Arabia Archive

'Harmal' Plant Was Used In Smoking And Inhaling In Arabia As Early As 2,700 Years Ago

‘Harmal’ Plant Was Used For Smoking And Inhaling In Arabia As Early As 2,700 Years Ago

AncientPages.com | June 4, 2025

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study provides the earliest evidence to date for the use of the medicinal and psychoactive plant Peganum harmala —also known as rue or

Oldest Evidence To Date: 80,000-Year-Old Stone Blades Of Homo Sapiens Found In Arabia

Archaeology

Oldest Evidence To Date: 80,000-Year-Old Stone Blades Of Homo Sapiens Found In Jebel Faya, Arabia

AncientPages.com | February 19, 2025

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers led by Dr. Knut Bretzke from Friedrich Schiller University in Jena have presented the oldest evidence of systematic stone blade production on

Archaeology

Newly Discovered Papyrus Reveals An Intriguing And Gripping Criminal Case From The Roman Empire

AncientPages.com | January 29, 2025

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna, and Hebrew University of Jerusalem reveal a unique papyrus from the Israel Antiquities

Tombs flanking a funerary avenue in the al Ha’it Oasis.

Archaeology

Ancient Highways Unearthed In Arabia

AncientPages.com | January 14, 2022

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The desert regions of the Arabian Peninsula and Levant are crisscrossed by innumerable pathways. Across large areas of northwest Arabia, many of these