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originally posted by: Stormdancer777
originally posted by: Hanslune
a reply to: Stormdancer777
Religious fanatics do stuff like that, even the more moderate Saudi regime covered the 'Tomb of Eve" outside of Jeddah with concrete in the 70's
Tomb of Eve
yes, they do.
There was a tomb of eve?
originally posted by: Hanslune
a reply to: Stormdancer777
Religious fanatics do stuff like that, even the more moderate Saudi regime covered the 'Tomb of Eve" outside of Jeddah with concrete in the 70's
Tomb of Eve
originally posted by: FlyersFan
Okay ... I've got a question. I doubt anyone can answer it but I'll toss it out there anyways. These nutters are going around destroying tombs and mosques and churches. If they get into Mecca, would they smash up Muhammads tomb and that Kaaba etc etc as well? Is that the kind of thing that would be on their hit list?
Mecca is a huge money maker for the Saudis, and it keeps the people distracted which is what the Saudi Royals like. I can't see the House of Saud allowing the ISIS nutters to get a strong foothold in their country like has happened in Iraq.
originally posted by: FlyersFan
Okay ... I've got a question. I doubt anyone can answer it but I'll toss it out there anyways. These nutters are going around destroying tombs and mosques and churches. If they get into Mecca, would they smash up Muhammads tomb and that Kaaba etc etc as well? Is that the kind of thing that would be on their hit list?
Mecca is a huge money maker for the Saudis, and it keeps the people distracted which is what the Saudi Royals like. I can't see the House of Saud allowing the ISIS nutters to get a strong foothold in their country like has happened in Iraq.
The collections of the National Museum of Iraq include art and artifacts from ancient Sumerian, Babylonian, Akkadian, Assyrian and Chaldean civilizations. The museum also has galleries devoted to collections of both pre-Islamic and Islamic Arabian art and artifacts. Of its many noteworthy collections, the Nimrud gold collection—which features gold jewelry and figures of precious stone that date to the 9th century bce—and the collection of stone carvings and cuneiform tablets from Uruk are exceptional. The Uruk treasures date to between 3500 and 3000 BCE.
ISIS is now the richest terror group in the world. But beyond its cash recently acquired by robbing banks, the extremist group, like many others in the history-rich region, is entrenched in a billion-dollar black market for ancient artifacts.
originally posted by: LABTECH767
When ron wyatte found a house ruins near to where he researched the boat mound he there was a head stone with an image of several people carved into it walking away from a boat image, one of the figures in the depiction had it's head down and it was interpreted as the wife of Noah, after the site was dug up, the very large sarcophagus was taken out of the ground and the looter whom had raided the site Ron wyatte had discovered sold the items of jewlery from the large womans body in the sarcophagus on the black market for a rumored several million dollers.
Nothing it sacred, not even the body of the mother of us all.
originally posted by: Kamza
Well a lot of misinfo and jumping to conclusions here... The reason shrines and tombs which are venerated are destroyed is to stop them from becoming the object of worship... In essence it becomes idol worship... Now how would our creator take it if we started worshipping bricks and mortar?