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TheMightyNomad wrote: well most excavatiion has been taken place in waqoyi galbeed! so if they dig around in puntland im sure they will find additional few artifacts!
But could prove to be interesting movie to renact to life of the puntites!

Personally i would make comic much like the avatar the last airbender somali version! i think somali history & culture has so much uniquness to it that i could be entertaining to put in movies & cartoons like the chinese and japanese do! we could rather capitalize on it!

Ancient Puntite artifacts are also found in Puntland sxb.

Read the book The Mystery of the Land of Punt Unravelled by Ahmed Ibrahim Awale. He is the gentleman that led the recent archaeological excavations in Gol Waraabe, and he explains therein that Punt occupied all of the northern Somali territory:

"So far although the Puntite artifacts require a thorough investigation and proper archaeological excavations, yet they are enough to prove and mark the Land of Punt on the present day Somaliland and Puntland region of Somalia."

Remember, Somalis were at the time all based in the north; none had migrated south yet. Konfuurta was instead inhabited by another Cushitic group known as the Azanians. Other archaeological excavations in the Merca area has yielded the artifact below. It dates to the 6th century, and shows a fine-featured, jileec, tall, beautifully attired and bejeweled Azanian maiden carrying water:

Bilis wrote:

TheMightyNomad wrote: well most excavatiion has been taken place in waqoyi galbeed! so if they dig around in puntland im sure they will find additional few artifacts!
But could prove to be interesting movie to renact to life of the puntites!

Personally i would make comic much like the avatar the last airbender somali version! i think somali history & culture has so much uniquness to it that i could be entertaining to put in movies & cartoons like the chinese and japanese do! we could rather capitalize on it!

Ancient Puntite artifacts are also found in Puntland sxb.

Read the book The Mystery of the Land of Punt Unravelled by Ahmed Ibrahim Awale. He is the gentleman that led the recent archaeological excavations in Gol Waraabe, and he explains therein that Punt occupied all of the northern Somali territory:

"So far although the Puntite artifacts require a thorough investigation and proper archaeological excavations, yet they are enough to prove and mark the Land of Punt on the present day Somaliland and Puntland region of Somalia."

Remember, Somalis were at the time all based in the north; none had migrated south yet. Konfuurta was instead inhabited by another Cushitic group known as the Azanians. Other archaeological excavations in the Merca area has yielded the artifact below. It dates to the 6th century, and shows a fine-featured, jileec, tall, beautifully attired and bejeweled Azanian maiden carrying water:

No somalis were not at all time based up north. The ancient greeks reffered to the people in mogadishu/ Sarapion as berbers. So that is pretty much a somali as the garre somalis were the first ones to settle in mogadishu!

But puntland is still northern somalia so that is why it think they will find even more puntite artifacts.



There is no evidence of anyone prior to somalis inhabiting south somalia. South somalia was largely uninhabited before somalis expanded & migrated south!

That is most likely a carving of a somali girl!

Jalaluddin your obsession with darood is getting petty by now.

Wait till Ramadan is over and I will unleash the dragon on your petty ass!

TheMightyNomad wrote: No somalis were not at all time based up north. The ancient greeks reffered to the people in mogadishu/ Sarapion as berbers. So that is pretty much a somali as the garre somalis were the first ones to settle in mogadishu!

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There is no evidence of anyone prior to somalis inhabiting south somalia. South somalia was largely uninhabited before somalis expanded & migrated south!

That is most likely a carving of a somali girl!

We're actually saying the same thing sxb. She is a Somali maiden in the sense that the Azanians were ancestral to the Rahanweyn, Garre etc. That is why they speak separate but closely related Cushitic languages to Somali, such as Maay, Tuuni and Jiddo.

When I wrote that Somalis didn't yet migrate south, I meant the other major clans.

The Periplus describes the ancient Azanians thusly:

"Rhapta is described as a place inhabited by big-bodied men. Many authorities remark that there is no specific mention of negroid people in the Periplus or of any distinction between the fair-skinned people of the Somali coast and the dark-skinned people south of the Juba. The implication is that Bantu-speaking people had not at this stage moved north of Rhapta. The phrase 'big-bodied' has also been taken to refer to Cushitic-speaking people (there are survivals of Cushitic languages in East Africa)."

The travelogue's translation from the original Greek can be read here.

TheMightyNomad wrote:But puntland is still northern somalia so that is why it think they will find even more puntite artifacts.

Yes, there is undoubtedly many other Puntite artifacts that will be discovered once major excavations are launched. Probably even entire monuments if they dig deep enough.

The funny part is, they found those particular Puntite statuettes and implements only one meter below ground, and in the very first spot that they excavated. Ahmed indicates that they were able to efficiently pinpoint a suitable digging location thanks to the help of a young Sufi gentleman, who had some weird contact with duule kale.

By the way, check out this interesting exchange between Ahmed and some gaalo dude. The other guy insinuates that the Land of Punt was in Eritrea, northern Ethiopia and Somaliland only, and Ahmed (writing as Dirkii Sacmaallada) sets the record straight by pointing out that actual Puntite artifacts have so far only been found in northern Somalia as a whole so the territory was likely centered there, though it probably also included Eritrea and northern Ethiopia ("In the light of the above, I totally disagree with the author of the article for denying Puntland as being part of the mysterious Land of Punt").

I think it punt was mainly djibouti and somalia not eritrea or ethiopia.

Cuz like ahmed pointed out northern somalia is called Waqoyi which means land of the gods . Waq is an ancient somali cushite god.
there is also a city in northern somalia called boon which explains to be the real somali version of the word punt.

inshallah i will look forward to the artifacts being explored on somali soil. Add me on that forum so we could discuss this further.