Mauritania, Africa
Pre-flood civilizations back into the last ice-age
About the navel-grabbing idols: maybe coincidence, maybe not — but a prophecy about the Great Tribulation, this from Jeremiah 30:
5 For thus saith the Lord; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
It would be interesting if there were somehow a worldwide, supernatural awareness of impending doom.