In the arid desert of Saudi Arabia, the Khaybar Oasis holds a remarkable discovery: the ruins of an ancient town that tell a story of slow, transformative urbanization. Buried for millennia beneath layers of black basalt rock,

The Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) announced that archaeologists discovered a Bronze Age town in the Khaybar Oasis, located in the northwest of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a discovery published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE. The announcement was ...

Archaeologists have made an extraordinary discovery in Saudi Arabia. Under the Khaybar oasis in the Madinah province, they have identified traces of an ancient Bronze Age city that existed around 2400 B.

Al-Natah, occupied from 2400 to 1500 BCE, had about 500 residents and is the first of its kind for studying an ancient settlement in northwest Arabia.

New archaeological research has revealed an exceptional Bronze Age town in the Khaybar oasis of north-west Saudi Arabia.

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Bronze Age town in northwestern Saudi Arabia's Khaybar Oasis. This significant find sheds light on the region's early urban life and cultural heritage.

The central area is bordered by ramparts and is slightly more elevated, according to the study. Here, researchers found “stepped tower-tombs,” a new type of structure to Arabia and “defined as a large and high circular tomb with exterior stepped walls and a burial chamber with internal pillars.”

A Bronze Age settlement hidden on the Arabian Peninsula reveals secrets about the slow growth of urbanization in the region.

The discovery of a 4,000-year-old fortified town hidden in an oasis in modern-day Saudi Arabia reveals how life at the time was slowly changing from a nomadic to an urban existence, archaeologists said on Wednesday.

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of an ancient Bronze Age town under an oasis in Saudi Arabia’s Madinah province that was slowly occupied from 2400 BC. Researchers say the ancient town, dubbed al-Natah,