Arabia's heirlooms face the bulldozers

Business 24-7 ^ | Saturday, January 5,2008 | James Reinl

[SunkenCiv]

While the Fujairah authorities say they are doing their best to preserve the legacy of ancient Arabia, a lone archaeologist claims they are failing in their duty and has launched a crusade to save the artefacts. Since the early 1990s, Dr Michele Ziolkowski... has been off-roading through wadis to photograph, trace and document the location of hundreds of examples of what archaeologists refer to as 'petroglyphs'... The 37-year-old is not the first archaeologist to record Fujairah's rock art - Beatrice de Cardi noted sites in the 1960s and Bertram Thomas found others in the early 20th century - but nobody has matched Ziolkowski's efforts. Some rocks have been etched with multiple images of everything from snakes and leopards to footprints, horsemen and warriors... The nature of etchings makes it difficult to identify their age, although comparisons with symbols that can be dated suggest Fujairah's rock art goes back to the third millennium BC. Most of the petroglyphs hail from the Iron Age, from 1,250-300BC, while more recent examples feature Quranic inscriptions, which were etched after the arrival of Islam in the 7th century.

[SunkenCiv]

Religion of Peace alert. Here's a photo of the soon-to-be-imprisoned or murdered professor who's causing all the problems. /sarc

(AL BAYAN)

[SunkenCiv]

· join list or digest · view topics · view or post blog · bookmark · post a topic ·
	Gods Graves Glyphs	To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are Blam, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
· Google · Archaeologica · ArchaeoBlog · Archaeology magazine · Biblical Archaeology Society · · Mirabilis · Texas AM Anthropology News · Yahoo Anthro & Archaeo · · History or Science & Nature Podcasts · Excerpt, or Link only? · cgk's list of ping lists ·

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

God, I wonder if she is Ted Ziolkowski's daughter?

[mnehring]

Considering islam’s strict control of imagery, I’m surprised they haven’t bulldozed this a long time ago. Even if this is from over a thousand years before islam existed... I’m surprised there are any ancient glifs or monuments left in that part of the world.

[G8 Diplomat]

Most of the petroglyphs hail from the Iron Age, from 1,250-300BC

Don't bulldoze it! I like relics from the world before Islam!

[poobear]

“Don’t bulldoze it! I like relics from the world before Islam!”

That is the whole point of Islam. There is nothing of any importance before or after Prophet Mo! They are sick fascists!

[SunkenCiv]

related:

Iran Plans on Destroying Tomb of King Cyrus, Friend of the Jews
Arutz Sheva | January 13, 2008 | Ezra HaLevi
Posted on 01/13/2008 1:57:06 PM EST by West Coast Conservative
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1953055/posts