Northwest Arabia – आवारा मुसाफिर

Archaeologists discover bronze age town buried in northwest Arabia

November 3, 2024112 Views

First discovery of its kind in the region challenges traditional view of transition from nomadic pastoralism to nascent urbanism New archaeological research has revealed an exceptional Bronze Age town in the Khaybar oasis of northwest Arabia, confirming a major transition from mobile, nomadic life to settled, town life in the second half of the third millennium BCE. The finding infers that oases such as Khaybar were carefully controlled and valued landscapes that, with the advent of agriculture, supported permanent populations as centres for exchange and interaction with mobile communities. This nascent urbanism profoundly impacted the region's socio-economic organisation. A 3D virtual reconstruction of the Bronze Age town of al-Natah, based on newly published archaeological...

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Celebrating, protecting and promoting the cultural heritage

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

February 3, 2024550 Views

The Royal Commission for Alula launches 'I Care' campaign for Northwest Arabia The Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), the cultural custodian of northwest Arabia, has launched a new, inclusive heritage conservation campaign that aims to deepen and enrich the public's knowledge, awareness, and desire to protect and uplift AlUla's ancient history. The I Care campaign, which launched on 1 February, shines a local, national, and global spotlight on the importance of RCU's diverse and ongoing heritage protection projects in AlUla as the county continues to be developed into the world's largest living museum. I Care will promote the need to safeguard AlUla's diverse landscape of cultural assets, including natural and manmade monuments, as a means of boosting economic development, driving...