A little overview of the Cradle of Gold.... past andpresent. The ancient civilizations appear to have obtained their supplies of gold from various deposits in the Middle East. Mines in the region of the Upper Nile near the Red Sea and in the Nubian Desert area supplied much of the gold used by the Egyptian pharaohs. When these mines could no longer meet their demands, deposits elsewhere, possibly in Yemen and southern Africa, were exploited. Artisans in Mesopotamia and Palestine probably obtained their supplies from Egypt and Arabia. Recent studies of the Mahd adh Dhahab (meaning "Cradle of Gold") mine in the present Kingdom of Saudi Arabia reveal that gold, silver, and copper were recovered from this region during the reign of King Solomon (961-922 B.C.). http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/prospect1/goldgip.html Antiquity There is a possibility that the Cradle of Gold is mentioned in the Biblical story of the Garden of Eden in The Book of Genesis. - "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone." Research by archaeologists Juris Zarins of Missouri State University and Farouk El-Baz of Boston University indicates that the Pishon River may be the now dried up river bed that once flowed 600 miles north east from the Mahd adh Dhahab area of the Hejaz to the Persian Gulf c. 3000 BC. Now geologists say that they may have found King Solomons Mine in Saudi Arabia. Between Mecca and Medina is an area, located in a mountainous region, known as the Cradle of Gold. There geologists found a vast abandoned gold mine. Among their finds are huge quantities of waste rock, an estimated million tons, left by the ancient miners, still containing traces of gold. Thousands of stone hammers and grindstones used to extract the gold from the ore litter the mine slopes. Said geologist Robert W. Luce: Our investigations have now confirmed that the old mine could have been as rich as described in biblical accounts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahd_adh_Dhahab Saudi Arabia's new gold mine Forget oil. Prospectors are looking to strike it rich off of gold - the shiny kind. By Barney Gimbel, writer Last Updated: August 17, 2008 (Fortune Magazine) -- A new generation of fortune hunters is seeking riches under the sands of Saudi Arabia. But this time they're searching for gold - the shiny kind, not the black, liquid variety - and potentially even more lucrative metals and minerals. "Gold, copper, phosphate, bauxite - this place could be the next Canada or Australia," says In�s Scotland, CEO of Citadel Resource Group, an Australian company that is mining copper in the kingdom. "The geology here is fantastic." Prospectors have been extracting gold in Arabia for more than 3,000 years - some say King Solomon's riches came from here - but the Saudi government only recently opened up the land for large-scale commercial exploration and production. "Saudi Arabia is the size of a small continent," says Abdallah Dab-bagh, CEO of the state-run mining company, Ma'aden (whose name means "minerals" in Arabic). "But if you look at the amount of exploration drilling that has been done here from 1945 until today, it's the equivalent of what happens in Canada in one year." When the company was founded in 1997, only one gold mine was in operation. A decade later Ma'aden - the government took half the company public in July to the tune of $2.5 billion - has five gold mines and two multibillion-dollar projects in the development and planning stages. Ma'aden's $5.5 billion endeavor promises to make the kingdom the world's largest exporter of diammonium phosphate, a fertilizer. The company is also finalizing a $10.5 billion deal with Rio Tinto Alcan (RTP) to mine bauxite and build a refinery, smelter, and power station to become a major aluminum exporter. Driving the government's mining push are job creation and diversifying an economy fueled overwhelmingly by petrodollars. Experts say bauxite and phosphate will generate huge new profits for the Saudis, and not just because their supplies of those minerals are prodigious. The country also has a special advantage. "The value in those minerals isn't captured from digging it out of the ground," says Peter Searle, a geologist with consultancy CRU International. "It's captured by processing them." And turning bauxite into aluminum, as it happens, requires an enormous amount of energy. That, as we all know, shouldn't be a problem for the Saudis
Nobody care about your attempt at anti-semitism. All those post of yours just end up being some tinly veilled attempt at disproving the claim the jews have on 1/6 of a percent of the land mass in the ME. The fact that this ended up in the conspiracy section is quite telling.
I posted it in the wrong forum by accident, so I'll move it. How is history an archeology "anti-semitic"?
It is when the person using it as an agenda and tends to mix fact with fantasy... Like you do all the time.
When there is an agenda linked to it. Just like the Nazi did prior to WW2 when they sent team all over the world looking for aryans... Just replace the Nazi with silly wahabist and we have... You!
There really is NO mystery about the gold mines in Arabia or the ancient Egyptian inscriptions. What does that have to do with Jews? Or do you think that they are the center of the universe? http://www.politicalforum.com/latest-world-news/222014-gold-arabia-past-present.html
This thread has NOTHING to do with Jews or anti-semitism.. YOU injected that for some ungodly reason. http://www.politicalforum.com/latest-world-news/222014-gold-arabia-past-present.html
