The Evolution of Man

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Since this topic is dependant on archaeology and theories, it is worth mentioning that one theory behind the name of the western Saudi coastal city of Jeddah (which is locally pronounced as 'Jidda' or 'Jiddah' (جِدَّة), meaning 'Grandmother') is that the city has the grave of Eve. Thousands of tourists and religious pilgrims still come to see what is left of Maqbarat Ummina Ḥawa’ (مقبرة أمنا حواء, Cemetery of Our Mother Eve): https://samslifeinjeddah.wordpress.com/2...in-jeddah/, http://tripfreakz.com/offthebeatenpath/t...-in-jeddah

Plan of Eve's tomb by Sir Richard Francis Burton, from "Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah" (1857): https://books.google.com/books?id=e8j_Mh...edir_esc=y
   

Photo in The Heart of Arabia by H. St. John B. Philby in London, 1922, pages 230–231:
   

Image in Pélerinage á la Mecque et á Medine, by Saleh Soubhi in Cairo, 1894, pages 56–57:
   

Samuel Marinus Zwemer (1900), Arabia: the cradle of Islam, F. H. Revell Company: http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24232695M/Arabia
   

The story of a Pilgrimage to Hijaz, by Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam, Calcutta 1913, pages 86–87:
   

A photograph shown by Samuel E. Shropshire, from circa 1908:
   

"The view of Hawa (our mother) in Gedda in 1321" (corresponding to a Gregorian year of 1903) in Mar'at Al-Haramein wa al-Rihlat al-Hijaziyyah wa al-Hajj wa Mashari'uh al-Diniyah by Ibrahim Rif'at Pasha (1925):
   

Photograph of the cemetery by Hardscarf, on the 14th of February, 2020:
   

Photograph by Samuel E. Shropshire, on the 13th of March, 2013:
   

Photograph by Yousef Madari, on the 14th of May, 2010:
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