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November 21, 2004
Modern-Day Caveman Struggles to Survive With Cave Family
Topics: Middle East News and PerspectivesArab News reports on Sunday, 21, November, 2004 (09, Shawwal, 1425) JIZAN
"Modern-Day Caveman Struggles to Survive With Cave Family"
Sometimes you hear a story that sounds unbelievable. When Sayidaty, a sister publication of Arab News, heard about a family of 23 living in a cave on a mountaintop, it sounded more like fiction than fact. So Ahmad Musa of the magazine traveled to Jizan to check it out. What he found was fact stranger than fiction.
The journey began at 8 a.m., and it was tiresome and complicated from the start. We didn't have any accurate information to direct us to the land of the caveman, so we scoured the mountains asking those we encountered if they knew where he lived.
Most had only heard of him. After hours of searching, we came upon a person who confirmed that the man we were looking for lives at the top of a mountain named Hemiyah in central Al-Qasbah in Al-Ardhah region on the Saudi-Yemeni border.
Muhammad Al-Laghbi, the school principal, told us he knew the caveman well. He said the man's name was Abu Hisham. When we asked him to take us to see the man, he told us to come again next morning before the heat struck. The mountain should be climbed before dark. He said the 15-km climb takes two hours on foot because cars can't go to such places.
(Click image to enlarge - image from Arab News)
When we finally reached the mountain peak we saw the children first. They started running and calling out to their father. At that point Al-Laghbi turned to us and said: "This is the man you're looking for. It is the mountain man, Abu Hisham."After introductions were made, the caveman agreed to an interview and we were invited into the cave. Among the boulders were 20 children, two wives and a lamb. The wives and older daughters took cover once they saw us enter.
I was surprised when I saw the place crawling with children while two of the little girls were eating a breakfast of corn bread and few cooked vegetables. The small lamb, that was also sharing their breakfast, was identified to us as the "Eid lamb."
We then learned the caveman's full name, Yahya Abdu Asaad Al-Ghaldbi, and the more we learned, the stranger the story got. Read More...
Now you are probably wondering where is Jizan:
JIZAN comprises the southwestern corner of the Kingdom on the Red Sea coast. Makkah Al Mukarramah is located at its north. Asir region to its east, Red Sea to the west and Yemen to the south. Its administrative capital is Jizan which is divided into several districts such as Sabya, Abu Arish, Samtah, Farasan Island and Al-Aardha.
The Jizan area has been
thoroughly surveyed and investigated which revealed tens of
archaeological sites of various culture periods varying from the
Paleolithic to the Neolithic, and from the early Islamic to the present
century, in addition to a variety of petroglyphs, ancient inscriptions,
mining sites and the antiquities of early Islamic period such as
mosques, forts, castles and watch towers.
More on Jizan...
Posted by Hyscience at November 21, 2004 6:50 PM
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