**Breaking News** 7,500-year-old house found off UAE coast
Posted On: Feb 3rd, 2017 at 01:02
**Breaking News**
United Arab Emirates
A 7,500-year old house has been found on Marawah Island, off the northern coast of UAE. It is one of the most astonishing archaeological discoveries of the millennium because it widens the map of very ancient sites. Very few sites have been uncovered at this date range – most notably those in Egypt, India, Iraq, and Turkey – so to bring the Arabian Peninsula into the frame is quite an incredible alteration in historical knowledge. It shouldn’t be a surprise really, but when you see the date of 5500 BC on paper it sends shock waves through the region.
Ironically, Marawah Island sits almost bang in the middle of a straight line between the great empire of ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley Civilisation, undoubtedly the first two “civilisations” in the world. To the north sits Iran and Iraq, where the great cultures of Mesopotamia began. The house at Marawah Island dates to the exact time when the Samarra Culture arose in Mesopotamia (5500 – 4800 BC), the second earliest in the region behind the Hassuna Culture, which appears to have started around 6000 BC. In the Indus Valley region new findings have shown the civilisation there was already well established in 6000 BC, proving the Indus Valley civilisation to be the oldest in the world. And that new discovery was much to my delight as I’ve been rambling for years that civilisation started with the Indus Valley culture, and not Mesopotamia.
The three-bedroomed, 7,500-year-old house found on Marawah Island is far better than the one I’m currently living in.
