Posted on 02/16/2011 8:15:23 PM PST by decimon
Little is known about the archaeology of Saudi Arabia, as the government has historically forbid aerial photographs of the landscape and religious sensitivities have made access tricky. But Google Earth is changing that. Satellite images available via the Web-based 3-D map program show that large portions of the country hold a wealth of archaeological remains that predate Islam and may be several thousand years old.
Researchers recently discovered nearly 2,000 tombs by peering through one high-resolution "window" at a rocky lava field east of the city of Jeddah — all without having to set foot in the Saudi desert.
Judging by the sheer number of stone ruins identified in Saudi Arabia, as well as in other research in Jordan, there may well be a million such sites scattered throughout the Arabian Peninsula, said David Kennedy, an archaeologist at the University of Western Australia who led the study.
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I have often wondered if the totally barran Empty Quarter might have been created by a boloid strike many years ago. Perhaps the time of Soddom and Gammorah.
I was in an elementary school last weekend. Saw a chart of numbers 1 to 10 and the words written in English, Italian, and Hindi. Some years ago I learned counting in Farsi (Persian/Iranian). I was surprised to see that the Hindi words were almost identical, and also bore some similarity to a few of either the English or Italian words.
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Judging by the sheer number of stone ruins identified in Saudi Arabia, as well as in other research in Jordan, there may well be a million such sites scattered throughout the Arabian Peninsula, said David Kennedy, an archaeologist at the University of Western Australia who led the study.If so, there would have to have been a regular water supply; the Arabian desert was still in the process of drying out 3000 years ago, and was a savannah perhaps 5000 years before that. During that 5000 years, 200 sites would have to have sprung up every year to make a million. This DK fellow must have been referring to the extent of the open spaces yet unexplored.
That’s because English, Italian, Hindi, and Farsi are all Indo-European languages.
That’s because English, Italian, Hindi, and Farsi are all Indo-European languages.
the similarities are freaky...even in some of the non indo european languages.
WoW! Sunken Civ is really part of the primordial in-group if he’s on Nyx’s speed dial.
He is in great company. According to myth NYX gave birth to Larry, Moe and Curly. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!
I’m so part of it, Nyx is *not* on mine. ;’)
They’re definitely dry there, no ETOH allowed.
Fanatical madmen who want to kill everybody who won’t convert or be a slave, and they’re sober?
It’s a darn good thing that they don’t drink alcohol.
OTOH, maybe they’d all kill each other if we got them drunk enough. If they’re that mean when they’re sober, they’re guaranteed to be mean drunks.
Do not ask me how I know this.
The arabian horse and the arabian camel are special.
Yes, I know. I’ve been around and rode Arabians.
My attempts to joke often fall flat, lol.
It wouldn’t take much to get them started fighting.
It wouldn’s surprise me (too much) to learn that Zero is trying to do just that.
It wouldn’t take much to keep them fighting, recruiting jihadists from all over the world (particularly the young nimrods) into multiple competing gangs, er, militia groups. Make sure none of them acquire a decisive edge, or run out of ammo, and let them feed themselves to each other’s guns.
I guess “hump takes on a whole old meaning...
Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.
The Egyptians, Sumerians, and Babylonians were using simple Algebra well, well before Abu Bakr slaughtered Muhammad’s rival prophets across Bedhouin tribal lands. Islamic mathematics was a product of Muslim Spain and Persia, which were, themselves, products of cross-Mediterranean / Indian acculturation that began thousands of years before under Phoenician trading outposts and then, more systematically, under Roman and Sassanid (Persian) rule.
Islam’s spread to Spain reinvigorated Mediterranean exchange following the climatic and migration convulsions of the 6th century, which, themselves, had opened the way for Bedhouin unity under Muhammad’s rule. The breakdown of Roman rule in Italy and the weakening of Byzantium left power vaccuums across the Mediterranean region that Christianity and Islam filled, in the latter case, in Spain.
While lower Spain prospered under Islamic rule, the prosperity was of trade connections with the Mideast and not due to Islamic rule. The Italians followed next with their seizure of the northern trade routes, and they immediately adopted the trans-Mediterranean learning of Islamic Spain, the Ottomans, India, and the Roman and Greek remnants in both those regions and in Egypt.
The Islamic claim on scientific and mathematical advance is bogus since it was not dependent upon the religion.
Nyx, Nyx, Nyx.
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