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 new study has shed light on the remarkable discovery of a small Bronze Age-era town, which was found by archaeologists in the Khaybar ... time between pastoralism and more modern urban settlements. ...

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 ...