Thamud and the Messenger Saleh (Part 2)

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Thamud and the Messenger Saleh (Part 2)
By Layth (e-mail lay...@hotmail.com)

Saleh`s Camel Discovered?

In an interesting recent archeological find ( Reuters Oct 2006), a Swiss-Syrian team, after three years of excavation, have unearthed the remains of a giant camel near the area of El Kowm in northeast Syria. The camel is not of a species ever known to have existed and has presented the research team with an `anomaly` as to where this camel came from and why it has never been found since. 

 

Leg bone from a giant camel (l) compared with a modern one

 

 

 

The camel is at least double the size of any camel species known until today...

 

 

 

The camel was double the size of its present-day counterpart

 

What is also worth noting in this archeological find is that the research group have concluded that the camel did not die naturally but was most probably killed by humans:

"A group of humans apparently killed the camel while it was drinking from a spring, said Tensorer, adding that 100,000-year-old human remains were discovered nearby at the once water-rich site in the desert steppe."

Does this ring any bells?

The camel of Saleh was to be allowed to drink for a whole day by itself (26:155) and was subsequently murdered in defiance of what Saleh had told them (11:65).

What is also of interest is that the area where the camel remains were found is described as being a `lush savanna` nearly 100,000 years ago and that caves surrounding the savanna have yielded human artifacts and remains from that same period 100,000 years ago (see research into Al Doura cave ).

 

The Quran tells us that the people of Thamud lived in an savanna of gardens and springs (26:147-148) and that they used to carve the caves in the mountains as their homes (26:149).

While this may or may not be the very same camel that Saleh brought as a sign to his people, it is a confirmation that the words of the Quran are true and that such a creature did indeed exist in the realms of reality.

" Say: `Roam the Earth and see how was the end of the criminals.` And do not be saddened for them, and do not be distraught for what they plot." (27:69-70)

Ref.

Quran verses: 11:61-68, 7:73-79, 26:141-155

http://www.muse.or.jp/syria/eng/map_syria.html

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