The “Socio-Economic Complexity” of al-Natah During the Bronze Age on the Arabian Peninsula, towns like al-Natah sprung up within an interconnected network of oases in the desert. Compared to ...

A newly discovered Bronze Age city has given archaeologists some insight into how one settlement managed to avoid the ...

Reconstruction of the Bronze Age settlement of al-Natah in Saudi Arabia. Credit: AFALULA-RCU-CNRS A team of archaeologists led by Guillaume Charloux of France’s National Center for Scientific Research ...

A Bronze Age settlement hidden on the Arabian Peninsula reveals secrets about the slow growth of urbanization in the region. A small 4,400-year-old town in the Khaybar Oasis of Saudi Arabia hints ...

The remains of the town, dubbed al-Natah, were long concealed by the walled oasis of Khaybar, a green and fertile speck surrounded by desert in ... during the early Bronze Age, the researchers ...

The remains of a long-lost town dating back to the early Bronze Age were uncovered in ... a fertile land surrounded by desert in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula, according to a new study.

A small 4,400-year-old town in the Khaybar Oasis of Saudi Arabia hints that Bronze Age people in this region were slow to urbanize ... Research from al-Natah and other sites indicates that ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered a 4,000-year-old settlement tucked away in a Saudi Arabian oasis. The Bronze Age town ... despite it being located in a vast desert. Though researchers have only ...

2024, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0 A small 4,400-year-old town in the Khaybar Oasis of Saudi Arabia hints that Bronze Age people in this ... that urbanization on the Arabian Peninsula moved at a slower ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered a 4,000-year-old settlement tucked away in a Saudi Arabian oasis. The Bronze Age town, which is believed to have housed roughly 500 residents, sheds light ancient ...

In this study, Charloux and colleagues provide a detailed description of the Bronze Age town of al-Natah in Medinah province, occupied from around 2400-1500BCE. The town covered approximately 1.5 ...

Unlike the grand cities of Egypt or Mesopotamia, al-Natah’s layout adapted to the desert, focusing on ... its unique perspective on the Arabian Bronze Age. Despite its modest scale compared ...