Understanding Ancient Arabia Bronze-Age Arabia has been far less studied than parts of Mesopotamia and the Levant that existed during the same period. That’s beginning to change, though. Over the past ...
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, unlike their contemporaries in Egypt and Mesopotamia ...
People in Egypt and Mesopotamia adopted sedentary lifestyles in earlier times. Compared to the large Bronze Age cities in Mesopotamia and Egypt, settlements in Saudi Arabia tended to be smaller.
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, unlike their contemporaries in Egypt and Mesopotamia, a new study ...
Reconstruction of the Bronze Age settlement of al-Natah in Saudi Arabia ... has been more easily studied in archaeologically rich areas such as the Levant and Mesopotamia. However, in northern Arabia, ...
Many comparative dimensions, however, remain unexplored, including within the ancient Near East. Unlike contemporary societies in Syria and Mesopotamia, wool was not used as a staple finance good in ...
The design of al-Natah resembles other Bronze Age sites in northern Arabia ... complex” than their contemporaries in the Levant and Mesopotamia, the study’s authors observed.