Archaeological site of Qana (Yemen). The Qana promontory on the Indian Ocean is equipped with various types of water harvesting devices.
Crypt? Maybe it's a water-storage device, roofed over, as were similar at Petra.
Posted on 03/07/2010 7:10:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Tucked away in Ans directorate of Dhamar governorate, a local stumbled across an ancient crypt within a known archaeological area, while digging a well for drinking water. According to preliminary examinations, the crypt extends anywhere between 150 and 180 meters in length and reaches over 9 meters in height.
Police in Dhamar governorate confirmed that the name of the local who stumbled across this magnificent find is Anwar Abdu-Rabbuh al-Kooli. Upon finding the crypt buried in the ground, al-Kooli reported the site to the local authorities. The police then secured the site to prevent any further tampering or access to the culturally significant area.
"The construction methods and style of the crypt indicate that it is very old, perhaps between 2100 or 2200 years old, from the Himyarite Period. This would mean it predates the arrival of Islam within Yemen," speculated Ali Daif Allah al-Sanabani, the Director of the General Authority for Antiquities in Dhamar governorate. "This is just a guess, as I had mentioned before, as we have not yet had an opportunity to apply the scientific rigors to the site in order to extract an exact date."
"This is not the first such tomb we have discovered. We are capable of doing a preliminary evaluation of its age because we have studied many similar tombs of virtually the same form and construction," added Ali. "It is carved out of the mountain; its ceiling are from the mountain, but part of the ceiling is handmade."
In unrelated news from the same directorate, police in Dawran reported the death of a young 25-year-old prospector. The young man was killed while prospecting for onyx in the Ghader Mountains when a landslide buried the area he was working on.
(Excerpt) Read more at yobserver.com ...
My first thought was “The Queen of Sheba” but it is too new by nearly a thousand years.
I am waiting for their national heritage society to disclose that the artifacts are all Hebrew...
Oh the good old days..
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See what you think, but this appears to be gibberish. A crypt "150 and 180 meters in length" and "over 9 meters in height"?!? If it were a large underground chamber constructed (as in Petra, which is a thousand miles away or something) to capture runoff from the intermittent rains, yeah, but these dimensions would correspond to possibly the largest carved underground structure from antiquity. |
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Solomon lived about 800BC or so; if the crypt is 2500 vs. 1100 years old...it could be Sheba’s Queen.
Well when part of the kingdom became Jewish they proceeded to massacre all Christians which led to the the invasions of Persians...and on it goes.
Not for nuthin but “yobserver?”
Of no obvious monetary/extortionist/utilitarian value, and dates to evil Pagan Period, so must be destroyed...unless it is a suitable site for a mosque.
It’s also not in the right continent. :’)
:’D
He thought it would be a good idea to mention it, since Yemenis listening or reading about it wouldn’t have the first clue.
Solomon was earlier than that, and it couldn’t be Sheba’s queen.
“Where’s my Yob?”
Well obviously there was no occupation of this crypt during the Time of Ignorance prior to Mohammed.
When I was a Classics Major, I did a paper on the Queen of Sheba.
I had always thought she was from Ethiopia. That turned out to be not only incorrect, it also turned out that the Ethiopia of the ancient Greeks was not the Ethiopia of today.
The Queen of Sheba was from what was once South Yemen, now just Yemen.
Interesting article - thanks for the link. I was travelling in this part of Yemen last year: one of the most beautiful parts of the world I’ve ever been in. Stated dimensions of the chamber seem almost too massive to believe, but there’s so much unknown ancient history in this part of the world....who knows?
Archaeological site of Qana (Yemen). The Qana promontory on the Indian Ocean is equipped with various types of water harvesting devices.
Crypt? Maybe it's a water-storage device, roofed over, as were similar at Petra.
LOL! Yeah, by about 1500 years. Man, you can't put anything past these sharp-eyed raghead scholars.
Solomon lived about 800BC or so; if the crypt is 2500 vs. 1100 years old...it could be Sheba’s Queen.
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