A 10,000 square mile satelite photo of the central Saudi-Arabian peninsula northeast of Riyadh reveals an ancient river bed. The brilliant yellow-orange of the desert sands and the blue indicating limestone shows a jagged seam concealed by sand dunes. Geologists had long realized that pebbles of granite and basalt are abundant throughout Kuwait but are not indigenous to the area. The richest source lies in the Hijaz Mountains, about 650 miles to the west, in Saudi-Arabia. Trying to understand how the pebbles reached Kuwait, Boston University scientist Farouk El-Baz studied this satelite photo.
His work proofs that Arabia has experienced significant floods in the ancient past making the scenario of the Hyksos leaving that area of their origin plausible.
[Biblical Archaeology Review, Jul/Aug 1996, p. 52]
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