Interesting article from Reuters: “Saudi Arabia discovers 9,000 year-old civilization.”
Saudi Arabia is excavating a new archeological site that will show horses were domesticated 9,000 years ago in the Arabian peninsula, the country’s antiquities expert said Wednesday.
The conventional wisdom is that horses were domesticated 5,500 years ago in Central Asia.
Wow, you move out of the Middle East and you totally stop hearing about it! Today’s the Hajj, Muslims’ annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
This would have been a big deal in Dubai, here’s it’s relegated to a photo or two on Yahoo! News. Weird.
Josh finally lives in Maine again
after four years at Boston University, a stint in Southern California with
Walt Disney Feature Animation,
and two years in Dubai, UAE,
where he created and wrote
Newlywed in Dubai.
