- A vast 4,500-year-old network of ‘funerary avenues’ lined with well-preserved Bronze Age tombs has been discovered at Al-‘Ula and Khaybar in Saudi Arabia.
- Around 18,000 tombs have been unerthed where either single individuals or small groups were buried. The experts have described the burials as ‘pendant’ tombs because they resemble circular pieces of jewellery attached to a chain, or ‘tail’.
- The large number of tombs show that the populations living in the Arabian Peninsula 4,500 years ago were more socially and economically connected to one another than previously thought.
- Funerary avenues are long-distance ‘corridors’ linking oases and pastures. They get their name because they’re bordered by thousands of elaborate burial monuments.
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