Archaeological Discovery Challenges Islamic Roots of Saudi Arabia

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz : Mar 24, 2016
Breaking Israel News

"The incredible find... indicates that Saudi Arabia and Yemen were areas with a rich Judeo-Christian culture and thriving communities. Islam, however, portrays Muhammad as entering a region plagued with ignorance, chaos, and pagan culture. This condition is called 'jahilliyah' in Islam."

(Saudi Arabia)—A new archaeological discovery may lead to a totally new picture of relations between the major world religions before the rise of Islam. For that very reason, it is being kept completely under wraps. (Photo by Taco Jeddah via Wikimedia)

The discovery was made in Saudi Arabia in 2014 by a joint French-Saudi expedition researching rock inscriptions near the city of Najran in an area of Northern Saudi Arabia that, until recently, used to be part of Yemen. The inscriptions, carved into sandstone, were early Arab petroglyphs dating back to 470 [AD].

The inscriptions used the same alphabet as earlier inscriptions found in Syria, indicating the roots of Arabic, previously thought to have originated in Saudi Arabia enmeshed with the roots of Islam, lay to the north. Strangely, this remarkable discovery was announced with little fanfare. 

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