Al-Ula
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al-Ula, officially AlUla, is an ancient Arabian oasis city and governorate located in Medina Province, Saudi Arabia, 350 kilometres northwest of the city of Medina. Situated in the Hejaz, a region tha
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Al Ula Old Town 2021
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Wadi Ashar in Al 'Ula
Lihyan
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Lihyan, also called Dadān or Dedan, was an ancient Arab kingdom that played a vital cultural and economic role in the north-western region of the Arabian Peninsula and used Dadanitic language. The kin
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…inscriptions that illustrate the development of the Arabic language, and a concentration of rock dwellings and tombs that date from the Nabatean and Dedanite periods that coincided with Greco-Roman influence during classical antiquity. Saudi Arabia's first UNESCO World Heritage Site, Hegra (also known as…
Lihyanite Colossal statue from Dadān, possibly of a king, it followed the standardized artistic sculpting of the Lihyanite kingdom, the original statue was painted white
A silver phiale, late 5th century BC, dedicated to the Arabian goddess al-ʾIlāt by Qainū son of Gešem, king of Qedar. His father, Gešem, is equated with both Biblical Geshem the Arab and Dadanitic Gashm bin Shahr
Gargoyle from Dadān in the form of a lion’s head, an Arabian adaptation of Syro-Hittite motifs
Two colossal statues from the sanctuary of Dadān/al-Khuraybah, possibly a figurative representations of Lihyanite kings