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Maṣnaʿat Mariya is a large walled plateau-top archaeological site located in the Dhamar province of highland Yemen.
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See Raybūn
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Group of archaeological sites located in the Sharqiyah piedmont in eastern Oman dated from the 3rd mill. BCE up until the Islamic period. Among the latter, several cemeteries and three settlements dated from the Early Iron Age located in the vicinity of an ancient falaj have served as a basis to establish the present Iron Age chronology in use in eastern Oman.
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Ancient city founded no later than the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE and abandoned in the late 6th/early 7th century CE. It was the capital city of the kingdom of Sabaʾ. Its surrounding oasis was the largest in pre-Islamic Arabia. It was watered by the 700-m-long dam. The extra muros temple Awām, dedicated to Almaqah, was a major place of pilgrimage in South Arabia.
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The iconic status of Maʾrib Dam in pre-Islamic Arabia owes much to its gigantic dimensions and the ingenuity of its builders, but even more to the fact that the Qur’an refers to its ultimate collapse.
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Ancient city-state and the former capital city of the kingdom of Maʿīn, located in the central part of the Jawf valley, in modern Yemen. Despite the absence of archaeological excavations, the remains of a city-wall and several temples have been identified. A corpus of more than 110 inscriptions from the site provides information on its social, political, and religious background.
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See Persia [Fars]
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An ancient oasis settlement in western central Arabia along the Incense Road, between Tabāla in the south and Dadān in the north. From an economic perspective, it was perhaps more significant than Mecca. Medina (Arabic: al-Madīna) is Islam’s holy city, second only to Mecca, and is the site of the “visitation to the Prophet”, i.e., the visit of his sepulchre located in the central mosque, the mosque of the Prophet Muḥammad.