Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers confirmed a total of six different fortified walls surrounding a network of oases in the northwest Arabian Desert. The oldest ...

The Khaybar Oasis, despite its smaller population and simpler architecture, illustrates how early societies on the Arabian Peninsula adapted to their harsh surroundings.

That was until 15 years ago, when archaeologists discovered ramparts dating back to the Bronze Age in the oasis of Tayma, to Khaybar's north. This "first essential discovery" led scientists to ...

Archaeology Archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old Bronze Age settlement hidden in Saudi Arabian oasis News By Owen Jarus published 30 October 2024 ...

A huge, Bronze Age fortification enclosing the Khaybar Oasis in the North Arabian Desert has been discovered by archaeologists. The walls would have once stretched over 14.5 kilometers (9 miles ...

The discovery of a 4,000-year-old fortified town hidden in an oasis in modern-day Saudi Arabia reveals how life at the time was slowly changing from a nomadic to an urban existence, archaeologists ...

A French-Saudi research team unearthed the 4,000-year-old hidden town named al-Natah within the walled oasis of Khaybar, a fertile land surrounded by desert in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsul… ...

A small 4,400-year-old town in the Khaybar Oasis of Saudi Arabia hints that Bronze Age people in this region were slow to urbanize, unlike their contemporaries in Egypt and Mesopotamia, a new ...

The discovery of a 4,000-year-old fortified town hidden in an oasis in modern-day Saudi Arabia reveals how life at the time was slowly changing from a nomadic to an urban ...