Shifting sands ping.
The fact that the tombs predate islam creates a problem due to the fact that islam wants to pretend that nothing predates islam. (Same reason the antiquities of Egypt are going to suffer on coming years)
they also have a lot of meteorite strewn fields there.
“predate Islam” The author better be careful, saying those “inflammatory” things.
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Uh Oh! Time for a fatwah!
heeding the call of Nyx.
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greek goddess of sleep?
Indiana Jones would be so stoked right about now...
Maybe now we’ll finally get aerial/sat views of Jabal al Lawz.
Ping.
I wonder if the tombs are for men or women. I read a book once about life as a Saudi princess and it said that women there bury other women out in the desert in unmarked graves. Men do not attend the burial and there is no death certificate. (Not sure about the last part. I read the book 20 years ago.)
Why do they assume these are burial places?
The picture in the article looks like it might have to do with the distribution of water. Perhaps a well in the central point, with distribution to several remote locations, or several remote wells funneled to a central watering spot? It’s hard to tell whether or not this is possible without knowing the relative elevations of the center (Points A and C in the picture) and extreme ends of the “canals” (Near points B and D).
I can see how Islamonazis can get upset over claims that anything "predates" Islam, since (in their Koranic view) allah created the earth, as in the Bible; and then created Adam...who was the "first Muslim". Part & parcel with their belief that nobody can "convert" to Islam; only "revert", since they beleive that the natural state is Islam, from which many have fallen away.
Yet they also believe anything predating MadMo is "unIslamic", and must be destroyed.
Oh, well; just another of Satan's contradictions in his chaotic 'religion' of contradictions & hate.
Makes me wonder on occassion, when the Bible warns us to beware of cries of "peace, peace, and there is no peace", if it was, in part, alluding to the peaceless Religion of Peace?
Do the dead lose their souls?
“A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you’re talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who’s gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all ****in’ night.”
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
WoW! Sunken Civ is really part of the primordial in-group if he’s on Nyx’s speed dial.
He is in great company. According to myth NYX gave birth to Larry, Moe and Curly. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!