Africa, were also lucky. This is the white population of Africa, whose culture in clothing and ornaments is very similar to the ancient Slavic patterns. But this is a separate interesting topic.
There are similar craters on the Arabian Peninsula.
Some will ask: if this happened due to the release of water along with clay, sand, then where is so much water in the depths? Answer: Scientists have established that there are seas of fresh water under the desert, and possibly underground oceans. During the reign of M. Kadaafi, several huge underground lakes were found in Libya and water was extracted from there, setting up oases and supplying water to cities through water pipelines. There is a lot of water under the Sahara.
What conclusion can be drawn? It is possible that cultures existed in the then blooming Sahara and the old maps do not lie. A catastrophe occurred, which led to a surge in geotectonic activity in all possible ways, and it was a catastrophe in the recent past that led to the appearance of these Martian landscapes in the Sahara.
