{"id":2821,"date":"2010-06-05T12:19:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T12:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/berbers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:47:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:47:35","slug":"berbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/berbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Berbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The <\/strong>B<\/strong>erbers<\/strong> of North Africa<\/a>, sometimes referred to as Amazigh, are blond and blue-eyed where they have not interbred with the Arab population. Moroccan Berbers insist that they are not Arabs{4441P} <\/sup><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n

\"Berber-map-ITA\"<\/a>They are genetically related to the Saami people of northern Scandinavia according to mtDNA studies(g)<\/sup> published in the\u00a0American Journal of Human Genetics in 2005. It is frequently mentioned that the Berbers refer to a rich land called Attala<\/a> situated in the west.\u00a0The Berbers are probably related to the Guanches<\/a> of the Canary Islands<\/a> who were also blond with blue\/grey eyes. Although the Spanish virtually wiped out the Guanches, there are still native tall blond blue-eyed individuals to be seen in the Canaries.<\/p>\n

Genetic studies in 2009 offered evidence that the first inhabitants of the Canaries were Berbers(a)<\/sup>. In 2017, additional investigation offered further confirmation of this relationship, published in a report in the October edition of Current Biology<\/em>(h)<\/sup> and expanded on in an article on the Ancient Origins<\/em> website by Alicia McDermott(i)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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\"Madghacen\"<\/a>

Madghacen<\/p><\/div>\n

The Berbers also constructed pyramidal structures as tombs or temples, such as that at Madghacen in Algeria(e)<\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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Frederick Dodson<\/a> designated the Berbers as Atlanteans in chapter 4d of his book Atlantis and the Garden of Eden<\/em>[0989<\/a>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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Recently, Ulrich Hofmann<\/a> has offered evidence[<\/sup>161<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> that the predecessors of the Berbers were the people of Atlantis. He identifies these Atlanteans with the Temehu and Tehenu<\/a> of ancient Libya, recorded in the ancient inscriptions of Egypt. Emmet Sweeney<\/a> follows a similar line, claiming[700<\/a>.36]<\/sup> that \u201cif we seek the modern descendants of the Atlanteans, we must search among the Berbers\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

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David Eccott, a British advocate of very early pre-Columbian trans-Atlantic contacts, has a paper on Andrew Collins’ website in which, among others, he claims that Berber seafarers reached the Americas and that rock art in Utah can be attributed to them(j).<\/p>\n

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The difficulties attached to tracing ancient \u2018Libyans\u2019 are outlined in a paper, What Happened to the Ancient Libyans, <\/em>by Richard L. Smith (1945- ). This essay can be downloaded as a pdf file(b)<\/sup> and is highly recommended as it gives additional insights into the credibility of many of the classical writers frequently quoted in connection with the Atlantis story.<\/p>\n

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Following the 2011 fall of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, the Berbers there, who were particularly repressed, have again begun to assert their right to greater cultural expression, considering themselves\u00a0to be\u00a0the original Libyans(c)<\/sup>. However, a report from Reuters dated 18\/10\/12(d)<\/sup> tells of the destruction of an 8,000-year-old petroglyph by Islamic extremists in an Amazigh region of Morocco. This is the latest example of efforts by the Islamic Salafists to destroy evidence of pre-Islamic culture.<\/p>\n

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Bob Idjennaden<\/a> and Mebarek Taklit have written[<\/sup>1195<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> of the prominent part played by Berbers in the shifting alliances that constituted the ‘Sea Peoples’<\/a>, who attacked Egypt at least twice during the 2nd<\/sup> millennium BC.<\/p>\n

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The possibility of a link between the Berbers and Atlantis has now been extended to include the Richat Structure<\/a>(k)<\/sup>. Although to propose an association of the Berbers with the Richat Structure is not too outlandish, once again, there is no attempt to explain why or how anyone would launch an attack from Mauritania on Athens, nearly 4000 km away by land (3000 km by sea). The idea is logistical nonsense and completely unsupported by any archaeological evidence!<\/p>\n

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(a)<\/sup>\u00a0 <\/sup><\/strong>https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2009\/10\/091021115147.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

(b) <\/sup>https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150906072525\/https:\/\/www.learner.org\/courses\/worldhistory\/support\/reading_6_3.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

(c) <\/sup>(BBC<\/em> Dec 23, 2011) https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-16289543<\/a><\/p>\n

(d)<\/sup> https:\/\/gulfnews.com\/world\/africa\/pagan-rock-carving-in-morocco-destroyed-1.1091000<\/a>
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(e)<\/span><\/sup> Madghacen 3rd century BC Mausoleum, page 1 (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n

(f)<\/sup> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250906160237\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-3608\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(g)<\/sup> Saami and Berbers\u2014An Unexpected Mitochondrial DNA Link – PMC (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n

(h)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/abstract\/S0960-9822(17)31257-5<\/a><\/p>\n

(i)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.ancient-origins.net\/news-evolution-human-origins\/researchers-get-closer-finding-origins-enigmatic-guanches-and-no-they-021687<\/a><\/p>\n

(j)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.andrewcollins.com\/page\/mysteries\/deccott.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

(k)<\/sup> https:\/\/passportoverused.com\/2020\/05\/20\/the-possible-berber-connection-to-the-lost-kingdom-of-atlantis-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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