[muawiyah]

Looks like a new word ~ "ante"="before", and "semitism"="Arab/Jewishness" ~ so, Before the Arabs or Jews were in dispute over the territory SOMEBODY ELSE lived there and built a building that is now one of the world's oldest human structures.

Is this surprising?

Look at the date ~ this is BEFORE the Black Sea formed isn't it? (circa 5600 BCE)

The Semitic speaking peoples ALL lived over the Turkish mountains to the North at the time.

[robomatik]

understood. now. :)

[fish hawk]

The early people were Gnomes, thus the term “Gnome of the Rock”.

[ckilmer]

The Semitic speaking peoples ALL lived over the Turkish mountains to the North at the time.
......
the kurds are Semetic?

doesn’t sound like turkey would be the place for the garden of eden?