July
29
/ 2022
The once magnificent capital of the Kingdom of Kindah, Al-Faw south west of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia has been the subject of a project spearheaded by the Saudi Heritage Commission, headed by a Saudi led international scientific team. The Kindah Kingdom was a confederation of north and central Arabian nomadic tribes in the 5th and 6th centuries. Historically, it’s recognized as the first nomadic Arabian monarchy. Now, a team of researchers has utilized state of the art technology to survey the site and has made some remarkable finds including the remains of an 8,000 year old Neolithic settlement, and a stone altar as well as adding 2,807 graves from different time periods to the existing list. These graves have been
