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Rock Art in the Ha'il Region
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Rock Art in the Ha'il Region

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Rank: 1001 UNESCO
Wonder Type: Cultural
Country: Saudi Arabia
Best of: Rock Art
Description:
This property includes two components situated in a desert landscape: Jabel Umm Sinman at Jubbah and the Jabal al-Manjor and Raat at Shuwaymis. A lake once situated at the foot of the Umm Sinman hill range that has now disappeared used to be a source of fresh water for people and animals in the southern part of the Great Narfoud Desert. The ancestors of today's Arab populations have left traces of their passages in numerous petroglyphs and inscriptions on the rock face. Jabal al-Manjor and Raat form the rocky escarpment of a wadi now covered in sand. They show numerous representations of human and animal figures covering 10,000 years of history. [More Details]
This article uses material from UNESCO World Heritage List article "Rock Art in the Ha'il Region", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 IGO License.