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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRecent BBC News article about a 9000 year old settlement found outside of Jerusalem.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-49002046Another article about 1200 year old Mosque being excavated in Israel.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-49002046
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Recent BBC News article about a 9000 year old settlement found outside of Jerusalem. (Original Post)
RussellCattle
Sep 2022
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canuckledragger
(1,671 posts)1. Now how will the religious liars reconcile that with their fairy tale..
...of the world only being 6000 years old?
Cartoonist
(7,339 posts)2. Easy, they'll say it's fake dating.
They may even go so far as to say those sites are mentioned in the bible.
Hekate
(91,292 posts)3. Our cities are so young by comparison. It feels amazing to walk where others have dwelt ...
continuously for 10,000 years.
Haggard Celine
(16,880 posts)4. The Bible talks about the Canaanites who
lived in the Levant prior to the Jews. There were also the Philistines, which is where we get the name 'Palestine.' Evidence has been found in other places that people had settlements at that time. Don't know why there couldn't have been people living in Israel. People need to ignore a lot of what the Bible says about the beginning of civilization. It's not a history book.
WarGamer
(12,591 posts)6. Awesome...