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Abandoned Castle Photography by Martino Zegwaard 

Martino Zegwaard’s recent photography series Castello di S explores the beauty of abandoned castles and their majestic architecture. He has kept the locations of the heavily ornated buildings anonymous to heighten the mystery and luxury of each design. Although the rooms are empty, the sculpted ceilings, arches, opulent rooms and stunning mosaic designs reveal an obvious magnificence and luxury through architecture alone. 

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Amazigh

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Muslim children in Bulgaria. Early 1900’s

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Beautiful minaret in Kashgar ,Xinjiang

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Africa love

Alkebulan  The ancient name of Africa was Alkebulan. Alkebu-lan “mother of mankind” or “garden of eden”. Alkebulan is the oldest and the only word of indigenous origin.

#staywoke

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for my fallow Berbers(i really hate this word, we prefer Amazighe) the black's and the white's lets make hour history remember able lets not turn hour back to hour history lets face it. say no to Afrocentrism no eurocentrism.   

Today we celebrate the feast of St.Moses the black of Scete. Monk, Priest, and desert father martyred by the Berbers.

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the best feels ever with tea.

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how cute

Tamazigh from Morocco

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Amazigh girls from the Atlas , Morocco

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north african women

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THE SURVIVORS OF ATLANTIS

Generally, modern Cro-Magnon people can be found in certain parts of Western Europe, North Africa and some of the Atlantic Islands today. Physical anthropologists agree that Cro-Magnon is represented in modern times by the Berber and Tuareg peoples of North Africa, the all but extinct Guanches of the Canary Isles, the Basques of northern Spain, the Aquitanians living in the Dordogne Valley and the Bretons of Brittany; and until lately, those living on the Isle d'Oleron. (Howells, 1967; Lundman, 1977; Hiernaux, 1975, et al.)—this indicated by obviously Cro-Magnoid skulls.

Except for some shrinkage of areas, this is the same distribution pattern for Cro-Magnon as existed in Upper Paleolithic times. Many of these same peoples are distinguished in calling themselves by names using the suffix "tani," from the Mauritani of North Africa to the Bretani of Brittany, France and the British Isles (Martins, 1930). (For the latest theory of the origin of the Bretons clickHere.)

The Berber people call themselves Amazigh: Berber is a name that has been given them by others and which they themselves do not use. Their often dark appearance is caused by the sun: they are ethnologically and genetically White. Ethnologically, the Tuaregs of North Africa (the so-called "Blue People of the Sahara") are Berbers who speak an ancient dialect of Berber called Tamachek. Genetically light-skin and blue-eyes prevail. With their aquiline noses, high cheekbones (often with blonde or reddish hair), they are said to resemble their alleged Atlantean ancestors—many individuals are over six feet tall. When questioned, they do not hesitate to name Atlantis as their lost homeland.

Back in the early 1980s an investigative journalist, Ken Krippene, travelled to Marrakech, Morocco, to search out tribal leaders and speak to them concerning their traditional origins. They told him that Atlantis, their homeland, was lost during a cataclysm when "the earth began to tremble violently . . . then slowly, as the storm still raged, Atlantis sank into the sea." (Krippene, 1981) Escaping in small boats, they made their way to the shores of North Africa. They appear to be a tough, happy, and fiercely independant people.

Among the modern Berbers, the lightest skin pigmentation is that of the Rifians, the most European-looking Berbers. Depending on the area, 10% to 25% have light brown or blond hair. The blonds tend to be golden, or reddish; only rarely ash blond. (Coon, 1965) Concerning "blondism" among the Tuaregs and Berbers, Dr. Jean Hiernaux, Director of Research at the National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris, writes:

"The relatively high incidence of blondism in North Africa has raised much speculation. Has it evolved locally, or does it represent an admixture of European elements from an area where blondism has a high incidence? Both views are tenable." (Hiernaux, 1975)

Although Hiernaux seems to favor possible genetic influence from northern Europe, I believe the long-term evidence clearly demonstrates an innate reluctance among Cro-Magnons to interact linguistically, culturally, or sexually with their neighbors, especially in ancient times, as reiterated by numerous ethnologists, linguists, and anthropologists.

The important thing in regard to their particular pattern of distribution is that when the languages of these people are analyzed, it is apparent that they speak languages that are related to each other, but not related to the other languages spoken throughout Europe and the Near East. I have named this family of languages the Berber-Ibero-Basque Complex. The languages involved are very old, going back at least to the Neolithic Age, and possibly dating back to the Paleolithic cultures of the ice age. 

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St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria. One of the largest Eastern Orthodox cathedrals in the world.

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Love red

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Saami and Berbers - An Unexpected Mitochondrial DNA link

The sequencing of entire human mitochondrial DNAs belonging to haplogroup U reveals that this clade arose shortly after the “out of Africa” exit and rapidly radiated into numerous regionally distinct subclades. Intriguingly, the Saami of Scandinavia and the Berbers of North Africa were found to share an extremely young branch, aged merely ~ 9,000 years. This unexpected finding not only confirms that the Franco-Cantabrian refuge area of southwestern Europe was the source of late-glacial expansions of hunter-gatherers that repopulated northern Europe after the Last Glacial Maximum but also reveals a direct maternal link between those European hunter-gatherer populations and the Berbers.

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Nils Johan Mienna, photographed by Eric Borg for a 1977 National Geographic article about the Saami reindeer herders of arctic Europe.

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do this people ave enough suffering and now Ebola?

"I want to discover the cure for Ebola."

(Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo)

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the ones who ruled Egypt for over 200 years.