Posted on 08/27/2009 5:20:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
[this is an AP-sourced story which begins by comparing the well-known UN Heritage site Petra, which is in Jordan and a huge tourist attraction, with Madain Saleh, another lost city of the Nabateans, but basically unknown because it's in Saudi Arabia. It continues by discussing the hostility and vandalism directed at pre-Islamic artifacts and sites in the Kingdom, and a virtual ban on publications regarding them.]
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Solving the Enigma of Petra and the Nabataeans
by Joey Corbett
Biblical Archaeology Review
http://www.bib-arch.org/e-features/petra.asp
Thanks!
That’s a fascinating site. I’d never heard of it.
It is not only pre-Islamic remains. Saudi religious conservatives are even destroying the archaeological remains of the early days of Islam, even sites associated with Muhammad himself. - link
Thanks wideminded. For that matter, they’ve turned the Grand Mosque into a tourist travesty. A lot of the concrete work was done by the bin Ladens.
Me either.
This site has a lot of nice pictures of the city. Pay no attention to the cracked intro which tries to make it sound like some kind of Muslim holy site. http://www.pbase.com/adnan_masood/madain_saleh
Thanks colorado tanker!
Wow, reminds me of that line in Orwell’s ‘1984’, “whoever controls the present, controls the past.”
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