Archaeologists in South Africa discover 'lost city' using laser technology

South African archaeologists have rediscovered an ancient lost city known as Kweneng using laser technology.
The researchers - who are with the University of Witwatersrand - have been studying the site in the Suikerbosrand National Park for decades.
But it was not until cutting-edge laser technology known as LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) became available in recent years that they were able to study the ruins in detail from above, and discovered that what they thought was only a scatter…
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[@msibiwagasa]

I grew up in Elukwatini Mpumalanga and our area was full of these perfectly built ancient baSotho ruins and also tombs were there amazing history indeed..

[@ochiengoduor6843]

Are they still there?I want to visit these tombs and places because Mpumalanga is very central in understanding the old testament. It has the caves that King David hid in when Saul was after him.

[@Queen77775]

​​@@ochiengoduor6843All of that happen in the Nile Valley and Israel. King David, was evil he was a European. The Bible tells the story backwards making the African Egyptians evil and making the white people Godly when it was the other way around it was the Europeans that enslaved Egyptians who were Sub Saharan African. Europeans were going to starve to death the Egyptians took them in and then they double-crossed them and took over their Kingdom and made the Egyptians slaves for 200 years Egyptians got the kingdom back the Europeans came back again and they had to run out to sub-Saharan Africa and then they come back and they enslaved Africans. Look up Dr. Henrik Clarke.

[@collinhenry12]

When I was kid growing up in Canada I remember reading books about South Africa that White people bring in civilization while it was only simple Khoisan nomadic people live there, while the so called Bantu people just move to South Africa almost same time when the Dutch landed on Cape coast are. But this evidence show that Black South Africans did have civilization before the Caucasian invasion who build stone towns and cities before 1652...the year the Boers ancestors arrive from Holland.

[@evanstocker8106]

Not necessarily black south Africans (referring to the Bantu/Bantoid groups) but maybe the ancestors of the Khoekhoe and San peoples? what I would like to know is what happened to them, since the dates from the video would likely put them from long before the Boers arrived so obviously something apocalyptic happened to force them into disappearing (possibly a mixture disease from the North and drought like what happened to the major native North American nations before the Colonial states got in there)

[@thelink3066]

Who says they were Khoisan?

[@evanstocker8106]

@@thelink3066 honestly I'm just using the one overarching group term (since Khoisan refers to a bunch of different peoples that inhabited the region prior to the Bantu migrations) to refer to whoever was there as there isn't really anything else to go off of so far in identifying them beyond ruins from the information I have to go off of.

[@thelink3066]

@@evanstocker8106 right..we dont know who left the ruins but the Khoisan hadn't built any other ruins in southwest Africa. More research is needed before we conclude that they were knoisan

[@viwekenneth6028]

Funny thing amahlubi kingdom the earliest they can predict was in 12000s when they lived in the valley of drakensbergs that's apart from the ancestors of vhenda and shona in Mapungubwe. Then some white people come an claim they arrived together with Bantu in South africa 🤦‍♂️.

[@selinaboikhutso7232]

Im tswana and clearly some of you are jealous. We tswanas are builders and have been lawful, organized and forward thinking people. That's why Kgosi Mangope wanted Bophuthatswana to be independent before he was dethroned. Why you think Botswana and Lesotho have been independent for so long. The english found the tswanas in botswana already using rocks and mud to build their huts. You guys are disrespecting Batswana. You think we're incapable. Search for eauropeans talking about Lesotho and Botswana. Our spirit is yet to reveal itself as builders, trust me.

[@Deontjie]

I agree, unfortunately some other tribes here in South Africa just want to burn down, murder and loot.

[@accountretired9479]

@@Deontjie REST

[@streetprophet007]

You shouldn't have added the jealous

[@Traewing]

you lost me at civil conflict...more like colonization

[@Willy_Tepes]

Blame Whitey :)

[@augustschweigeryt559]

Said in the video,"Precolonial Southern Africa has NO written record." They must've been really advanced!! Lololololol

[@sydwellsedibe5901]

@@augustschweigeryt559 They could write, but they did not believe in writing as it was believed that this would lead to a lowering of consciousness resonance. Speak to a Sanusi (African shaman) and perhaps hopefully they can enlighten you and free from the bondage of colonialist ignorance. Stay blessed.

[@vssss9018]

@AugustSchweigerYT What jack said was 100% true. Writing was the downfall of humanity. Indian religion Existed far before 10,000 b.c. and there is proof of this in the drawings, although it was not required to write it down until invaders disrupted the natural progress of oral tradition. The sumerians downfall was when they relied on writing opposed to resonance. Writing, technology, "science" ect... Keeps you ignorant of what you really are, because you rely on outside tools to aid you.

[@Deontjie]

No, tribal warfare.

[@Nikolizky]

Apartheid history curriculum says Africans Arrived in SA in 1700 1800s, it says only the Khoisan ( there's no such tribe called the Khoisan, the took Khoe and Xam and conveniently made them into one tribe). Also apparently, according to Apartheid curriculum, the "Khoisan" are not an African tribe and also had no issues with Europeans taking their land. I asked one pro-Apartheid history white person where the Sotho ( Tswana, South and North Sotho) people came from and when, because unlike the Zulu who are big in stature and the the Zulu language having some similarities with Swahili, the Tswana and Sotho are small in stature, lighter in complexion and their language has no direct cousin in East and Central Africa, this means if they did come from Central Africa, their move happened 1000s of years before the Zulus, hence close genetical resemblance to the "Khoisan" which no one with a brain will believe it happened within a few hundred years. Also the Zulu language and its cousin languages of Southern Africa has very distinct differences from Swahili, this means that the separation happened 1000s ago.

[@tugreenaway9448]

Like I aotearoa/ the non native say we maori took the land off maoriori, witch is a lie to take the land

[@thekornerstone3277]

Apartheid history curriculum destroyed the true South African history.

[@Deontjie]

Apartheid history said black Africans came to the Cape after 1820. I have learned about this city and the gold artefacts that was found their in my school during the seventies. I was there.

[@mooncake387]

many of our words in Zulu and especially Xhosa come from the Khoisan, we have been mixing for thousands of years.

[@mandlenkosingcukayithobi3574]

It was part of the empty land theory that was driven by Dutch and British colonisers

[@RainettaJones]

Oh wait I thought the Boers said no one was there

[@charlesspeaksthetruth4334]

Rai Jo Exactly

[@abel6642]

They lied. There's ruins all over South Africa.

[@arushanioshaka5600]

History is written by winners

[@RainettaJones]

@Waldwinthir Guillim they were NOT ABANDONED THEY WERE MURDERED READ THE NATIVE LAND ACT 1913

[@MrJbee73]

JERUSALEM!

[@matthewmann8969]

Bantus built those

[@Willy_Tepes]

Looks like stone age dry wall buildings. Whup-ti-do!

[@Prodigy396]

@@Willy_Tepes Well, depending on when these were built your ancestors were either living in caves or didn't exist.

[@aaronm97oh10]

@@Willy_Tepes that's what you think. they were for far different purposes many years ago before huge planetary changing catastrophes. believe what you will. believe the moon is a solid lifeless rock(that's what the establishment wants you to believe)

[@Willy_Tepes]

@@aaronm97oh10 What are you saying? That the moon is made of cheese? These dry stone wall structures are all over Africa and on many other continents. There is nothing complex or mysterious about them and it is bronze age technology.

[@masjm7278]

EUROPEANS were Still in Mud Huts ! some, as Ordinary SERFS ruled by Rome.

[@mrmister1657]

They NEED to use more laser technology, who knows what else we could find

[@popogejo7245]

The "lazer" people are just a band of grifters! The local population have known about these places for centuries. Just more mass media b.s. to push god knows what agenda this time. No matter their skin color or nationality these so called "experts" are talkin out their *ss, and as usual the locals are laughing at em.

[@alioukamara-ba9818]

Another grand chapter for the history book's.

[@TurtleMC1993]

Not the school ones though

[@scottdellrobinson]

Pre colonial Africa history is well known. The young lady is cauc educated.

[@GreaterThanGodLike]

pre colonial African history is not well known.

[@davinaeverett2485]

It is not well known to those who abandoned their roots.

[@scottdellrobinson]

davina everett doing research, I found that the so called whites did 100x worse against Blacks than I was aware of.

[@SeanCothrine1]

@@davinaeverett2485 what the original commentor ment is the Africans who live there actually know. English TV and books deceive and mislead.

[@tshumukokgalagadi5273]

@@SeanCothrine1 Us Batswana knew all this even though it was not writing.

[@ochiengoduor6843]

Ancient Israel settlements... The truth must be told. Jerusalem was in modern day Kalahari desert

[@ochiengoduor6843]

@Devon Lewis It's ok if that's what you think. Only time will tell.

[@canyouseemeguessnot6695]

Ding ding ding

[@mokupe8296]

Can u refer me to books or videos on this

[@BrandonChawane]

Almost on the money, the origin story of Bakongo (Bantu) is that king Manasseh of Judah sent troops to Egypt (600BC some time) to help guard the Egyptian board with ancient Nubia (because these guys were at war) They ended up staying there for about 200 years and later decided to move because of war and land... They went down to modern day Ethiopia and lived another 500years or so (until Ethiopia started enforcing Sunday after it was decreed by Emperor Constantine in 321AD). They moved down to Dzimbabwe and built the ancient city, after that they spread out to the Kalahari and build a city replicating Jerusalem, and it was called New Jerusalem. From there they moved to various places across sub Saharan Africa, conquering native tribes wherever they went, eventually building 'Kongo'(consisting of modern day Angola, DRC and Congo) as head quarters of Bantu or Bakongo kingdoms.

[@BrandonChawane]

@@thewisevirgins6769 he also had it wrong, we settled at 'new Jerusalem' when we left Zimbabwe after we left Ethiopia after we left Egypt after we were commissioned by king Manasseh to help secure Egyptian boarder against Nubian back in the 600BC

[@samyoungblood3740]

What about the ancient Gold mines With giant blocks in perfect square. Found Hundreds of feet below ground by miners an were told to cover up? Along with artifacts

[@ntwanakalitrethulebonaomnce]

Where

[@aobakwemhele6613]

It's not secret, that the Annunaki were mining gold is SA.

[@yeahsowhat643]

Anu, and antu landed there for the gold… Rip Credo..

[@mathapelomolete5430]

@@yeahsowhat643 R.I.P Baba Credo 🙏🏾 we will never forget the knowledge he provided us and we will never forget how certain snakes ( tellinger 👿) capitalized on our history.

[@Soluchi-InfiniteCoCreatorGod]

Interesting. 😊

[@zabadackakaHansCoche]

These were not houses, theres no doors and what about all the channels connecting them. Michael Tellinger explains it in detail. These structures were built more than 12'800 years ago by previous civilisations.

[@MochaQueen5]

History by non Africans is never the full truth no matter how well intentioned they are. They never let us tell our own story, that should be your first clue.

[@rudivandereep9611]

Discoverd by laser but hes been studying this site for 30 years ....??? Yet 25 years ago whilst hiking in this game reserve u walked throgh these sites ....like thousands of other hikers in past

[@brentlloyd346]

i know right.... In 30 years of studying the place he didn't realize it was actually a town. Which is still probably incorrect lmao

[@KingBhele]

I grew up in the area and nobody realized how old the structures were.

[@trutharchaeologist]

That's the true Biblical Jerusalem of True Bantu Israelites

[@tvsion2799]

No just Africans no israelites

[@williamwooten6156]

@@tvsion2799 TVsion thank you for setting the historical record str8

[@siyabongatwala5323]

Nina nilahlekelwe yilama Israelites wenu, noma beku yithi bengeke sinitshele.

[@KINGPHANTOMw85]

@@williamwooten6156 Nope the lemba was hebrews

[@luyolotshume916]

Lemba are bantus stupid bantus of Zimbabwe

[@SighKronmiller]

Awesome!s

[@kiblinflinn8147]

Here in Eastern Cape we still build our kraals and rondavilles with stone placing

[@tsiyanendlovubantu1689]

What civil conflict, they were invaded by Grecians.

[@kim1570]

Right.. the griquas.

[@ferdykeyz4583]

Mfecani

[@davidpiersonlazarov5562]

Huts with no entrance? Vibration energy harvest

[@Kenshiroit]

Probably the entrance was elevated or maybe on the top. Fortifications....maybe

[@KabeloRecap]

ok

[@samanthaholm9634]

Michael Tellinger has been talking about this too and bone turned to stone so fossilized stone. But he says its not housing as they had no doors or entrances and these stone circles cover alot of the Southern Hemisphere up to Malawi. I think this is the tip of the iceburg.

[@likeasparrowinthewildernes8333]

2Esdras2: 31-100 ''''''''''''''''''''''

[@randomakando2278]

Kweneng was occupied by the Basotho and not Tswana. To be specific Bakoena ba Monaheng. Have a look at the demographics (census 2011) of the area it still reflects that reality. I know Prof Sadr owes great allegiance to the warm hospitality with which the Batswana have welcomed him , but reality is that the area around Heildelberg where Kweneng is located was and still is a Basotho area (@t

[@tshumukokgalagadi5273]

Lesa go vua maaka.

[@okal]

I'm not very familiar with South African history. Were the Sotho, Tswana and Pedi not the same people in the past?

[@Jerry-dk6yr]

They are the same people

[@randomakando2278]

@@okal ..and then why mention Tswana?

[@ferdykeyz4583]

It's a batswana speaking Bakwena not Basotho,Basotho are a group established by moshoeshoe in the late 1800s who was only born in 1786 of which there was no people called Basotho or language called sesotho, these ruins predates the 15th century. Don't lie because in basotho today there are hlubis and other ngunis who are called Basotho these people found batswana speaking bakwena and bafokeng in this modern day lesotho and free state when running away from tshaka And they started calling them abesuthu(people of the mountains) even moshoeshoe is believed to have been of hlubi descent. And most hlubis speak Xhosa and some isizulu and that's how those batswana speaking bakoena and bafokeng ended up even adopting clicks and mixing nguni with setswana and called the language Sesotho after moshoeshoe established them deriving from abesuthu. And today they have seshoeshoe and they speak seshoeshoe because it's moshoeshoe who established them. Just like the zulus are named after Tshaka zulu who was also only born in the 1700s 1787 and established a group in the late 1800s after his name now there are zulus before tshaka there were no people called zulu or who spoke a language called zulu. The people who stayed in kweneng were speaking an ancient language Setswana in the South of Jo'burg Thaba ya batswana is located there. So stop lying.

[@nkaliphompanza7477]

Yes there is a major historical gap of pre-colonial South Africa but we plead that in uncovering the past, lets not make-up lies, so many lies are now told about South Africa to please certain people at the expense of others, like for one "Khoisans were the original people of South Africa, what a lie😩. Even Egypt is a victim of this many people are rewriting Egypts history, manipulating it to their liking and own selfish agendas. I propose we focus on the future

[@Kush-Kemet]

Not all Us are Europeanized AFRIKAN, good luck with your future 😂😂

[@peterforden5917]

why is it a city and not a town?

[@accountretired9479]

Size and number of people living there

[@KaShYaPi111]

It was a animal kingdom. Doraemon movie ichi mera dost. They all left the planet and started to live in another like earth. 😮

[@stormeagle5887]

Why does it have an english name. Why did they gave it an english name when its local heritage.

[@wildunitWORLD]

love this

[@rudaughterofzion3903]

Amazing!

[@leratotabane5841]

"There's nothing new under the Sun.... '

[@mariscamaryannevisagie8736]

Hey, that GRIN company that promised to pay us for liking your video, didn't pay me. They want me to give them money to get my payout. Fix it.

[@WhyNo-m7h]

Nice to see my country

[@williegrobler9792]

That was a lot of ground covering of ruins by nature, to occur in only 800 years. LMFAO! I guess that's the only place on earth where that could happen. I wonder where all the cover soil came from in that stable climate high on the mountains.

[@kingrutse3278]

U should ask why they are buried and there’s no record for a reason . It tells u in the Bible what happened to these cities they was looted and burned. Buried !!!

[@urbanskaipiti]

There's so much in southern Africa especially the ancient world is here...

[@stacybarnes3418]

Those were not homes or villages but ancient mine sites. Those structures have no entrances or exits, no doorways and are all attached by concentric rings.

[@williegrobler9792]

Yes, those stone rings are more than 3000 years old in other research I studied. Likely a free energy technology long lost to be re- discovered.

[@brentlloyd346]

Indeed, I think at some point in the ancient past there was a huge network of structures. Some ancient technology now lost to time

[@salathiakohli6293]

Tellinger was told by Baba credo, that those were cities African people knew how to tame elephants the reason they were build like that was to protect that from from invaders and of cause wild animals but you whites are so pre-occupied about your own narrative as always

[@mornehuman6723]

30 years! Wow! Sure took your time...

[@madvoice3703]

I know something that you need to know 😇

[@jesusexposed1848]

I'm 2 old 4 u fools

[@ekd5213]

Those are kraals..

[@discoverrealityclover9620]

Lol....

[@Deontjie]

Strange they could not just use their eyes?

[@hopebuhali3887]

Neither could you

[@Deontjie]

@@hopebuhali3887 You will be surprised. Go and look in Google Earth and see I am a major contributor to Google Earth and Panoramio. Things I discovered using my eyes. Did you discover anything?

[@hopebuhali3887]

@@Deontjie 😂😂😂😂 I am glad you asked, I've discovered a lot of things with my own eyes, but simply because not white, my discoveries wont mean anything thanks to white supremacy.

[@Deontjie]

@@hopebuhali3887 Why would whites be supreme? I think it has more to do with Africa not writing their discoveries down. Don't you agree? My contributions to Google Earth was / is open for anyone. But you need to have the motivation to work for free.

[@RR-ri4vn]

That’s far from city lol 😂

[@siyabongabhongoza939]

Ur far from sense ! 😂

[@RR-ri4vn]

@@siyabongabhongoza939 their was mud huts

[@JcoleMc]

@@RR-ri4vn The city is literally made of stone you obtuse moron

[@claudiuspereira3194]

towns .... cities states ....no written records......all academic wishful theorising...Not ONE piece of hard practical evidence ....Just a horrific waste of our tax money .....

[@kipduran]

Where are the bones? This is conjecture

[@LolLol-zp4jy]

Lost city? All i see is very old tribal settlement

[@khonsuwerk9757]

And prisoners chained together see only what the warden allows them to see. Free your mind!!!

[@siyabongatwala5323]

@@khonsuwerk9757 They don't know how much history this contains, there are ruins in SA that are older than Egypt but ke... Asikholapho. Let them be...

[@sunchildofsirius2462]

@@siyabongatwala5323 yes kemet is mznazi's child. your ancestors helped in creating the kemetic kingdom.

[@inhabitantwaps3qs803]

@@siyabongatwala5323 They are not houses where are the doorways inside there is none. They are just stone circles.

[@nickcellini5609]

OK, If this city had gone extinct/abandoned prior to the Dutch and British arriving then it would be true that the land was unoccupied at the time the colonizers arrived. This video gives no dates of when the structures were built. They need a follow up video. You people need to learn how to follow a timeline and a chronological order of events !!!

[@funnyvideos9310]

Your ancestors have taken everything from the Africans... live us alone and let us re-discover ourselves ...

[@nickcellini5609]

@@funnyvideos9310 You can't take "everything" from people who had "nothing".

[@wandamaximoff7495]

Nick Cellini go back to the Netherlands Boer

[@nickcellini5609]

@@wandamaximoff7495 I'm just asking for facts and evidence.

[@wandamaximoff7495]

Nick Cellini Just go back to the Netherlands before we pull a Zimbabwe on you 😚

[@clivepilusa7734]

That's not a city, it's a series of huts.

[@privatejoker9828]

The Zulu happened

[@privatejoker9828]

@lunga lunga it was not recorded cause there probably was no records kept

[@siyabongatwala5323]

Nangoke... The Zulu's happened ngani wena?

[@privatejoker9828]

@@siyabongatwala5323 Do you know King Shaka? That's why

[@hopebuhali3887]

Explain further please

[@accountretired9479]

@@privatejoker9828 LOL you mean the King Shaka from the late 1700s?, man but you people can be stupid

[@tannarmccluskey4249]

lol they used to say they are cattle corals , but there over 10 000 of them cities , must have had more ppl than today back then .

[@Hottie995]

Could this be the land of punt