"It is seen as a sacred place."
"It is seen as a sacred place."
I was going over some materials left behind by an amateur explorer friend of mine on mountains which should be looked into if we are to truly understand the evolution of life on earth.
One of these is Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in the African continent. This dormant volcano with three peaks has for years been considered a “sacred” mountain by the Tanzanian people and others including early explorers from the Old World. In fact, in one of the fictional Tomb Raider series, it was at the center of the quest for the “lost artifact” which controlled the rotation of the planets and the “pull and push” governing the earth’s movements. Quite apart from the lush vegetation surrounding the mountain giving life to communities around it, Mount Kilimanjaro has been attracting loads of tourists, archaeologists and, of course, explorers out to conquer its three peaks.
Lately, it has also been at the center of biblical expeditions after a group of scientists from Ohio University discovered a number of artifacts culled out of the ice cores which could shed light on the passages in the Book of Genesis.
Reports have it that back in 2000, a team led by Ohio State University geologist Lonnie Thompson explored Kibo, one of Mount Kilimanjaro's trio peaks that could potentially erupt again in the future. The team camped on the mount's slopes to excavate the ice cores to study the impact of climatic change on the ice that was capped on Kilimanjaro's majestic altitude of over 19,000 feet. As the scientists noted, the habitat around the dormant volcano is quite verdant for ecological sustenance.
Approximately 1,000 square miles of the land surrounding Mount Kilimanjaro is abundantly forested, although local farmers cultivate the foothills. Most of the mount's rugged peaks also have a variety of stunning features, including secondary summits, ridges, and pinnacles formed by wind and rain erosion.
When ice cores were drilled from Mount Kilimanjaro in 2000, scientists began analyzing the priceless samples. Upon further investigation, they stumbled on something bizarre and shocking when they found that what they brought from the famous landmark unveiled something unbelievable before their eyes. The ice cores didn't just show a great deal about how much the planet has transformed over the millennia. It also appears that Mount Kilimanjaro's ice cores could be evidence to support a piece of Biblical narration in the Book of Genesis.
As a team member noted, none of them imagined that they would cross paths with another discovery that would “make the world refer to a specific chapter in the Book of Genesis.”
The ice cores extracted from Mount Kilimanjaro did seem to confirm a narration from the
Old Testament which led the scientists to analyze a time before humans had evolved in Africa, flashing back to millions of years. Standing tall at over 19,000 feet, Mount Kilimanjaro is one of the highest free-standing mountains in the world.
The ice cores showed signs of changes dating back to the third drought from about 4000 years ago which routed back to the era of the Biblical beliefs. This ordeal lasted for over 300 years back then — a fact which could be gathered from an analysis of the ice cores gathered from the slopes of the majestic mountain. Thompson and his team could not believe the fact that this period impeccably tied with Joseph's story as narrated in chapters 37 to 50 in the Holy Book which, surprisingly, is also found in the Islamic Qur'an and the Jewish Torah. The information about former climatic conditions on our planet found in Tanzania’s dormant volcano, paved the way for a tremendous discovery that routed to the holy scriptures.
Thompson’s team noted that in the Biblical scriptures, Joseph, who possessed the miraculous power of foretelling the future, set about storing vast quantities of food grain during the seven good years that followed. Eventually, the seven predicted years of drought and famine came along, and it was the exact period of drought as recorded in the Book of Genesis. Ultimately, it was the period which scholars claim took place between 3,600 to 3,700 years ago – a period which the ice cores taken from Mount Kilimanjaro unmistakably proved to have actually occurred.