intrigued with the ancient pentapolis of the philistines i found myself looking for references to them by western explorers in the 19th century (who in turn would go onto reference 15th century explorers)
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@yazidihimyari hundreds of Phoenician inscriptions span the Mediterranean and Near East
there are nearly half a million cuneiform tablets from Canaan to Anatolia to Persia
choosing to write on cliff faces and boulders which can withstand the sands of time was the only choice for nomadic people
@mogroccan@TheAfolabi1996@s_m_marandi He’s based in Nigeria. I have no problem with the Muslims there, but unfortunately most Muslims around the world worship Saudi Arabia for its occupation of Hejaz and the two holy cities and, more recently, its wealth.
الله يهديه و بس
@saudifairy@sosnovik363@s_m_marandi Saudis were eating lizards in their mudbrick rooms for the last 600 years.
and Arabs descend from the southern levant/Jordan in the early Iron Age, not Nejd.
Gulf Arabs are a mixed with south asian and the Horn of Africa, so how are they the best markers for Arabs?
@Neeman75@sosnovik363@s_m_marandi euro dog. war is your nature. look at your continent. look at your fragmented borders and languages. you have nothing in common with each other but war. you’ve fought each other for millennia and dragged the world down with you many times in just the last century. barbarian dogs.
@LevineJonathan Palestinian is a nationality. The Levant invented the very alphabet you’re using.
Look up the history of Gaza or any Bronze Age city in the region. It outdates whatever connection you Europeans falsely believe to have with Israelites when they were still pagan.