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9/2/2009
3:29:33 pm EDT
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Archaeologists Explore Saudi Pre-Islamic History
Author: Donna Abu-Nasr, Associated Press Source: Washington Times
Title: ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXPLORE SAUDI PRE-ISLAMIC HISTORY
Much of the world knows Petra, the ancient ruin in modern-day Jordan that is celebrated in poetry as "the rose-red city, 'half as old as time,' " and which provided the climactic backdrop for "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade."
But far fewer know Madain Saleh, a similarly spectacular treasure built by the same civilization, the Nabateans.
That's because it's in Saudi Arabia, where hard-liners are deeply hostile to pagan, Jewish and Christian sites that predate the founding of Islam in the seventh century.
But now, in a quiet but notable change of course, the kingdom has opened up an archaeology boom by allowing Saudi and foreign archaeologists to explore cities and trade routes long lost in the desert.
The sensitivities run deep. Archaeologists are cautioned not to talk about pre-Islamic finds outside scholarly literature. Few ancient treasures are on display, and no Christian or Jewish relics. A fourth- or fifth-century church in eastern Saudi Arabia has been fenced off ever since its accidental discovery 20 years ago and its exact whereabouts kept secret.
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| Much Effort... | Sep 4th. at 11:45:56 am EDT
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
Has been spent over time to rewrite and reshape the truth, never to enlighten, but to hide or try to destroy certain facts and events that are either considered a travesty or an embarrassment to those doing the covering.
This is a global happening, and not merely relegated to certain religions wishing to maintain their own power, but it has also been done in the name of politics as well.
Naturally,the Fundies in the area will not be happy with the fact that the roots of their land is less than 'perfect'- or that they were anything- other- than what they are now.
Hopefully, although I am an exterme pessimist in this, humans may one day accept themselves more fully for what they are and where they came from and allow history to show itself for what it is--rather than what they wish it to be. It would actually be a step forward for all humanity.
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| Reality-Challenged | Sep 3rd. at 11:30:28 am EDT
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Fred Lawrence (Kansas City, Kansas) - Email Me
I propose that the Politically-Correct term for Muslim Fundies who deny archaeology as well as Christian Fundies who deny evolution is that they are Reality-Challenged. I would like to think that such idiotic outlooks will eventually die out because they are untrue, but I suspect that I am daydreaming.
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| Frankly, | Sep 3rd. at 7:54:33 am EDT
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
I consider both Islam and christianity to be two sides of the same-often sordid coin, waging historical war over the differences between them that could fit on the head of a pin.
Both have been subverted over time for the few to be able prosper at the expense of many.
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| Devilled Mohammed? | Sep 3rd. at 12:22:22 am EDT
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Ahr-Ohn (Bridgeport, Connecticut) - Email Me
Properly, Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mohammed were Moslem, rather than Mohammedan. It's a difference lost on those, who think that Jesus spoke Jacobean English.
The Euniche of Tarsus declared all the Roman Gods as Devils, and he might even have been right, but Zoroaster objected to Devil Worship, and tried to idolize principles, rather than historic persons, so the worship of Jesus, as ordered under the Nicaean Prostitution, is no different from Devil Worship.
Now, we see Time as beginning with a Devilised Mohammed, despite Mohammed's declaration that the Kaaba was there long before himself, and that the Black Stone was there even before Abraham.
I've been reading The Tigris Expedition, where Thor Heyerdahl wonders if he'd been standing on Noah's Tomb, even as he'd been tracing Ziggurats from Peru to Makan.
Now, how do I convince the Arabs to give me the design of some suicide cups, that were used in decidedly pre-islamic funerals?
Arawn Graalrd
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| It'd Be Funny | Sep 2nd. at 11:44:31 pm EDT
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Panthea Ge (T-Town, Michigan) - Email Me
wouldn't it? if it was found that religions consisted primarily of those things which they denied?
I'll have to look into this (the article) a bit more. It's amazing what that region can tell us through archaeology.
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| As I've Said Before, | Sep 2nd. at 5:41:28 pm EDT
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Ursyl (Murrysville, Pennsylvania) - Email Me
about Christians who cannot handle science or relationships with those who are not also Christian.
That's a mighty extremely weak faith you've got there if it cannot withstand the facts of reality and history.
Islam should be stronger than that. You weren't there at the beginning of time, get over it.
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| ... | Sep 2nd. at 5:01:04 pm EDT
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web
Shh...the Saudi crazies...err, "religious police" might kill you guys on the spot for even suggesting there were Pagans in Saudi Arabia.
Never mind the fact that mohametans will swear up and down that the mythological "Adam" was a mohametan, too.
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