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  • Saudi Arabia discovers 9,000 year-old civilization

    08/26/2011 3:24:20 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 39 replies
    Reuters ^ | Wed Aug 24, 2011 | Asma Alsharif, edited by Angus MacSwan
    Saudi Arabia is excavating a new archeological site that will show horses were domesticated 9,000 years ago in the Arabian peninsula, the country's antiquities expert said Wednesday. The discovery of the civilization, named al-Maqar after the site's location, will challenge the theory that the domestication of animals took place 5,500 years ago in Central Asia, said Ali al-Ghabban, Vice-President of Antiquities and Museums at the Saudi Commission for Tourism & Antiquities. "This discovery will change our knowledge concerning the domestication of horses and the evolution of culture in the late Neolithic period," Ghabban told a news conference in the Red...