Princess Meritaten






African Door

African Door


Ancient Waterfront Structure

Waterfront Structure


Ancient Manicure

Ancient Manicure


Lifesize Black Granite of Queen Tiye

Cairo Museum, Egypt

Lifesize Queen Tiye


Shrine Head
Ife people, Yoruba
Terracotta

Terracotta Shrine Head


Map of Ancient Yorubaland

Yorubaland Map


Ife (from ca. 350 B.C.) Pre Pavement and Pavement Era

Intricate Pavement


Wood stool decorated with beads. Metta, Cameroon

African Stool


Great Zimbabwe was founded and built by the Shona Tribe. It stretched for 500 miles and was ages ahead of its time. The Shona Tribe worshipped the God, Mwari and is widely understood to be a completely African tribe, having had no influences from cultures outside of the continent. This, and all the images of the Great Zimbabwe you'll find at various links throughout this exhibit are very significant. As Dr. Henry Louis Gates has pointed out, the ruins of the Great Zimbabwe civilization had long been challenged as having been built by ANYBODY except the Africans who built it and lived there. They were built with great intricacy and obvious understanding of advanced principles in engineering.

Europeans, claiming disbelief that Black Africans could have built this wonderous place, stole from its treasures, destroyed its remnants and much of its architecture, and as such the history of a creative, brilliant African society was almost completely destroyed by the Europeans.

(Much of this writing is from from Scot Pittman's text at http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/History/Africa/03/Spittman/Spittman.htm

Entrance at Great Zimbabwe


Corridor at Great Zimbabwe

Corridor at Great Zimbabwe



Look at this African couch from ancient Africa at galerie-herrmann.com.

Ancient African Lounge



Scholars Undo the "Whitening of Egypt"

Scholars Undo the "Whitening of Egypt."