Comments on: Satellite Photos Show Ancient Saharan Fortresses of a Lost Empire

By: Archaeology Magazine

Archaeology Magazine — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:01:25 +0000

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By: Lyle

Lyle — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:53:02 +0000

Hugo is correct. There is a malware issue at archaeology.org. We tracked it to some advertisements from OpenX. Thanks for the reading tips.

https://blog.avast.com/2011/11/21/discover-lost-fortresses-and-modern-malware/

By: MeMe

MeMe — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:20:58 +0000

Around 700 AD is when North Africa fell to the invading Arabs. Many Berber Nations were slaughtered. Google “Queen Kahina”, a Berber Queen who united all the Berbers to hold off the Arab invaders from North Africa for 10 years. She was betrayed and well over 50,000 Berbers slaughtered. So yes it is likely a result of two or more different actions, the Arab muslim invasion and limited water resouces.

By: Adriana

Adriana — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:35:37 +0000

The coordinates?

By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:18:04 +0000

@3. allahallahoxenfree,

You might be on to something there. I’ve found references that Islam arrived in Morocco circa 685, and the path of conquest was certainly East to West. 7th century was definitely the happening time for Islam in North Africa.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:27:08 +0000

If you read the water extraction link, it says that they outgrew their resources and mined all the water out. THAT’s why their civilization collapsed.

By: allahallahoxenfree

allahallahoxenfree — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:45:40 +0000

Around 700 AD huh? No one knows why it collapsed, couldn’t be the rise of the caliphate could it?? That wouldn’t be politically correct though!

By: Valerie Ross

Valerie Ross — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:54:31 +0000

@Hogo — Hmm, not sure what the trouble is. The link should lead you to a 2004 article from Archaeology magazine, “Kingdom of the Sands”: http://www.archaeology.org/0403/abstracts/sands.html

By: Hogo

Hogo — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:10:03 +0000

The link for “complicated water-extraction system” leads to a page with MalWare. or so my Avast antivirus says… Sounds quite interesting though so I am a bit disappointed.