Its ironic that Israel cant dig around the Temple mount either without the arabs going nutz

Wouldn't matter anyway, there aint nothing to find there except an argument.

Skinny do you remember when Arafat had the excavations done inside the dome ?
If I remember correctly the spoils dumped by them had artifacts from many nations throughout history

The archaeology of that region has been politicized since the early 1900's. Everytime there is a finding of any kind of significance it is used by the various interest groups to bolster their claims. Every country and religion and political organization do it and it annoys the piss out of archaeologists unless you are the archaeologist collecting the pay check. Dang Joseph's grave has been found at least a half dozen times. Evidence of Hebrew writing has been found on Sumerian tablets under pyramids in Egypt, that was later found out to be fraud. The Shroud of Turin is only about 400 years old and is a fake done by the Catholic church.
The Palestinians also know that an archaeological excavation can take years or decades just to find nothing significant to anybodies' cause so its a good stall tactic.

Likely some gentiles were there before Abraham ever went there. But it would be impossible for muslims to be there first because they were not on earth first.

You have any evidence to back any of these claims beyond, “I’m an archeologist”? It’s apparent through the history of your post since the time I’ve been on this site that you have a resentment against any biblical archeology. The shroud is not a catholic relic… it wasn’t even under catholic control until very recently. All scientific evidence I’ve seen in no way points to it being new, or a forgery. Archeology is extremely interesting and I respect all in the field, but don’t make false claims under the guise of, I’m an archeologist… so my word is gospel.

Right. Since the lineage of the Jews and Muslims both go back to Abraham, they pretty much both are the same age.

I'm not against Biblical Archaeology at all, its a nice magazine. The majority it is directed at proving a hypothesis instead of refuting a hypothesis. So by standard, it does not follow the scientific method.
And the shroud is indeed a forgery. The C-14 evidence, the phytolith analysis, the neutron activation analysis, metallurgical analysis, XRF, and DNA analysis all are in agreement that it is a forgery. C-14 says it is 400-450 yrs old, phytolith anlaysis says the shroud is from central Italy, neutron activation says the various paints are from Italy, Spain, and France. Metallurgical analysis says the stuff that looks like blood are iron and lead based paint, XRF analysis says there is a good bit of chromium and cyanide in the paints, and DNA says that the stuff that looks like human blood is not blood at all but rather metal based paint, and the shroud is made of flax which is linen.

But, to be fair, Abraham was not a muslim. But i dont think theres any proof nobody was there before Abraham got there. I think its unlikely he was first. Likely some other human had pitched a tent there before him.

I'm not against Biblical Archaeology at all, its a nice magazine. The majority it is directed at proving a hypothesis instead of refuting a hypothesis. So by standard, it does not follow the scientific method.
And the shroud is indeed a forgery. The C-14 evidence, the phytolith analysis, the neutron activation analysis, metallurgical analysis, XRF, and DNA analysis all are in agreement that it is a forgery. C-14 says it is 400-450 yrs old, phytolith anlaysis says the shroud is from central Italy, neutron activation says the various paints are from Italy, Spain, and France. Metallurgical analysis says the stuff that looks like blood are iron and lead based paint, XRF analysis says there is a good bit of chromium and cyanide in the paints, and DNA says that the stuff that looks like human blood is not blood at all but rather metal based paint, and the shroud is made of flax which is linen.

No Abraham was not a Muslim, or Palestinian. We can assume he was a Jew since we are told he was one of God's Chosen people.