Arabian Peninsula

The island of Failaka is a foremost site for archaeologists because of the density of major settlements documenting the history of the Middle East during various periods. Many of these settlements were excavated by the French Mission in Kuwait. Between...

Qurayyah, a 750 acres desert site, is one of most vast walled oases of the Arabian Peninsula: after Tayma, the one with the longest continuous encircling wall. It is located at 28° 47’ 00” N and 36° 00’ 27” E in the province of Tabuk (KSA). It is here...

Mudhmar is located in Ad-Dakhiliyah Governorate, 15km west of the Adam oasis, at the foot of the mountain of the same name. It is an isolated cultic site from the Early Iron Age (1300-300 BCE), on the edge of the desert zones, which has yielded very rare...

PUBLISHED 2021. Please visit the publication's webpage. Ancient Yathill, known today as Barâqish (16° 01’ 06” N - 44° 48’ 16” E) in the Yemeni Jawf, was the second major city in the Kingdom of Ma‛în after the capital Qarnâw. Yathill’s Golden Age began in...

The bay of Ra’s al-Jinz (Oman) constitutes a single archaeological compound, with a continuous occupational history from the 6th millennium BCE onwards. The main occupation, RJ-2, is one of the foremost Bronze Age settlements in the region, providing a...