Saudi Arabia Archive
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AncientPages.com - To date, little has been known about people living in north-western Saudi Arabia during the Neolithic – the period traditionally defined by the shift to humans
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Recent strides in interdisciplinary archaeological research in Arabia have unveiled new insights into the evolution and historical development of regional human populations, as
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A vast fortification, which is one of the longest known going back 4,000 years was just discovered by a team of scientists from
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Dogs have been human companions for a long time, perhaps even longer than we had imagined. Morphological, radiometric, and genetic analysis of bone
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Use-wear analysis of grinding tools unearthed at the site of Jebel Oraf in the Nafud desert, shows that the artifacts were used during
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A comprehensive analysis of an archaeological site in Saudi Arabia sheds new light on mustatils—stone monuments from the Late Neolithic period thought to
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists at the University of Oxford’s School of Archaeology have used satellite imagery to identify and map over 350 monumental hunting structures known
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A comprehensive scientific study combining high-quality aerial photography, a topographic survey, laser scanning, and geophysical survey have resulted in the discovery of an
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Located not far from the international airport, the Al Wathba region is home to a beautiful oasis-like wetland reserve that is enjoyed by
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from the Saudi Heritage Commission have discovered fascinating rock inscriptions in the Hail region (northern Saudi Arabia) that depict the Babylonian King
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have found evidence of one of the world's oldest Acheulean sites on the Arabian Peninsula. While excavating at the site, Al Nasim
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study by an international team of researchers published in Science Advances presents around 120,000-year-old human and animal footprints from an ancient
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Thousands of years before the Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, and the Maltese temples were built, people of Arabia constructed the mustatils. The mustatils are
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Prehistoric stone structures are usually numerous and well-studied in the Levant, the area bounded by the Taurus Mountains to the north, the Mediterranean Sea
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com - Mount Sinai, also known as Mount Moses, is a sacred site to Jews, Christians, and Muslims. In the Bible, it is written that
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Located 20 km (12.4 mi) north of the Al-`Ula town, 400 km (248.5 mi) north-west of Medina, and 500 km (310.7 mi) south-east of
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Homo Erectus, one of our closest ancient ancestors is an extinct species of often credited with first major innovation in stone tool technology. Being innovative is a
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Who made these remarkable huge animal sculptures? What tools did our ancestors use? Could this be the work of an ancient lost Sahara civilization? Located at the
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AncientPages.com - Using Google Earth satellite images, researchers from the University of Western Australia have discovered four hundred strange formations located in west-central part of Saudi Arabia. In the
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - Ancient Pages.com - Why are the 50 groups of about five pillars each clustered on the edge of the Nafud desert in northwestern Saudi Arabia? Were
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