#ancient saudi arabia

[ancientstuff]

Sounds like a fascinating and potentially quite an important site, with regard to urbanisation.

[aas-eg]

[kemetic-dreams]

What is the DNA haplogroup of modern Egyptians?

Haplogroup E1b1b1

Wikipedia (E1b1b): E-M215, also known as E1b1b and formerly E3b, is a major human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. It is a division of the macro-haplogroup E-M96, which is defined by the single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) mutation M215. In other words, it is one of the major patrilineages of humanity, linking from father-to-son back to a common male-line ancestor ("Y-chromosomal Adam"). It is a subject of discussion and study in genetics as well as genetic genealogy, archaeology, and historical linguistics.

The E-M215 haplogroup has two ancient branches that contain all the known modern E-M215, E-M35 and E-M281 subclades. Of the latter two, the only branch that has been confirmed in a native population outside of Ethiopia is E-M35. E-M35 in turn has two known branches, haplogroup E-V68 and haplogroup E-Z827, which contain by far the majority of all modern E-M215 carrying men. E-V68 and E-V257 have been found in highest numbers in North Africa and the Horn of Africa, but also in lower numbers in parts of the Middle East and Europe, and in isolated populations of Southern Africa.

The Study authors consider Mtdna L0 thru L4 exclusively African.

Wikipedia quote: Haplogroup L3 descendants notwithstanding, the designation "haplogroup L" is typically used to designate the family of mtDNA clades that are most frequently found in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, all non-African haplogroups coalesce onto either haplogroup M or haplogroup N, and both these macrohaplogroups are simply sub-branches of haplogroup L3. Consequently, L in its broadest definition is really a paragroup containing all of modern humanity, and all human mitochondrial DNA from around the world are subclades of haplogroup L.

repeat - and all human mitochondrial DNA from around the world are subclades of haplogroup L.

Basal J*(xJ1,J2) is found at its highest frequencies among the Soqotri/Socotra (71.4%).

The people of the Island of Soqotri/Socotra are the genetically PUREST of ALL ARABS.

This is what they look like!

[movingtothefarm]

[cleonaaa]

Mistakes are just things we make to teach us and try again.

Even if we mean them.

Allah is all forgiving.

[thehellsitenewsie]

AlUla: The Middle East's once inaccessible ancient wonder (BBC)

Set in a stunning valley, this ancient desert oasis has birthed flourishing civilisations. Now, after years of being closed to outsiders, it's starting to reveal its secrets.

As a photographer, I've always been drawn to the unique way that light in the desert stretches, bounces off the sand and rock and illuminates the plains. There is a stillness in these landscapes that I've come to crave, but I'm also fascinated by the relationships people build with deserts. In the Middle East, humans have found ways to survive and even thrive in these harsh environments for millennia, and perhaps nowhere is this ingenuity more evident than in one of the Arabian Peninsula's most significant cultural cradles: AlUla (sometimes written "al-Ula"). 

Set in the AlUla Valley amid the soaring sandstone and granite mountains of north-western Saudi Arabia's Hijaz region, this ancient desert oasis has supported human life for the past 200,000 years. The area's fertile soil and access to water amid the arid, mountainous desert helped multiple civilisations blossom. The Dadan and Lihyan kingdoms that flourished here between 800 and 100 BCE were followed by Hegra, an important city in the Nabataean civilisation whose capital, Petra, was located farther north, in modern-day Jordan. 

Yet, it wasn't until 2019 when Saudi Arabia began issuing tourist visas for non-religious travel that foreign visitors were able to witness this long closed-off and unexplored valley. Today, echoes of AlUla's long and mysterious past are everywhere, and as archaeologists slowly begin to uncover the many burial mounds, tombs and rock inscriptions scattered throughout AlUla's numerous sites, this ancient oasis is finally starting to reveal its secrets.

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Mada’in Saleh, Arabia Saudita.

(Español / English)

Esta antiquísima ciudad fue tallada sobra la roca arenisca. En el pasado era un punto de encuentro de varias civilizaciones, ya que ésta era la ruta comercial entre la península arábiga y el mediterráneo.

Algunas de las inscripciones encontradas en la zona están datadas hacia el segundo milenio antes de Cristo. Sin embargo, todos los elementos arquitectónicos restantes se fechan al período de las civilizaciones Thamudi y Lihyan, entre los siglos VIII y VI a.C.

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This ancient city was carved out of sandstone. In the past it was a meeting point of several civilizations, since this was the trade route between the Arabian peninsula and the Mediterranean.

Some of the inscriptions found in the area date back to the second millennium BC. However, all the remaining architectural elements are dated to the period of the Thamudi and Lihyan civilizations, between the 8th and 6th centuries B.C.

[responsivethoughts]

Hegra, Saudi Arabia's first UNESCO World Heritage Site, features 111 ancient Nabataean tombs, blending Greek, Roman, and Egyptian influences. Once a key trading hub, its secrets continue to captivate explorers.

[adubsar]

Man of mystery discovered in Paris

The statue is of a king or high priest from the ancient Lihyanite kingdom (Saudi Arabia).

He stands 2.3 metres high, bare chested, with a physique like an ancient Egyptian god or a Greek ‘Kouros’ statue of a young man.

But he is neither Egyptian nor Greek.

[americaisthetrueoldworld]

(via America Is The True Old World: The Original Africa - eBook.)

[westcoastmidnightrun]

NEOM SAUDI ARABIA AN EPIC DISASTER IN THE WINGS

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia via various popular online press outlets and venues (such as MSN) have been leaking their plans for a new Mega City on the eastern flank of the kingdom, known as NEOM and also dubbed The Line.

The Kingdom is touting this new milestone in urban design to be on par with modern marvels of engineering and construction, something to behold along the lines of Egypt’s fabled pyramids – and to compete with Singapore’s Marina Bay, Dubai’s Marina, Jumeirah’s Burj Al Arab (the distinctive hotel shaped like a sailboat), and most recently Burj El Khalifa, one of the tallest buildings in the world – all of which are pre-eminent business, visitors and tourist destinations in Asia.

However, it would seem the price tag for this ambitious project originally estimated at One Trillion US dollars is now edging closer, per some sources, to $2.5 Trillion US dollars and many of its grandiose features and plans will have to be trimmed, cut back, or removed entirely from the project destined to open (in phases I would surmise) starting in 2035.

What is believed to the kingdom’s most ambitious undertaking yet, the region’s DISNEYLAND, so to speak, and perhaps a new economic engine for the region and the Kingdom, could also be one step closer to the undoing of the current boom enjoyed throughout the Persian Gulf region, from Kuwait and the Emirates to Saudi.

What exactly are we alluding to? Allow us to explain in an upcoming revue segment to be featured in West Coast Midnight Run’s Lifestyles section of the Kiosk.

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[ancientstuff]

Great to hear about this. I wonder if any female archaeologists will be excavating there.

[aas-eg]

ايوة تقدر تشتغل 16 ساعة وبعدين تنزل الجيم عادي

الغلط عندك عشان مبتفطرش كوكايين.

Yes, you can work for 16 hours and then go to the gym normally, The mistake is with you because you don't take cocaine

[thalassophilelife]

the planet Mars☄️✨

Al-Ula , Saudi Arabia 🏜️

[ofruinsandmyth]

A 4,500-year-old highway network, lined with well-preserved ancient tombs, in Saudi Arabia .

[psychologeek]

@qualitygentlemenpizza

141 notes, but not a single answer.

But sure "it's a dumb question"

You can just say you don't care about the truth.

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"do your research"

You mean, like how there's a synagogue in Gaza that's older then Islam?

(est. 508-9 CE)

How there's a 3,300 old lead tablet in Hebrew (ancient letters) found in the Samaria reign ("west bank").

Do you know where the name Palestine came from?

What do that mean?

But yeah, sure "Israeli parrots"

Go educate yourself

Anyone saying Israel is commiting an ethnic cleansing, please answer theose questions:

Who knows how many Jews live in Yemen?

Libya?

Syria?

Egypt?

Gaza?

How many Muslims live in Israel?