This Ethiopic cross illustrates
what Dr. Ron Eglash has established:
that Africa has a lot
to contribute to computing
and mathematics through their intuitive
grasp of fractals.
Africans of antiquity
created civilization,
and their monuments,
which still stand today,
are a true testimony of their greatness.
Most probably,
one of humanity's greatest achievements
is the invention of the alphabet,
and that has been attributed
to Mesopotamia
with their invention
of cuneiform in 1600 BC,
followed by hieroglyphics in Egypt,
and that story has been cast
in stone as historical fact.
That is, until 1998,
when one Yale professor
John Coleman Darnell
discovered these inscriptions
in the Thebes desert
on the limestone cliffs in western Egypt,
and these have been dated
at between 1800 and 1900 B.C.,
centuries before Mesopotamia.
Called Wadi el-Hol
because of the place
that they were discovered,