Sargon of Akkad
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Something about this map I can't understand .
why first humans in their migration left Nile river and and instead of going north to Egypt have to pass red sea then Persian gulf then go to India then pass through those mountainous area at the border of India and Pakistan after that travel through mountainous area at north of Iran and then pass through deserts of Iraq and Syria and at the end go to Egypt .
don't you guys like me see the definition of masochism .
Actually earlier theories believed that there were two primary migrations of early humans out of Africa. One crossing into Arabia from Horn of Africa/Eastern Africa through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait (which was much shorter and much more shallow than it is today) and another crossing into Northern Arabia/Sinai/Israel/Palestine from Egypt and from there on other parts of the world. They had to cross mountainous areas in both Southern and Northern Arabia in both instances.
However now it appears that the first theory is the oldest and that the first people out of Africa crossed into Egypt from neighboring Northern Arabia. Not the other way around.
You should check out all of those links that I posted in post 4.
Anyway since hardly anything (at least very little) of Arabia has been explored by archaeologists, despite its central role in human history, new findings might tell different stories. The same goes for other parts of the world. Anyway the past is interesting indeed but I believe that people of the region need to think more about the future given the current situation. Every educated person knows that we have a great history and past that is rivaled by few areas of the world. However we cannot say the same about our current situation and unlikely our near future.
Speaking about early human migrations this older (2011) article below tells a similar story.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2057546/Early-humans-Africa-route-Arabia-Egypt.html