Interesting article. There's no doubt we will continue to discover fascinating things about our past human civilizations, especially with data centralization, a

Interesting article. There's no doubt we will continue to discover fascinating things about our past human civilizations, especially with data centralization, advanced mapping, etc... One big takeaway from the article, which indicates an interesting geo-political strategy behind funding research on these topics: > ... the desire to show that the country had a glorious pre-Islamic past. “The Saudis are building a national narrative,” Al-Jallad told me. ...