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  • Dr. Ghanim Wahida archeology dept. King Saud University, Riyadh &Dr. Norman Whalen, dept. of archeology Southwest Texas State univ. excavating at al-Dawadimi a rock tool site of  Middle Acheulean artifacts.  Pleistocene.  Saudi Arabia
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  • "The Golden Warrior," A 5th Century B.C. Saka chieftain, was found splendidly preserved in 1969 in the Issiq burial mound near Almaty at the foot of the tien Shan Mountains overlooking MOunt Talgar.  His elaboriately decorated gold uniform and headdress contain a complex array of symbols representing military, political and spiritual ideas.  Dr. Kemal A. Akishev led the excavation.  Reporductions by Krym Altynebokov.  Museum of Archeology, Almaty
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  • Wine press at Al-Okhdood archeological city in Najran is the site of an ancient city in southern Arabia, founded in the 6th or 7th century B.C.  It is the site of the burning to death by the Jewish rulers  of 1,500 people who converted to Christianity in 525 B.C.  A campaign has been undertaken to include the historical location in the UNESCO World-Heritage list.
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  • At Mada'in Saleh, wealthy Nabataens were buried in splendor in tomb carved in rock and long since robbed of valuables.               The archeological site of Al-Hijr (Madain Saleh) is the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in  Saudi Arabia.  It is a major center of the Nabataen civilization.  It is the largest Nabataen site south of Petra in Jordan.  It bears testimony to teh Nabataen civiliztkion between the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC and pre-Islamic period in the 1st century AD.
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  • Al-Okhdood archeological city in Najran is the site of an ancient city in southern Arabia, founded in the 6th or 7th century B.C.  It is the site of the burning to death by the Jewish rulers  of 1,500 people who converted to Christianity in 525 B.C.  A campaign has been undertaken to include the historical location in the UNESCO World-Heritage list.
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  • At Mada'in Saleh, wealthy Nabataens were buried in splendor in tomb carved in rock and long since robbed of valuables.               The archeological site of Al-Hijr (Madain Saleh) is the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in  Saudi Arabia.  It is a major center of the Nabataen civilization.  It is the largest Nabataen site south of Petra in Jordan.  It bears testimony to teh Nabataen civiliztkion between the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC and pre-Islamic period in the 1st century AD.
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  • Al-Okhdood archeological city in Najran is the site of an ancient city in southern Arabia, founded in the 6th or 7th century B.C.  It is the site of the burning to death by the Jewish rulers  of 1,500 people who converted to Christianity in 525 B.C.  A campaign has been undertaken to include the historical location in the UNESCO World-Heritage list.
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  • Al-Okhdood archeological city in Najran is the site of an ancient city in southern Arabia, founded in the 6th or 7th century B.C.  It is the site of the burning to death by the Jewish rulers  of 1,500 people who converted to Christianity in 525 B.C.  A campaign has been undertaken to include the historical location in the UNESCO World-Heritage list.
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  • At Mada'in Saleh, wealthy Nabataens were buried in splendor in tombs carved in rock and long since robbed of valuables. The archeological site of Al-Hijr (Madain Saleh) is the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in Saudi Arabia.  It was a major center of the Nabataen civilization.  It is the largest Nabataen site south of Petra in Jordan.  It bears testimony to the Nabataen civilization between the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC and pre-Islamic period in the 1st century AD.
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  • The Golden Warrior wore a gold seal ring onf the sun god mitra on the middle finger of his right hand.  On his fourth finger he wore a gold mirror or solar ring.  Both are cast, engraved and polished.  Museum of Archeology, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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  • Golden Warrior headdress decoration stamped and engraved gold plaque that features mountains and snow leopard.  Museum of Archeology, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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  • Grinding stone at Al-Okhdood archeological city in Najran is the site of an ancient city in southern Arabia, founded in the 6th or 7th century B.C.  It is the site of the burning to death by the Jewish rulers  of 1,500 people who converted to Christianity in 525 B.C.  A campaign has been undertaken to include the historical location in the UNESCO World-Heritage list.
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  • Isolated tomb at Mada'in Saleh, wealthy Nabataens were buried in splendor in tomb carved in rock and long since robbed of valuables.               The archeological site of Al-Hijr (Madain Saleh) is the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in  Saudi Arabia.  It is a major center of the Nabataen civilization.  It is the largest Nabataen site south of Petra in Jordan.  It bears testimony to teh Nabataen civiliztkion between the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC and pre-Islamic period in the 1st century AD.
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  • Al-Okhdood archeological city in Najran is the site of an ancient city in southern Arabia, founded in the 6th or 7th century B.C.  It is the site of the burning to death by the Jewish rulers  of 1,500 people who converted to Christianity in 525 B.C.  A campaign has been undertaken to include the historical location in the UNESCO World-Heritage list.
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  • The Golden Warrior a 5th century B.C. Saka chieftain, was found splendidly preserved in 1969 in the Issiq burial mound near Almaty at the foot of the Tien shan mountains overlooking mount Talgar.  His elaborately decorated gold uniform and headdress contain a complex array of symbols representing military, political and spiritual  ideas.  Dr. Kemal A. Akishev led the excavation. Shown her is a reproduction by Krym Altynbekov.  Museum of Archeology, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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  • The front of the Golden Warrior's headdress combines the powerful symbols of a winged horse with the horns of a mountain goat.  It is made of wood and gold sheet and is carved, forged and engraved.  It measures 10 x 17.5 centimeters (4 x 7 inches) Museum of Archeology, Almaty Kazakhstan
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  • Al-Okhdood archeological city in Najran is the site of an ancient city in southern Arabia, founded in the 6th or 7th century B.C.  It is the site of the burning to death by the Jewish rulers  of 1,500 people who converted to Christianity in 525 B.C.  A campaign has been undertaken to include the historical location in the UNESCO World-Heritage list.
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  • Al-Okhdood archeological city in Najran is the site of an ancient city in southern Arabia, founded in the 6th or 7th century B.C.  It is the site of the burning to death by the Jewish rulers  of 1,500 people who converted to Christianity in 525 B.C.  A campaign has been undertaken to include the historical location in the UNESCO World-Heritage list.
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  • Kapat Sai, or Chalk Canyon, in the Manghstau region on the Caspian Sea is a rich archeological site for flint tools.
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  • The entrance to a sacred area within the complex at Al-Hijr.  The archeological site of Al-Hijr (Madain Saleh) is the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in Saudi Arabia.  It was a major center of the Nabataen civilization.  It is the largest Nabataen site south of Petra in Jordan.  It bears testimony to the Nabataen civilization between the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC and pre-Islamic period in the 1st century AD.
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  • The entrance to a sacred area within the complex at Al-Hijir.  The archeological site of Al-Hijr (Madain Saleh) is the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in  Saudi Arabia.  It is a major center of the Nabataen civilization.  It is the largest Nabataen site south of Petra in Jordan.  It bears testimony to teh Nabataen civiliztkion between the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC and pre-Islamic period in the 1st century AD.
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  • Only Arabian murals discovered to date are at al--Fau.  This one, of handmaiden with downcast eyes and diadem-wearing dignitary, perhaps a king, is of late period and testifies to artist's skill with color. National  Museum of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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  • Only Arabian murals discovered to date are at al--Fau.  This one, of handmaiden with downcast eyes and diadem-wearing dignitary, perhaps a king, is of late period and testifies to artist's skill with color. National  Museum of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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  • Lihyanite head of basalt from al-Is (Yenbo) 4th to 3rd c. B.C.
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  • Incised style rock art representing a human dancing. Jebel Burnus, Saudi Arabia
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  • Artifacts from Tarut.  Rim fragment of a carved steatite vessel depicting a snake and the head of a human figure.  3rd millennium B.C.
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  • Incised style rock art representing a human dancing. Hanakiyyah, Saudi Arabia
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  • Incised style rock art representing a human dancing. Jebel Burnus, al Jouf, Saudi Arabia
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  • Artifacts from Tarut.  Rim fragment of a carved steatite vessel depicting a snake and the head of a human figure.  3rd millennium B.C.
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  • Lihyanite head of basalt from al-Is (Yenbo) 4th to 3rd c. B.C.
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  • Incised style rock art representing an ostrich. Hanakiyyah, Saudi Arabia
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  • Incense burner, solid pottery, 10 cm high, Thaj, Saudi Arabia
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  • Bronze figure of a male dromadarian camel found in the temple at al Fau bears religious inscription in Musnad.  National Museum of Saudi Arabia. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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  • Incised style rock art representing a human hand. Hanakiyyah, Saudi Arabia
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  • Adobe houses and business in central Riyadh. Saudi Arabia
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  • Pottery artifact detail. Saudi Arabia
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  • Male camel head, pottery 5 cm long. Thaj, Saudi Arabia
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  • Qasr al-Masmak also know as Masmak Fort built in 1865 by King Abdullah III bin Faisal al-Saud.  1902 the fort was besieged by Emir Abdul Aziz bin Saud and taken back from al-Rashid.  Today is serves as a place where the modern state of Saudi Arabia emerged. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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  • Male head, pottery 6 cm high. Thaj, Saudi Arabia
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  • Bronze Weight representing a dolphin found at Qaryat al-Fau. National Museum of Saudi Arabia. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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  • Incense burner, solid pottery,Thaj, Saudi Arabia
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  • Gold jewelery from the Jawan tomb. National Museum of Saudi Arabia. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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  • Gold jewelery from the Jawan tomb. National Museum of Saudi Arabia. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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  • Gold jewelery from the Jawan tomb. National Museum of Saudi Arabia. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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  • Detail showing incense burner on the Hamra stone from Tayma, National Museum of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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  • Gravestone from Hijaz, Anthropomorphic stele,  400 B.C., National Museum of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
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  • Gold jewelery from the Jawan tomb. National Museum of Saudi Arabia. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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  • Local residents overlook discovery of a pot and camel fragment, Thaj, Saudi Arabia
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  • Pottery artifact from Qaryat al-Fau. National Museum of Saudi Arabia. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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  • Gravestone from Hijaz, Anthropomorphic stele,  400 B.C., National Museum of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
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  • Gold jewelery from the Jawan tomb. National Museum of Saudi Arabia. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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  • 1st c. B.C. Hijaz, Lihyanite sanctuary. National Museum of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
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  • Outside the city of Najran in the Asir mountains. The ancient  trade routes for Francincense ran through here to the Fertile Crescent. Saudi Arabia
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  • Stark on the desert floor at as Sarrar, a mammal bone has survived intact for some 15,000 centuries. Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
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  • At Rajajil in the north of Saudi Arabia, clusters of commemorative stones, recalling England's Stonehenge, face the sun.
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  • At Rajajil in the north of Saudi Arabia, clusters of commemorative stones, recalling England's Stonehenge, face the sun.
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  • Mada'in Saleh Station of the Hejaz Railway.  The complex built in 1907 consists of 16 buildings that include workshop (with a restored WWI-era engine), shells of other railway carriages and a rebuilt Turkish fort that served as a resting place for pilgrims traveling to Mecca. Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia
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  • Sumerian kearly dynastic 2,500 c. B.C. Tarut Island.  National Museum of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
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  • Location of the ancient site of Al-Ukhdood "city of seven wells".  Located at the start of the Frankincense Road running up through the Asir mountains. Najran, Saudi Arabia
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  • "Eye Stele" funerary stele, 5th - 4th c. BC, Sandstone, Tayma, Saudi Arabia
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  • Location of the ancient site of Al-Ukhdood "city of seven wells".  Located at the start of the Frankincense Road running up through the Asir mountains. Najran, Saudi Arabia
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  • Location of the ancient site of Al-Ukhdood "city of seven wells".  Located at the start of the Frankincense Road running up through the Asir mountains. Najran, Saudi Arabia
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  • To honor their dead, Lihyanites of Kingdom of Dedan carved lion reliefs above sandstone tombs in 600 B.C. Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia
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  • Hellenistic "Mother Goddess" (16 cm high) found at Thaj, Saudi Arabia
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  • Hellenistic "Mother Goddess" (16 cm high) found at Thaj, Saudi Arabia
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  • Igneous andesite in foreground was raw material for 300,000-year-old Dawadimi tool site on plain below. Saudi Arabia
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  • Mada'in Saleh Station of the Hejaz Railway.  The complex built in 1907 consists of 16 buildings that include workshop (with a restored WWI-era engine), shells of other railway carriages and a rebuilt Turkish fort that served as a resting place for pilgrims traveling to Mecca. Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia
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  • This gold and turquoise Bactrian camel ring dates from the Uysun tribal period in the 2nd century B.C. it was discovered a the Kargalin site.  Central State Museum, Almaty, Kazkahstan
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  • Saudi Archeologists Abduf Jawwad and S. Muard excavating a Neolithic house , 1st or 2nd c. B.C. within the ancient inner city at Thaj, Saudi Arabia
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  • Location of the ancient site of Al-Ukhdood "city of seven wells".  Located at the start of the Frankincense Road running up through the Asir mountains. Najran, Saudi Arabia
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  • "Eye Stele" funerary stele, 5th - 4th c. BC, Sandstone, Tayma, Saudi Arabia
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  • Stark on the desert floor at As Sarrar, a mammal bone has survived intact for some 15,000 centuries. Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
    83030506-33.jpg
  • At Rajajil in the north of Saudi Arabia, clusters of commemorative stones, recalling England's Stonehenge, face the sun.
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  • Large glazed dish, Hellenistic type found on Tarut Island.  National Museum of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh.
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  • Copper Lion weight from Qaryat al-Fau, National Museum Saudi Arabia.
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  • Sabaen inscription, 1st Century B.C., recording a military expedition led by Hietht of the Sukhaim family that governed Yemen at that time. National Museum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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  • This 5,000-Year-Old skull is believed to be that of a 30 -year -old Shaman.  Two holes were drilled in the skull when the person was 15 years old and he or she lived anothr 15 years after that.  The skull was found with a clay mask on its face in a niche in a dwelling in northern Kazakhstan.  It was discovered at the botai settlement site in the Atyrausky district. Northern Kazakhstan Regional historical Museum, Petropavl.
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  • Rock Art on Jebel Burnus, Al Jawf, Saudi Arabia
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  • A gravestone from the Hijaz, 500 B.C.  National Museum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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  • Bull, perhaps Texas Longhorn ancestor, was incised by pastoral tribe at Hanakiyyah several millennia B.C. (early neolithic) Saudi Arabia
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  • This small sacred bronze-cast lampion was used to burn oil and incense.  A squatting horseman wears a caftan and a helmet-like hat.  A movable horse figure with a bridle and a plaited mane has a hole in its back for a candle or torch.  The dish is 25.5 cnetimeters  (10 inches) in diameter and 18 centimeters (7 inches) high.  It dates from the 4th to the 3rd centuries B.C.  Central State Museum, Almaty, Kazkahstan
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  • This Skiff-style saddle is a reproduction of one found in the Semirechye area dating from the 9th to the 10th centruy A.D. and featuring a snow leopard head.  It was made in Almaty by the Koulmanov brothers.
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  • From ancient times through the middle ages, Petroglyphs, paintings and carvings show riders carrying banners - usually on horseback.  During the Middle Ages, a "cult of the banner" developed in Kazakhstan.  Today, some of the coutry's currency - the 50-Tenge note- carries tht image.  This petroglyph is at Shakbak-ata in the Manghystau region, Kazakhstan
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  • Large Hellenistic storage jar discovered on the island of Tarut, Saudi Arabia
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  • Large Hellenistic storage jar discovered on the island of Tarut, Saudi Arabia
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  • Fresco from Qaryat al-fau (Qaryat al-Faw) One of the most important pre-Islamic cities in Saudi Arabia.  Originally the kingdom of Kindah 4th c. BC to 4th c. AD  located on the northwest corner of the Rub al Khali.   National Museum of Saudi Arabia.            http://www.smb.museum/roadsofarabia/index.php?id=19&L=1
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  • To honor their dead, Lihyanites of Kingdom of Dedan carved lion reliefs above sandstone tombs in 600 B.C. Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia
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  • Studies show that the horse was first domesticated in Kazakhstan.  This horse skull, discovered in the north byu professor Victor Zaibert in 1986, shows the wear of a bridle on the teeth.  Carbon-14 testing puts it ace at 5,000 years.  Thousands of additional articfacts found over a 15 year excavation period at Botai settlement site along the iman-Burluk river in the Atyrausky district further substantiate this fact.  North Kazakhstan Regional Historical museum, Petropavl.
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  • This ocher pictograph depicts a ram.  Rams and mountain goats have both been used in many cultures over the centuries as symbols for fertility.  They also smbolize purity and a connection between heaven and earth, in part because they climb so high in the mountains where the air is pure.  It is also from the Eneolithic period at Akbaur Grotto
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  • Rock art stele, Sakaka, Saudi Arabia
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  • Rock art, Sakaka, Saudi Arabia
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  • To honor their dead, Lihyanites of Kingdom of Dedan carved lion reliefs above sandstone tombs in 600 B.C. Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia
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  • Ancient tribes used animals as symbols on their weapons, clothing and textile patterns.  The Saka dagger on the left, made of metoeorite iron, features Griffins and dates to the 3rd century B.C.  The center dagger features a horse, and the dagger at right a ram, both are bronze from the Semensk-Turbinsk culture in the 12th to 10th centuries B.C.  East Kazakhstan Regional Historical Museum, Oskemen
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  • Akbaur Grotto is inside a granite hill that resembles a pyramid.  A climb up 20 fee of natural, step-like folds symbolized stairs that connect the physical realm to the supernatural realm.  A natural opening in the grotto resembles the Shangiraq roof opening of a yrt.  As the sun makes its daily course across the heavens.  It rays enter the grotto and illuminate the 80 Pictographs depicting ancient Kazakh mythology and cosmology.
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  • Bronze age petroglyph at tamghali of a sun god riding a bull combines the symbol of fertility and the symbol of the source of life.
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  • Necklace of amber in the Folklore Museum, Arabic Studies, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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  • A detail on one panel of the Hamra stone symbolizing several religions-including Mesopotamian, Egyptian - bespeaks Taiman tolerance.  Saudi Arabian National Museum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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  • This Saka burial mound at Sergeyevka in northern Kazakhstan dates to the 5th Century B.C. This site is similar to the Issiq burial mound where the Golden Warrior was discovered.
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  • This bronze mirrow was found in a woman's grave of the Kichak (turkic) tribe in the Zevakinsky burial mound in eastern Kazakhstan.  it dates to the 9th or 10th century A.D. Its Runic inscription reads, "The noble lady loses her feelings of envy; her happy times are comin."  It refers to a supersitition that looking in a mirror takes away evil feelings.  East Kazakhstan Regional Historical Museum, Oskemen, Kazakhstan
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  • Kazakh legend tell that one of Noah's three sons settled near mount Qazygurt in southern Kazakhstan and created this circle of stones 40 meters (131 feet) in diameter with a cross in the center.  There is a similar circle in Turkey and another in the Sinai penninsula.  The conjecture is that after the great flood, Noah's sons set out with their families and each marked the place they chose to settle with this symbol.
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