Tag: Africa
Sungbo’s Eredo – The “Queen of Sheba’s Embankment”
Sungbo’s Eredo is one of the largest man-made monuments in Africa, consisting of a giant system of ditches and embankments that surrounds the entire ljebu Kingdom in the rain forests of south-western Nigeria.
African diamond mine reveals dinosaur and large mammal tracks
In a surprise turn of events, one of the largest diamond mines in Africa, Catoca in Angola, contains 118 million year old dinosaur, crocodile and large mammal tracks. The mammal tracks show a raccoon-sized animal, during a time when most were no bigger than today’s rats.
The Age of the Sahara desert
A team of scientists from Norway, France and China revise the view that the Sahara desert has existed for only the last 2-3million years.