HERE, A PHOTO-JOURNALISTIC VIEW OF OLDEST HUMAN HISTORY: This site uses thousands of ancient images and is based on concrete archeological evidence. Prehistoric and early African presence and civilization worldwide at the foundation of human society is presented in single-page, illustrated, fully-treated, stand-alone essays that take under a minute or two to read. They contain a wealth of archeological information. But to the question of civilization. Africans have had a long time to walk and sail all around the world; remember - they left Africa over a million years ago and there have always been African hunter-gatherers everywhere on the move for tens and hundreds of thousands of years. Yes. Scientists teach us that humankind traces its genetic roots to Africans. But, to what extent does civilization? As a matter of principle, the issue must be clarified as truth matters.

NEED FOR A FRESH, NEW VIEW OF CIVILIZATION FROM AN OUTSIDER: From their cribs at home, and at every level of education and through all mediums and media, whites are taught and feel pride with the assumption they pioneered world civilization. Based on "look" White and Mongul accomplishments worldwide are treated as a monolithic whole. Credit is quick to be taken by Caucasian academics, educators, historians, for civilization in earliest India (called Indo-European), Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, Greece, and Rome as accomplishments of their race. Isn't the foregoing true? But, is it the whole story? And though impoverished now, due to their abundant use of gold and the proliferation of the arts and sciences, did those phenotypically African have a Golden Age in the centuries before the birth of Christ as an expression of some ultimate flowering of the civilizations of African peoples worldwide?

Here, a broader view is aired and African (by phenotype) accomplishments worldwide will be treated as a group. By African, I mean those who phenotypically have the look of that race and not just those with a memory of historical migration from Africa (if such migration is the case) or who consider themselves to be African: and many such African-looking indigenous groups worldwide aren't considered African by themselves or others for various reasons.

THE THREE GREAT RACES AND THEIR MERGERS: The three great races are the Mongul, the White, and African. Until near 2300 BC, they were completely isolated from each other but since have mixed creating new sub-races as in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. The present work focuses not on the sub-races or Mongul or White but African. And, why? Much has been written about the others but the African is usually passed-over as being but a yawn; an insignificant footnote to history. Especially when contributions to civilization are concerned. There is, thus, an information vacuum or information gap. Here the attempt is made to bridge that gap.

THE LOOK OF THE AFRICAN: Let's omit color. Color aside, how are Africans distinguished: especially as art subjects and in ancient rock drawings, stone figurine, and human remains from 5000 years ago and earlier? African-looking people are the focus of this site. Not all will agree, but some Africans will be found with wavy hair. Others have curly hair. Sometimes, Africans have straight hair as the Afro-American U.S. Secretary of State, Donna Rice (these cases the result of miscegenation).

Still, on one hand, Africans are people who typically have or are inclined to have (not "must" have) a "head like pure wool" as the Son of Man was described in Daniel 7:9; and have a full nose, and full mouth. Yet, the figurine of the Pygmy may be shown as steatophygous. The Kung or Bushman is very slender and has delicate facial features, not broad. Prognasthism (a projecting lower jaw) may exist. African human remains show skulls that are long rather than round; although it may come as a surprise the Khoisan (Bushman) has a round skull and it was they in prehistoric Mesopotamia, Sudan, and Egypt.

CIVILIZATION: Untruths knowingly told as truths and embraced by society as truth have a devastating effect on the target population of untruth. For instance, the slave trade was fueled by convenient adherence to the contrived story that the bible said that Ham (the black race) was cursed by God to be a servant to his brothers. The bible did not say Ham - it said Ham's descendents built the ancient cities of the world and it was Canaan who was cursed, not Ham. Yet, every minister and Christian will tell you Ham is cursed by God to serve. And this brings up Hegel. The German philosopher, Georg Hegel, said that Africans were alone among people to have made no contribution to civilization. To Christian nations of the west, Hegel's teachings justified slavery and the riches made from Africa; and created a devastating history for Africans experienced until today. Was Hegel, though, correct? The reader is invited to judge the evidence for themselves.

BRIEF PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF SITE: In the menu bar, the first entry is [1] LANDS OF THE WORLD: All the geographical regions of the world are found here: Africa, Egypt (though in Africa), the Pacific, the Near East (Asia Minor), Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq), the Far East, the Mediterranean, Europe, the American continent. Each section is preceded by a map to give students and other readers a picture of the lands. [2] MADE BY HUMANKIND: contains archeological remains of human construction. [3] RELATED SUBJECTS: these are connected with early human activities as in "the gold age." [4] ONLINE RESOURCES: mostly links to Afrocentric subjects. There are probably over 100 more pages which will be added over the next two years so keep coming back. There will often be something new

MISSION: It is hoped these pages will prevail against the poor opinion held worldwide about Africans and African history and help lead to an improvement in her treatment and fortunes. Click on the drop-down menus above to see a new worldview for the geneticist, ethnologist, archeologist, art and other historians, the anthropologist, sociologist, and general reader.

Yours, Paul Marc Washington.