Dr Abdul Aziz Al Jarallah
Many Saudi and Arab researchers and those interested in the history and archeology of the Arabian Peninsula have followed research and reports published by the Royal Commission and the National Heritage Agency, given their scientific and historical importance and their tourism investments, and their ability to interpret . Archaeological and cultural events in the highlands of the mountains of the Arab world and ancient civilized life The media says in a very brief and concise news last Tuesday:
(The Royal Commission of Al-Ula Government, in partnership with the University of Western Australia, revealed that the inhabitants of the ancient north-west of the Arabian Peninsula created long “funeral corridors”, a main thoroughfare surrounded by thousands of funerary monuments that connected Oasis and pasture, born in the third millennium BC.
The publication of the discovery results in The Holocene is the culmination of a year of progress made by the team from the University of Western Australia, overseen by the Royal Commission of AlUla.
Funeral excerpts indicate the existence of a social network 4500 years ago.
The work of the UWA team is part of a wider effort of 13 special teams whose members participated from around the world in collaboration with Saudi experts in AlUla and Khyber.
The team from the University of Western Australia used satellite image analysis, aerial photography, land surveying and excavations to identify and analyze funeral routes in an area of at least 160,000 square kilometers in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula.
The team has recorded more than 17,800 stone burials, of which about 11,000 are part of the funerary corridors. and that funeral corridors were established about 4,500 years ago). Ashraq al-Awsat newspaper last Tuesday.
The scientific work of the Royal Commission of Al-Ula with the University of Western Australia is appreciated by scientific authorities and researchers in the study of the archeology of the Arabian Peninsula. Incorporating the approach and comparing it with other researches, as these researches are similar to many stone formations with western elevations in the Sarawat Mountains, the Hijaz Mountains and the rest of the Midian Mountains, which are more than 2000 km long in the territory of the state, And at the height of the Tuwaiq Mountains are with a length of 1200 km, in addition to the edges of the Qasim Mountains, the Ola Mountains, the High Mountains of Najd, the Plateau of Asir and Najran, and other highlands.
The question is, do all the stone structures in the Arabian Peninsula and the rest of the world have long funeral corridors?
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