Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — The Heritage Fee has accomplished an archaeological survey and excavation venture at an archaeological web site within the city of Al-Quraynah, northwest of Riyadh. The venture resulted within the discovery of quite a few earthenware items and stone instruments, some courting again 50,000 years to the Center Stone Age.
The survey and excavation work additionally revealed round buildings that intently resemble tombs courting again to the third and second millennium BC. In addition they recognized an archaeological highway extending from the valley to the highest of the plateau at Al-Qurainah, all the way in which to Riyadh.
This discovery is likely one of the fruits of the Al-Yamamah initiative launched by the Heritage Fee to redraw the archaeological map of the Riyadh area and surrounding areas. This initiative entails conducting exact surveys utilizing superior analysis strategies to doc beforehand unexplored websites and analyze patterns of human settlement throughout totally different eras, reflecting the depth of the area’s cultural and civilizational heritage.
The survey and excavation course of was carried out with the participation of a bunch of Saudi specialists, as a part of its efforts to survey and excavate nationwide heritage websites, protect them, and promote them, whereas leveraging this nationwide heritage portfolio as an essential cultural and financial useful resource for the Kingdom.
The venture sought to assemble as a lot data as attainable to reinforce scientific research on the Quraynah web site to know the positioning’s cultural and historic sequence, in addition to to establish architectural types and development strategies, and to doc archaeological findings that resulted from the venture’s work.
The Heritage Fee indicated that its archaeological survey and excavation works throughout varied areas of Saudi Arabia is a continuation of its efforts to protect nationwide heritage property. It defined that the Kingdom’s cultural heritage is an extension of the successive civilizations that settled on its lands all through the ages. This displays the Kingdom’s richness in heritage, cultural, and historic assets.