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6 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
Neolithic to Middle Bronze (Arabian bifacial to Wadi Sawawin–Qurayyah) · South Arabian Neolithic–Bronze Ibex hunters
38 Al Haql kites (5th–2nd mill. BCE) in 3 chains along Najran Ibex escarpment — southernmost Saudi kite province.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Ancient city
Classical (500 BCE-500 CE) · South Arabian
Najran Al-Ukhdood Northern Enclosure in Najran, Najran, Saudi Arabia is a Classical (500 BCE-500 CE) ancient city attributed to South Arabian.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Ancient city
Classical (500 BCE-500 CE) · South Arabian
Najran Al-Ukhdood Northern Enclosure — Northern Annex in Najran, Najran, Saudi Arabia is a Classical (500 BCE-500 CE) ancient city attributed to South Arabian.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Ancient city
Classical (500 BCE-500 CE) · South Arabian
Najran Al-Ukhdood Northern Enclosure — Southern Extension in Najran, Najran, Saudi Arabia is a Classical (500 BCE-500 CE) ancient city attributed to South Arabian.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Rock art
Neolithic to Islamic (7000 BCE–1000 CE, peak South Arabian caravan 500 BCE–600 CE) · Neolithic hunter-pastoralists then South Arabian caravaneers (Qataban, Saba, Nabataean)
Caravan UNESCO 2021 on Najran incense route: 550 panels 100k petroglyphs 7000 BCE–Islamic with 28 caravan wells.
🇸🇦 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…
