Saudi Arabia in Pictures

[Fledgingwings]

Thumbs up For the Photographer ! Did hell of a job with excellent professional expertise.

 

[Saif al-Arab]

Tropical forests of Southern KSA:

https://twitter.com/x/status/884204219007471616

Largest palm groove in the world in Al-Hasa.

Some random photos that I just found:

 

[Saif al-Arab]

https://twitter.com/x/status/892239999168655360

 

[Saif al-Arab]

Masjid al-Qiblatain in Madina - Saudi Arabia by Dawood Hassan, on Flickr

 

[messiach]

Where is this 'rock art'?? These inscriptions are letters from the ancient aramaic language - hebrew from biblical times. Where are these located? Who is the actual source?

This person and his Twitter is very valuable. Visit profile.

https://twitter.com/AbdullelahFarss







8000 year old rock art:

KSA has tons of rock art. Among the most in the world. Just google.

 

[Saif al-Arab]

Where is this 'rock art'?? These inscriptions are letters from the ancient aramaic language - hebrew from biblical times. Where are these located? Who is the actual source?

Why is that surprising? Aramaic is a Semitic language which is closely related to Arabic. It was spoken in much of modern-day KSA before Arabic was spoken. By the way, Aramaic, is not Hebrew. Hebrew is a separate language but as Arabic closely related to Aramaic.

BTW Aramaic inscriptions is just one out of many different ancient inscriptions in various languages. It shows that Arabia was a crossroad of the world which it also is geographically and served as that already way back. In fact since the dawn of humanity when the first humans crossed out of Africa into Asia (Eurasia) or more specifically Arabia from the Southern route and Northern route.



Here is a excellent documentary although rather short with some 200.000 views:

I posted a link. That rock art and similar one is a World UNESCO Heritage Site. They are located across KSA but mostly the North and West. They are very numerous in numbers and many new sites are discovered.

Just google ancient rock art in Saudi Arabia.

 

[messiach]

Thankyou.
These areas must be towards the west, along the red sea coastline. I have interest in arabia felix, its been my topic of interest for last two decades. Bulls are not seen in arabia, they were mostly brought in from east-africa/egypt. These inscriptions suggest they have been produced by people migrating from east-african or egyptian lands. Send me other pictures similar to these. Very intriguing indeed. Good work. Thumbs-up.

Why is that surprising? Aramaic is a Semitic language which is closely related to Arabic. It was spoken in much of modern-day KSA before Arabic was spoken. By the way, Aramaic, is not Hebrew. Hebrew is a separate language but as Arabic closely related to Aramaic.

BTW Aramaic inscriptions is just one out of many different ancient inscriptions in various languages. It shows that Arabia was a crossroad of the world which it also is geographically and served as that already way back. In fact since the dawn of humanity when the first humans crossed out of Africa into Asia (Eurasia) or more specifically Arabia from the Southern route and Northern route.



Here is a excellent documentary although rather short with some 200.000 views:

I posted a link. That rock art and similar one is a World UNESCO Heritage Site. They are located across KSA but mostly the North and West. They are very numerous in numbers and many new sites are discovered.

Just google ancient rock art in Saudi Arabia.

 

[Saif al-Arab]

Thankyou.
These areas must be towards the west, along the red sea coastline. I have interest in arabia felix, its been my topic of interest for last two decades. Bulls are not seen in arabia, they were mostly brought in from east-africa/egypt. These inscriptions suggest they have been produced by people migrating from east-african or egyptian lands. Send me other pictures similar to these. Very intriguing indeed. Good work. Thumbs-up.

It was my pleasure.

Yes, those areas (Al-Faifa mountains) are located in what is historical Southern Hijaz. This is one of the areas of KSA that have a climate somewhat reminiscent of the tropics hence the lush greenery all year round. In fact significant areas of Arabia (Arabian Peninsula) are impacted by a regional monsoon that is called khareef. Once this phenomenon covered almost all of Arabia making it one of the most fertile areas of the world and supporting large human settlements (some of the first in the world in fact). In fact not many millennia ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khareef

I have to say that I have no idea where cattle (bulls included) originate from in the world but I know that bulls reached the IVC from Arabian/Southern Mesopotamian (Semitic) civilizations. After all the first agriculture and domestication (large-scale) of animals occurred in the Arab/Semitic Near East (Levant, Northern Arabia, Mesopotamia).

The origin of cattle (domestication) also points to Mesopotamia and not East Africa and Egypt but I could be wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle#Domestication_and_husbandry

Just ask if you want to know more. I will try to answer it or maybe someone else seeing your posts will.

Finally I can recommend you to take a look at this thread and the posts in that thread. A lot of very detailed posts covering a wide range of topics related to ancient Arabia.

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/one-...nt-tombs-discovered-in-ksa-from-space.443566/

BTW speaking about Egypt, did you know that Yemen and Southern KSA (Arabia Felix as coined by the ancient Greeks and Romans) has the second largest amount of mummies in the world after Egypt next door?

I will refer to the thread below and all the sources available in that thread:

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/paleolithic-tombs-discovered-in-yemen.281381/#post-6662914

BTW if you want some books and journals about ancient Arabia, give me a call, and I can recommend you quite a few excellent works. All in English.

Also google this Oxford professor. Michael Petraglia, who heads the group and is professor of human evolution and prehistory at the School of Archaeology, Oxford University.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34170798

He recently started using Twitter (July 2017) and has already posted a few interesting things.

Great person who I have communicated with (I am a chemical engineer but nevertheless I have many interests in the fields of his study that I spent some time on as one of my many hobbies) on a few occasions. When he gets the time he is very helpful to answer any question in relation to ancient Arabia.

https://twitter.com/mdpetraglia

 

[messiach]

This person and his Twitter is very valuable. Visit profile.

https://twitter.com/AbdullelahFarss













8000 year old rock art:

KSA has tons of rock art. Among the most in the world. Just google.

The one that interests me are these two. I can see the chariot with its wheels - fascinating - reminds me of a king. Red sea coast is worth investigating.

 

[Gomig-21]

Absolutely stunning, all the pics but especially these three. Sobhan'Allah 3ala 2ard el Islam.
Any record of when the last time these volcanoes were active, Sharif?

Why is that surprising? Aramaic is a Semitic language which is closely related to Arabic. It was spoken in much of modern-day KSA before Arabic was spoken. By the way, Aramaic, is not Hebrew. Hebrew is a separate language but as Arabic closely related to Aramaic.

Quite closely related as a matter of fact. When you listen to Aramaic spoken, there are many similar words in Arabic.

 

[Saif al-Arab]

The South and Hijaz:

Ancient abandoned settlements and storage rooms close to Tai'if:

 

[Gomig-21]

Wow! Incredible.

 

[Saif al-Arab]

More random aerial photos:

 

[Saif al-Arab]

Continuing with the random photos:

 

[Gomig-21]

More random aerial photos]

Only in Saudiya are we doing doughnuts on the water!