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Cape Verde: Traces of Civilizations That Shouldn't Be Here

 

Cape Verde is usually described in one line: ten volcanic islands in the middle of the Atlantic, which Portugal discovered and settled in the fifteenth century, because before it there was not a soul there. Nice, smooth version. The problem is that the islands themselves do not agree with it. There are signs carved on the rocks of San Nicolau and Santo Antana that not a single specialist has read. Pliny the Elder and Ptolemy described these islands one and a half thousand years before the caravels, under the name Gorgada, and it was from here, through the story of the Carthaginian Hanno, that the word “gorilla” came into our language. In the Pedra de Lume salt crater, a person lies on the water, as in the Dead Sea. In the mouth of an active volcano, people are rebuilding a village on top of the lava that has just destroyed their homes. And in the abandoned bay of Ribeira Grande, the first European city in the tropics, an entire people with their own language was born out of someone else’s pain. Six finds that together ask one question: were these islands ever truly empty? We sort it out calmly, with dates, names and an honest note of where is a solid fact and where is a guess.

 

Topics in this issue:

 

• 🧂 Pedra de Lume salt crater and those who came for salt before Portugal
• 🪨 Undeciphered inscriptions of San Nicolau and Santo Antana
• 🏛️ Gorgadas of Pliny and Ptolemy: islands known to antiquity
• ✡️ Jewish tombstones and Synagogue village
• 🌋 Sha das Caldeiras: a village inside an active volcano
• ⚓ Ribeira Grande: the first colonial city of the tropics and the birth of the Creole people

Sources I used to create this video:

1. Pliny the Elder. Natural History (Naturalis Historia), book six (about the Gorgades and the voyage of Hanno), about the seventy-seventh year of our era.

2. Pomponius Mela. On the Position of the Earth (De Chorographia), first century AD.

3. Claudius Ptolemy. Geography (Geographia), about one hundred and fifty AD.

4. Savage T. S., Wyman J. Notice of the external characters and habits of Troglodytes gorilla. Boston Journal of Natural History, 1847 (first use of the word "gorilla").

5. UNESCO, World Heritage Center. Nomination dossier and decision to include “Cidade Velha, Historic Center of Ribeira Grande”, two thousand and nine.

6. Carreira A. Cabo Verde: Formação e Extinção de uma Sociedade Escravocrata (1460–1878). One thousand nine hundred and seventy-two.

7. Mark P., Horta J. da Silva. The Forgotten Diaspora: Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World. Cambridge University Press, two thousand and eleven.

8. Lobban R. A. Cape Verde: Crioulo Colony to Independent Nation. Westview Press, nineteen ninety-five.

 

 

The issue was created for educational and educational purposes. Some of the versions given (pre-Romanesque visits, the authorship of rock inscriptions, the identification of the ancient Gorgadas with Cape Verde) are controversial and are not an established scientific truth, about which direct reservations are made in the text. All objects, dates and names are real and verifiable from open sources.

 

 

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What Do the Sky Caves Hide?

 

In the Himalayan mountains lies a place that defies all logic: more than 10,000 caves carved into enormous cliffs, many interconnected and surrounded by fortresses whose age is still debated. Who built this extraordinary complex, and for what purpose? In this report, we explore the Sky Caves of Mustang, Tibetan legends, known archaeological findings, and the hypotheses that attempt to explain this enigma. Are they merely ancient monasteries and shelters, or the remnants of a civilization that vanished after a great cataclysm? We analyze the evidence, local traditions, and the questions that remain unanswered. In the end, perhaps the greatest mystery isn't what happened in Mustang... but why this place continues to raise so many questions among those who study it.

 

 

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