Approximate date
In caves from Indonesia to France, people paint animals and leave their hand prints. Some paintings are over 40,000 years old.
How it touches Islam The Quran tells people to travel the earth and see how creation began (29:20).
Source: History
Borders come from Cliopatria, the open map of the Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0), and are approximate. Dates before 1000 BCE are estimates, and for the earliest prophets the Quran gives the order of events but not their years. Sources: the Quran, Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim, the Seerah of Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Kathir's al-Bidaya wan-Nihaya, and standard histories. See also the villains of Islamic history, from Iblis to the Dajjal, and the library of people, nations, empires and places.
