6,000-year-old carving of Lord Rama and Lord Hanuman found in Iraq

Posted On: Nov 4th, 2015 at 19:04

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Recently I had an argument with someone – and when I say argument I don’t mean we were actually arguing – where I stated that Hinduism is without doubt the oldest religion in the world and is at least 5,000 years old, despite objections from the other person.
The two Hindu epics, both the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, talk of events in time spans most of us cannot think of and, despite them being written relatively recently, they speak of an oral tradition that is probably tens of thousands of years old.
In Iraq a stone carving of Lord Hanuman and Lord Rama has been found dating to 6,000 years ago. This is an astonishing find, not only for its antiquity but also its location. It provides more evidence of the link between ancient India, Mesopotamia and Sumer, and it’s my opinion that, despite what a lot of western scholars say, India is the seat of civilisation. The Indus Valley civilisation, for example, is at least 5,000 years old and, despite what people think, created running water channels thousands of years before the Greeks or Romans. But I think it’s clear that Indian civilisation occurred much earlier than the Indus Valley, and with this find in Iraq we clearly have advanced religious entities who still survive in Hinduism today. What I mean by that is this carving is not likely to be the first depiction of Hanuman or Rama, or be the first time they appeared. The carving’s workmanship clearly shows evolved thought processes, and thus an evolved religion. More importantly, it looks no different from carvings of Hanuman and Rama today, and I have seen many in India.
At this point in time it seems that Lord Hanuman and Lord Rama are the oldest religious entities in the world. Maybe that proves we, the human race, are just a bunch of intelligent monkeys after all!

http://www.vina.cc/2015/09/28/6000-year-old-lord-rama-and-hanuman-carvings-in-silemania-iraq/