Signs Of Life Found In Ancient Inscriptions; Hint Of War

As more researchers are being curious about the history of the Earth, more studies have been conducted. Currently, they have discovered a rock with thousand of inscriptions and carvings in Jordan's Black Desert in the Jebel Qurma region.

"Nowadays, the Jebel Qurma area and the Black Desert, in general, is a highly inhospitable area, very arid and difficult to cross,"Peter Akkermans, who leads the Jebel Qurma Archaeological Landscape Project also a professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands, said. The team took photos of the modern-day landscape and revealed that there is a water but limited, so does the wildlife and vegetation, according to Live Science. 

As for the inscriptions, it is written in Safaitic. It is the alphabetic script use in ancient times by people who lived in parts of Arabia, Jordan and Syria.

Up to now, the study of the carvings in the rock is still ongoing. The archaeologists claim that what they found revolves around 2,000 years ago. Also, they have found that back then, Qurma had a sizable human population, wildlife and trees.

"There are literally many thousands of Safaitic inscriptions and petroglyphs in the Jebel Qurma region, which suggests that people intensively used the area," Akkerman added.

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As follows, some of the texts have information on what people were doing back then. Researchers also found hints of people that inhibits Jebel Qurma had a mini war with the Nabataeans, people who built the ancient city of Petra. One inscription read, "I am on the lookout for the Nabataeans."

"Our excavation at one site revealed masses of charcoal from the third century A.D., which appeared to represent several taxa [groups] of trees, which needed water year-round. Hence, the conditions in at least the third century A.D. may have been quite different from today. This is certainly something I wish to explore in the next field seasons, by coring for pollen," Akkerman concluded, according to Science Alert.