Mecca transformation poses risk to heritage
4,700 views · Published 7 October 2014 · 2:18 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: Al Jazeera English · 2014 · News & Politics
Two million Muslims are coming to the end of their pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. However, increasing construction to cope with the world's biggest annual movements of humanity is leading many archaeologists to warn that large amounts of irreplaceable Islamic history are being bulldozed. Al Jazeera's Mohammed Adow reports from Mecca.
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