[SunkenCiv]

Thanks txnativegop.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/buried-christian-empire-in-yemen-casts-new-light-on-early-islam-a-874048.html

other sources:

http://www.nnnforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=91fa28a4beb85405564f380752bebe71&p=485353#post485353

Paul Yule’s paper:

http://www.academia.edu/589452/The_Highland_Environment_of_Himyarite_Zafar_Yemen_Neo-Geographic_Determinism

more about the Himyarite kdm:

http://nabataea.net/yemen.html
http://semitistik.uni-hd.de/yule_himyar.html
https://www.google.com/search?q=Himyarite&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

[TheOldLady]

“Plagues in Mecca” in the sixth century?

Too bad they didn’t nip this scourge in the bud.