Saudi Arabia's Pre-Islamic History Revealed

The mention of Saudi Arabia often has people envisioning an oil-rich, nearly empty desert, where Islam originated. An exhibit in Washington, D.C., offers insight into the real history of the Arabian Peninsula, focusing on its pre-Islamic role as a trade route, the influence of nearby cultures, and the evolution of language. VOA's Faiza Elmasry reports.

[Joe-poxn]

This actually looks fascinating. Too bad Saudi Arabia censors pretty much anything before Islam. Even the Islamic stuff looks pretty cool though.

[oneworld]

The world lost so much beautiful artifacts due to rivalry. This objects is a proof and witness of human development and civilization. No one have the right to destroyed it.

[THOMASGRAPENursery]

Destroying in this case has 2 meanings:
1. Get rid of something realy bad and change with the good one.
2. Erase the past so there is no evidences and no chance for people to compare the past and the present condition.

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[CronksNewBrothel]

Pre Islamic arabian history IS SOOOO FASCINATING!!! They should’ve preserved this dammit!!

[ListenAlQuran]

tnx for Saudi Arabia's Pre-Islamic History

[firstnamelastname-krdv]

Some of those statues looked a lot like what we find in south america, malta & elsewhere.. very interesting

[lonewolf]

It saddens me as an Arab from the Arabian peninsula that our pre Islamic history wasn't preserved. Besides some poems, tribe names and wars little is preserved and much less is documented or written about.

[cultofmalgus]

back when Arabian culture was interesting.

[wanderingstar]

How insecure would you need to feel in your beliefs to destroy relics of a civilisation that no longer exists.

[arviarvi]

Before islam And Christianity there was dharama

[sutirthasartography]

I remember the stories of Arabian nights... Those were real days..

[matthewmann]

The Arab world Pre Islam seems less harsh

[محمدابوعيد-غي]

To clarify : The original Arabs are only the Saudis and our neighboring countries the Arabian Gulf states . the other Arab countries are not Arabs, but the remnants of the Persians and the Romans, and some of them are Canaanites, Assyrians, Arameans and different races .

[yaruqadishi]

As a Wathanis/Pagan Arabian I am over joyed to see this. Salami Salami

[sirac]

The Black Stone and the Kaaba (Cube) are 2 pagan monuments from the QUraish tribe, their main God was Houbal The Moon God; Hu Baal; Baal or Satan, this is what the Muslims are worshipping without knowing it !

[SandeepMeena]

All the people were idol worshippers in ancient times..first oldest civilization was indus valley civilization..real religion was culture, philosophy and humanity in ancient times

[ssss]

In Lihyan they worshipped thu algibah (the unseen one) until Luhay Alkhuzai deceived people and the tribes saying this idols your Gods each tribe have a God from the time of Noah then they start to glorify the idols Suwa Manat Hubal he found the idols after a trip he made it to the north he saw people worshipping idols then when he returned satan told him to go jeddah sea you will find the idols there .

[Anonymous-cwhb]

we Arabians aren’t all Muslims, it’s time to reveal our identity
MAKE ARABIA GREAT AGAIN
our Gods are Manaat, Al Ozza, Allate 🤲
The woman God "Lat/Allate" from the feminine verb Talut, Meaning to sprinkle water, a righteous woman used to give water to the poor who were circling in Mecca, Blessed Goddess 🙌🙏

[aliadat]

0:59. It is called Khatul Musnad. خط المسند. I have learned it in primary school.

[gaslitworldf.melissab]

Odds are, only wealthy Saudis will see and appreciate these things, which they generally already know, because they often study abroad and are exposed to more open history in general. The poor, chained to superstition and fear, enslaved by burdensome traditions will not and they never question the rightfulness of the Saudi regime over them (unless they're Shia Muslims), but even they would reject their pagan past - strangely while the rest of the world now re-joins itself to the rich, vibrant spirituality of their ancestors, whether for scholarly or spiritual edification. Oppression has many cons.