Uncovering the ritual past of ancient mustatils: Cult, herding, and ‘pilgrimage’ in the Late Neolithic of north-west Arabia
Mustatils—stone monuments from the Late Neolithic period thought to have been used for ritual purposes—have been the subject of new...
Researchers reveal the 4,500-year-old network of funerary avenues in Arabian Peninsula
Archaeologists from the University of Western Australia (UWA) have determined that people living in ancient northwest Arabia built long-distance “funerary...
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