[wideminded]

Here's a good article about Saudi ambivalence toward pre-Islamic remains."

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

[SunkenCiv]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

Wow, reminds me of that line in Orwell’s ‘1984’, “whoever controls the present, controls the past.”