The Mysterious Black Mummy

I didn't want to watch this. It was pushed to the end of the list of things to bother with. I couldn't care less about the race of mummies, but then it started out fairly well and it kept getting better. Joann Fletcher is much more tolerable because she's speaking from home and not poncing around the desert as goth Orphan Annie with speech impediments.

An early mummified baby is discovered in the Saharan desert. Glyphs of animals are scratched on the rocks nearby. Samples of pollen indicate water-demanding plants once flourished. They're dated. Glyphs indicate a cattle culture.

Archaeologists determined the earth shifted axis and weather patterns changed so that subSaharan people migrated northward toward advantageous climate and terrain. Simultaneously people moved westward from the Levant bringing cattle with them. The two racial types of people mixed into a type that can be seen today in Libya.

Meanwhile similar discoveries in petroglyphs and pottery were made in Sudan, Chad, Niger, and Mali adding to western Egypt, Libya and Algeria amounting to a vast mixed prehistoric culture that took advantage of climate that was good for agriculture. Then the climate changed again. Designs in pottery show that the drying Saharan culture was pushed eastward to the Nile. The pottery designs and the glyphs show the people and the culture of Egypt is derived from them.

The study of the history of Egyptian writing begins with the Narmer Palette. But it always seemed a bit odd that the entire range of symbols in their unique style could spring into existence codified so solidly like that, so quickly, virtually overnight. These new discoveries give a good and satisfying explanation for how these styles of writing and pottery were really developed over ages much earlier than Egyptian writing and crafts appear in our historic timeline. It changes everything.

Watching the video that bases ancient migration on climate change forces you to confront modern climate change and modern migration. 

Yes, climate change causes migration. But that's not what is happening now. 

Present day migration is economic. And economic policies are political. Migration today is political. And political climate can be fixed. That makes it amazing and at the same time distressing to watch entire populations make exactly the wrong political decisions. 

Europe criticizes us while making the wrong decisions themselves. Venezuela is stuck in economic misery as their bad decisions play out to the bitter end. Venezuelan migration to Colombia is resisted. Mexico is learning from Cuba and Venezuela precisely the wrong politics, so they'll suffer the pursuant identical retarded economy, and aggravate their own migration and experience U.S. resistance. Because of politics. While the middle eastern religion welded to politics does the same thing of retarding their economies and causing migration to anywhere without their politics, but bringing their politics with them as religion. 

It's a climate change alright. But it's not weather.