DISTANT RELATIVES

"The rhythms of Africa which is the root of rythm, thats my favourite music and I think thats the favourite music of the world because all music is derived from that ..I mean africa is music, it is the origin, it is the dawn of existence.. you cant avoid that."

Here one finds reliefs of the Moorish Cavalry of the Roman Army under Lusius Quietus, fighting against the Dacians. It was commissioned by Emperor Trajan. Lusius Quietus was a Roman general and governor of Ludaea(Judea) in 117 AD.

Medium: Marble, “Bigio Morata”

Geographical Locations:

Possible place made: Turkey

Place made: Provenance not known

Dates: late 2nd century B.C.E.

Period: Ptolemaic Period

Old map of Africa. Created by Frederick Herman Moll, published in London, 1710

One of the most decorative Maps of Africa after 1700.

Click on the picture to see it in large and read the text.

This is a map of Africa in 1710 before and whilst Europe was in the process of dismembering African states and reshaping them into the  majority of Artificial states we now know as African Countries.

Notice:

Africans defined their land by their own standards, governed and dictated by themselves.