How is it that when the Muslims burst out Arabian peninsula led by people closely associated with Mohammad they left all the historic sites alone. The Arabs conquered Egypt in 642 AD only 10 years after the death of Mohammad and they left the pyramids and like alone. The Salafists claim they are following the pure Islam from the time of Mohammad so why do they not follow that example. The Caliph during this time was a companion of Mohammad.
“The Arabs conquered Egypt in 642 AD only 10 years after the death of Mohammad and they left the pyramids and like alone.”
I thought it was them that tunneled into the great pyramid as well as strip it of its cover stones.
Kinda like trying to reason with liberals isn’t it?
One of the caliphs did try to demolish the Giza pyramids. He had his demo crews start with Menkaure, which is the smallest of the three big ones. After six months, they made a small dent (visible today), but the calculations showed that it would take a really, really long time to tear all three down, and cost a fortune. The hope that the conquest of Egypt would result in a monumental payday hadn’t panned out, and they had other stuff to do, so the effort was abandoned.
In Arabia, the pre-muzzie sites were deliberately depopulated and remain that way for the most part. To keep everyone in the dark about what had happened before, the Big Old Mo had a new writing system invented, and the pre-muzzie stuff became unreadable in a few generations.