🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Sehel Island
Predynastic to Roman (3200 BCE–364 CE; peak New Kingdom and Ptolemaic) · Ancient Egyptian
Granite islet with ~600 cataract boulder inscriptions including Famine Stela 32 columns and predynastic boats.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
Dadan – Kingdom of Lihyan at AlUla
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.