Dear Said, You bring us back to the status of what is more important for you, humanities or science or belief in God. Well, I am an agnostic and can only hope that there is a heaven after this life. Meanwhile, I am busy with archaeometry, scientific technology applied to archaeology and geology (I am a archaeometrist) and will respect everybody who has a different opinion or faith.

Hello Jan,

Thank you for your kind answer, you the nearest to know the truth ,

You will be the happiest when find it !

Then I will be happy to hear that !

Dear Said, as a scientist, an archeologist knows nothing and is not interested in this "last" meta-physical question. We do not deal in last truths. All the best, j.

Hi Jan Berkmann, MY answer to Saad was obvious, I guess.

Your anwer is a bit gray. If you mean that you are a scientist and that archaeologists don't know anything, I dare to invite you to ask me. If you, however, meant that an archaeologist does not know very much about the last truth --whatever that ma be--or that an archaeologist did not write her/his dissertation on the Bing-Bang or in astrophysics, then you may be right..

Saad's question is a religious one, whereas I am far from any religion whereas archaeologists can be believing or non-believers, which is not important, I carefully suggest.

Dear Jan and Jan ,

Yes I have religious ground , that Allah in Quran says : قل سيروا في الأرض فانظروا كيف بدأ الخلق ثم الله ينشئ النشأة الآخرة إن الله على كل شيء قدير . Say, "Travel in the earth, then look how He began creation. Thereafter Allah brings into being the last bringing up. Surely Allah is Ever-Determiner of everything. Sura Al Ankabut 20 ( Spider ).

But we can leave religion for the moment aside !

We know that Archaeologic materials come as result of customising of the people who produced it to their ecology that time .

And we know that ecology is the product of the relation between sun and earth.

And we know that Day and night are the product of the relation between sun and earth . We know also that day and night are who make ecological belts around our earth .

So we can think in this way and examine archaeological materials according to this bacground !

greetings