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The Thamud were an ancient tribe or tribal confederation in pre-Islamic Arabia that occupied the northwestern Arabian Peninsula. They are attested in contemporaneous Mesopotamian and Classical inscrip
Ruins of carved buildings at Hegra
Thamudic
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Thamudic, named for the Thamud tribe, is a group of epigraphic scripts known from large numbers of inscriptions in Ancient North Arabian alphabets, which have not yet been properly studied. These text
Thamud
…that several, possibly unrelated groups, took on the name of Thamud; they probably spoke Old Arabic. The Thamud are not specially connected to the Thamudic scripts, an aggregate term for understudied writing systems of Ancient Arabia. The word Thamud appears in the Annals of the Assyrian king Sargon II (r…
Thamudic inscriptions at Wadi Rum.
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