If, as the Qur’an says, Mecca is the oldest and most famous city in the world since it is where Adam and Eve were sent to (see Surah 7:24), and where Abraham lived and built the Kaaba (see Surah 21:51-71), then why is there no reference to it in any documentation until 741 AD, which is over 100 years after Muhammad supposedly died, and why can it not be found on any of the archaic maps until well into the 16th century?

It is understandable why most of Arabia would not be on any ancient maps because there simply wasn’t anything worth mentioning in that region. But this cannot be said about Mecca. It is according to Islam the oldest and therefore the most important city in the history of mankind.

Yet, we cannot find any references to it, nor any drawings of it, or any map with it placed on it.

Europeans were really the first to make any significant maps of Arabia based on the records of the 2nd century geographer Ptolemy.

Yet, the only places Ptolemy referred to in his Geography of Arabia were located in northern Arabia, or in southern Arabia – while nothing was noted of importance in central Arabia, where Mecca is located.

If he knew so much about Arabia wouldn’t he have recorded the greatest, as well as the most famous, and the most historically significant city of central Arabia in his writings?

The fact that he didn’t mention it even once suggests that the city of Mecca simply did not exist that early.

Watch as Al Fadi and Dr. Jay discuss the complete lack of historical evidence for Mecca’s existence until the mid 8th century; or not until 741 AD to be precise.

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