Google Earth Reveals Thousands of Tombs in Saudi Desert | Saudi Archaeology & Tombs | LiveScience

READ MORE: Google Earth Reveals Thousands of Tombs in Saudi Desert | Saudi Archaeology & Tombs | LiveScience: "Juris Zarins, an archaeologist who worked in Saudi Arabia for 15 years and led parts of the national survey, suggests religious sensitivities play a role in the government’s limitations on archaeology . 'They don’t want people fooling around with prehistory because it contradicts the Koran — any more than fundamentalist Christians want anyone to say anything is older than six thousand years,' Zarins told LiveScience."