Discovery in the Oasis of Dumat Al-Jandal (Northern Saudi Arabia) -- The Platform During Excavation. Credit: © Madaj
It’s racist and they paid for Columbus’s voyage to America so he could enslave and slaughter the indigenous peoples. I demand they dig it up and replace it with a statue of MLK! (Hey, what’s a little rewriting of human history among friends, eh?) [/sarc]
6th millennium BC, interesting indeed. I am a proponent of Graham Hancock, Robert Schoch, etc. theories that have long posed that an advanced civilization(s) existed during the last Ice Age, roughly 12.8K to 11.6K years ago that then got wiped out by a global cataclysm (both Hancock and Schoch have differing views on how that advanced civilization end global cataclysmic wise but both agree that an advanced civilization(s) existed up to that point).
At any rate, as they keep digging, so to speak, they are going to find that civilization existed long before academia has long taught and postulated.
Stonehenge it aint.
What structures that remain - Saudis went through an Islamist religious period that all things which preceded Mohammad were destroyed using dynamite and bulldozers; non-koranic tapestries and writings burned