Discovery Of Immense Fortifications Dating Back 4,000 Years In North-Western Arabia

The North Arabian Desert oases were inhabited by sedentary populations in the 4^th and 3^rd millennia BCE. A fortification enclosing the Khaybar Oasis—one of the longest known going back to this period—was just revealed by a team of scientists from the CNRS^1 and the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU).

This new walled...