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389 | Mecca, The Burial Place of Many Prophets? With Dr Jay Smith

New Podcast Let Us Reason - A Christian/Muslim Dialogue

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What Was Wrong With Arabia?

The earliest maps were done by Europeans of Arabia, not people who had gone there. What they were doing is that they went back to Petalami from the 2nd century. And so he would describe mountains and rivers and cities and towns. So what happened, the Europeans took his descriptions and then they tried to put it in a map. The first one that was ever produced is this one here. It's 1500 years after supposedly Mecca existed.

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