· Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia excavate 'forgotten kingdoms'. Archaeologists in the kingdom are working to excavate the remnants of the ancient cities of .
· Saudi Arabia's futuristic NEOM city has not ruled out allowing alcohol, a senior official told AFP on Wednesday, in what would be a historic change for the deeply conservative Muslim country. Unlike other Gulf countries where foreigners can have at least limited legal access to alcohol, a blanket ban remains in the kingdom, which hosts Islam's holiest sites. Expats consider the ban a deterrent ...
· While a number of social media users previously speculated that an unusual rock formation known as Al Naslaa loed in the Tayma Oasis in Saudi Arabia may have been tampered with by aliens in the past, some geologists begs to differ, The Daily Mail sandstone formation in question looks like it has bene split in half, with the divide between its two parts appearing rather smooth so ...
· In photos: Saudi Arabia's city of roses blooms in Ramadan. In Taif, pockets of the kingdom's vast desert landscape turn a vivid pink . Published: April 16, 2021 08:22 AFP. 1 .
Geologic history, stratigraphy and tectonics. Saudi Arabia is underlain by the Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rocks of the Proterozoic Arabian Craton. Up to km ( mi) of sedimentary rocks from the Cambrian through the Pliocene accumulated on the shield, including many oilbearing units.. Within these younger rocks, a large western facing escarpment .
Jubbah, loed 90 km north of the city of Ha'il is the most famous rock art site in Saudi Arabia. The carvings that can be found on the Jibal Umm Sinman cover a wide range of representations as well as a large period of time with some carving possibly being 10 000 years old. Indeed, human representations are found along with tle, ibexes, oryxes, deers, gazelles, horses, .
· Saudi Arabia has unveiled plans for a 170 kilometreslong belt of carfree, AIoptimised communities called The Line as part of its Neom project.
· Hail is wellknown for the generosity of its people in Saudi Arabia and the Arab world as it is the place where Hatim alTai, who was a famous Arab poet and one of the characters of The One Thousand and One Nights, lived. Stories about his extreme generosity have made him an icon to Arabs up till the present day, as in the proverbial phrase "more generous than Hatem". From 1836 until 1921 .
· JEDDAH: The ancient rock inscriptions at Hima in southwest Saudi Arabia on Saturday became the sixth loion in the Kingdom to be included on UNESCO's world heritage list. Saudi Arabia has a ...
· Case in point: our herdlike traveling ways have led many of us to visit the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. We go en masse to check out the amazing monuments carved in the sandstone rocks, while Mada'in Saleh, a very similar site in Saudi Arabia less than a sixhour drive from Petra, remains almost empty.
· Monumental structures built from walls of rock in Saudi Arabia are older than Egypt's pyramids and the ancient stone circles of Britain, researchers say.
· Saudi Arabia's military involvement in conflicts in the Middle East . Since the spring of 2015, Saudi Arabia has been leading a coalition of states in a military intervention against rebel forces in Yemen. The intervention has involved airstrikes, ground operations and an aerial and naval blockade of Yemen. Instead of a quick victory or resolution to the conflict, fighting has continued and ...
Rock Art in the Hail Region of Saudi Arabia. This property includes two components situated in a desert landscape: Jabel Umm Sinman at Jubbah and the Jabal alManjor and Raat at Shuwaymis. A lake once situated at the foot of the Umm Sinman hill range that has now disappeared used to be a source of fresh water for people and animals in the southern part of the Great Narfoud Desert. The ...
· The ancient rock sculptures of Saudi Arabia serve as reminders of a distant time when the desert region we know today consisted mostly of lakes and grasslands. This lush ecosystem, sustained by ...
· Saudi Arabia's NEOM to build 170kmlong, AIpowered carless city The Line development will be home to a million people and have "zero streets and zero carbon emissions," says crown prince. Photo credit: NEOM. It will span some 170 kilometers, have no cars—and yet promises a 20minute commute to work. That's the vision for an ambitious linear city to be built in Saudi Arabia .
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· Saudi Arabia has started work on a 100mile city that sits in a perfectly straight line. The city, Neom, hopes to have its first residents in 2024 and will be free of cars and streets.
· Archeologists in Saudi Arabia have discovered the largest inscriptions in the Kingdom depicting the Babylonian King Nabonidus in the northwestern city of Hail.