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Cities of the dead.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
4th century BCE – 4th century CE (Kinda and Qahtan kingdom) · South Arabian–North Arabian (Kinda, Madh'hij)
Capital of the Kinda kingdom straddling the Wadi ad-Dawasir caravan route, where Saudi–German excavations uncovered a limestone temple to Kahl, residential quarters, a dam and thousands of…
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Ancient city
Nabataean to Roman (1st c BCE–106 CE annexation; tombs 1st c CE) · Nabataean / Roman / Thamudic
Southernmost major Nabataean city on incense route, Hegra preserves 111 rock-cut tombs with facades akin to Petra (but freestanding massifs), hydrological wells, and Roman annexation inscriptions.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age to Classical (800 BCE – 100 CE) · Dedanite / Lihyanite (North Arabian)
Twin tells of Umm Daraj and Al-Khuraiba flanking the AlUla oasis, whose cliffs hide the rock-cut Lion Tombs – two unfinished effigies of couchant lions only 4 m long, unique in Arabia.
