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Madāʾin Ṣāliḥ is one of the names given to the ancient city of Hegra, in Northwest Arabia, a possibly Liḥyanite and certainly a Nabataean and Roman site. It reached its peak in the first century BCE and in the first two centuries CE. It is famous for its monumental rock-cut tombs with decorated facades, similar to those of the Nabataean capital, Petra.
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Extra muros Sabaean federal temple dedicated to the deity Almaqah, located two kilometres south of ancient Maʾrib and connected to it by a 3-km-long processional road. The chronological span of temple use ranges from the 8th cent. BCE at the latest to the end of the 4th cent. CE.
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Archaeological site in eastern Ḥaḍramawt, Yemen, occupied from the late 2nd mill. BCE to the 4th cent. CE.
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An Arab ruler of the fourth century CE known only from a five-line epitaph, in the Arabic language but the Nabataean Aramaic script, in which he is credited with ruling most of Arabia as far as the northern borders of Yemen. It has been speculated that he was the second Nasrid (Lakhmid) king.
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See Ṣirwāḥ (Arḥab)
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See Minaic
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See Qatabanic
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The Arabian Peninsula is bordered by the Red Sea, the Arabian-Persian Gulf, and the Arabian Sea. Maritime contacts constituted important links with the outside world. Arabian ships ventured overseas, and visitors came to Arabian ports from most of the wider Indian Ocean world. Arabia was tightly integrated in networks exchanging commodities ranging from necessities to prestige and luxury goods, as well as conveying cultural impulses.
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Ancient city of the Wādī Ḥarīb (Yemen) founded no later than the 7th cent. BCE and abandoned during the 3rd century CE at the latest. For most of its history, it was a major town of the kingdom of Qatabān and an important caravan city along the trans-Arabian routes at the turn of the Christian era.
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Oasis located in the northern Hajar chain, on the border between the emirates of Ras al-Khaimah and Fujairah (United Arab Emirates). Three wādīs originate from this area (Sījī, ʿAbādila and Ḥām), famous for its water springs. Remains of Late Bronze Age (1600–1200 BCE: Masāfī-5) and Iron Age (1200–600 BCE: Masāfī-2, Masāfī-1, Masāfī-3) sites have been recorded and excavated in this area by the French Archaeological Mission in the U.A.E. between 2007 and 2020. Geoarchaeological and paleoenvironmental investigations carried out in the oasis have led to the reconstruction of environmental conditions and farming practices, from the Late Bronze Age to the present day.