Archaeologica.org

Using detailed satellite imagery available through Google Earth, Australian researchers have discovered what may be tombs that are thousands of years old in remote stretches of Saudi Arabia. 'Kennedy scanned 1240 square kilometers in Saudi Arabia using Google Earth. From their birds-eye view he found 1977 potential archaeological sites, including 1082 "pendants" — ancient tear-drop shaped tombs made of stone. According to Kennedy, aerial photography of Saudi Arabia is not made available to most archaeologists, and it's difficult, if not impossible, to fly over the nation. "But, Google Earth can outflank them," he says. Kennedy confirmed that the sites were vestiges of an ancient life — rather than vegetation or shadow - by asking a friend in Saudi Arabia, who is not an archaeologist, to drive out to two of the sites and photograph them. By comparing the images with structures that Kennedy has seen in Jordan, he believes the sites may be up to 9000 years old, but ground verification is of course needed.

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepe ... e-fou.html

sites may be up to 9000 years old

Not if the koran says otherwise. Remember where he is looking!

Actually the Koran is pretty vague on the Creation.
Remember that, in theory, Islam does accept the OT.
Even Jesus, just as a Prophet though.

Their argument is with Christianity, more specifically the Trinity.
The idea that Jesus is Devine.
Read the translations of the inlays on the walls of the Dome of The Rock.

As a regime, the Saudi family seems to be open to the idea of a pre-Islam Arabia
I don’t know if that can be said of some of the more fundamentalist groups though.

Anyway, these are great finds.
Now if someone can just follow up on them.
That is 1977 careers waiting out there in the desert.

kbs2244 wrote:That is 1977 careers waiting out there in the desert.

1977 lashings, more likely.