{"id":34385,"date":"2022-01-12T10:28:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T07:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/?p=34385"},"modified":"2022-01-12T10:28:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T07:28:51","slug":"a-4500-year-old-highway-network-has-been-discovered-in-the-northwest-of-the-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/latest\/a-4500-year-old-highway-network-has-been-discovered-in-the-northwest-of-the-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"A 4,500 Year-Old Highway Network Has Been Discovered In The Northwest Of The Kingdom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We would not have had nearly as many findings in Saudi Arabia if it weren&#8217;t for drones. So thank you to whoever invented drones, \u2018cus those photographs aren&#8217;t just making our Instagram feeds more addictive, but they&#8217;re also helping to bring the kingdom&#8217;s long-forgotten history to light.<\/p>\n<p>A recent paper in a scientific journal called the Holocene mentioned the existence of an ancient highway network that was discovered by archaeologists from the University Of Western Australia (UWA) near Khaybar.<\/p>\n<h2>The research paper is pretty long, so let us tell you the gist of it.<\/h2>\n<p>Thousands and thousands of years ago people paid a lot of attention to everything related to funerals. A thing that they would do was construct what archaeologists call \u201cfunerary avenues\u201d that had thousands of burial structures on both sides. These avenues would link oases and pastures.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Our new paper is out! \u201cThe Middle Holocene \u2018funerary avenues\u2019 of north-west Arabia\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OpenAccess?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OpenAccess<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HoloceneJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HoloceneJ<\/a> and can be downloaded here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y1Fxs0zLcJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/y1Fxs0zLcJ<\/a>. So what did we uncover about the funerary avenues of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Khaybar?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Khaybar<\/a>? Read on to find out. Thread 1\/13 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2l3yt0iS08\">pic.twitter.com\/2l3yt0iS08<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AAKSA (@aaksa_project) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaksa_project\/status\/1471017469682745346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>They used to do this way back in the 3rd millennium BC \u2013 roughly around the time that Stonehenge was being built.<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The funerary landscapes around <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Khaybar?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Khaybar<\/a> are truly spectacular. Remember, you can read more about the &#8216;Funerary Avenues&#8217; of Khaybar in our recent <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OpenAccess?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OpenAccess<\/a> paper. It is free to download for everyone.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y1Fxs0zLcJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/y1Fxs0zLcJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QFlrsidxah\">pic.twitter.com\/QFlrsidxah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AAKSA (@aaksa_project) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaksa_project\/status\/1472832263326892036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>The researchers apart from other things relied on aerial photography and satellite imagery to map out the place.<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We were so fortunate to have colleagues, like Khaybar historian Saifi Eisa Al Shilali(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saifieisa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@saifieisa<\/a>) and AlUla expert Yousef Albalawi (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/albalawi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@albalawi<\/a> ) from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiscoverAlUla?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DiscoverAlUla<\/a> collaborate with us. As always, our deepest thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmrAlMadani?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AmrAlMadani<\/a> and everyone <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RCU_SA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RCU_SA<\/a>. 12\/13 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iCo28LpjJL\">pic.twitter.com\/iCo28LpjJL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AAKSA (@aaksa_project) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaksa_project\/status\/1471019034678231040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>If you\u2019re into history then we\u2019d highly recommend this documentary by Discovery on the region that\u2019s available on YouTube in which they exhume some of these funerary structures. Saudi Arabia clearly has a lot of mysteries waiting to be unearthed.<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z8A0LpX7_yM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We would not have had nearly as many findings in Saudi Arabia if it weren&#8217;t for drones. So thank you to whoever invented drones, \u2018cus those photographs aren&#8217;t just making our Instagram feeds more addictive, but they&#8217;re also helping to bring the kingdom&#8217;s long-forgotten history to light. 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