A stencil made on a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi about 67,800 years ago, is the oldest rock art ever discovered. “This image of a hand (perhaps that of a shaman) was created by someone placing their hand against the wall and then spraying a mouthful of paint around it. The stencil is among hundreds of later paintings of animals and other designs daubed in ochre and charcoal on cave walls, was reported January 21, 2026 in Nature. Until now, the earliest cave art was made by Neandertals in Europe about 65,000 years ago.

This is good evidence of.polytheistic religions 50-100 thousand years ago. Even better is the Göbekli Tepe temple, located in southeastern Turkey near the Syrian border. It is an 11-12,000 year-old archaeological site widely considered the world’s oldest temple structure. Dating to around 9500–8000 BCE, this Pre-Pottery Neolithic site features massive T-shaped stone pillars, some weighing 10 tonnes, arranged in circles, predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years. 

It is the oldest pagan, stone built, polytheistic temple known. Göbekli Tepe has been excavated for about thirty years and only five percent of it has been brought to light. Bones discovered at the site suggest that the hill was used for ritual sacrifices and festivals. 

For unknown reasons, this entire complex of Göbekli Tepe stones, pillars and sculptures were  deliberately buried around 8,000 B. C. E. The Qur’an states: “And mentioned in the Book, Idrees. Indeed, he was a man of truth and a prophet.” so perhaps Prophet Idress, who is often called Prophet Enoch-Enosh, or another very early, unknown Prophet of the One God, convinced the people who worshipped at the polytheistic Göbekli Tepe Temple to bury it; and to move south towards the spaces of the future Jerusalem and Macca. 

The Torah is filled with many people’s names, because God made an ongoing covenant at Mount Sinai, with a very large number of Jacob’s descendants plus those non-Jews who in the future will choose to join the Hebrews. 

The Qur’an has very few names of people, as can be seen in this verse: “O mankind! Be conscious of your Lord, who created you from a single soul (Adam) and created its mate from it (Eve), and spread many (millions of) men and women from them.” (Qur’an 4: 1) The earliest monotheistic Temple was rebuilt many centuries later in Arabia by Prophet Abraham, the Hebrew (Genesis 14:13) and Prophet Ismael, Abraham’s son. 

There is a Holy Link between the Muslim Kaab’a and the Jewish Jerusalem Temple. Shamefully, politicalized religious leaders have turned sacred sites in both India and Israel into battle

grounds for their brand of religious exclusivity. Yet an ancient Jewish legend predicts that when the Messiah comes and resurrection day occurs; the Kaab’a in holy Mecca, will go to join the Temple Mount’s Foundation Stone in holy Jerusalem, bringing the inhabitants of Mecca, and they shall be joined together. When the........

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