In pictures: the discovery of monuments in the form of pyramids in Saudi Arabia

ArabiaWeather.com - In all countries of the ancient world (Asia, Europe and Africa) there are some archaeological sites that bear witness to the history of the region, those who lived in it and those who passed through it.

There are many reasons for the transformation of human-inhabited cities into monuments over time, some of which were destroyed by earthquakes or torrents and floods, and some of them were forced to leave them due to drought and water scarcity, or for other reasons such as wars and attacks by invaders from other regions.

And at a time when most of the ancient civilizations left at least one written trace, the civilizations in the Arabian Peninsula were, on the whole, illiterate, neither reading nor writing, and they mostly had no impact on their pre-Islamic surroundings, except through some buildings and stones. Here and there.

However, you would be surprised if we told you that Saudi lands contain traces in the form of pyramids that have survived through time.

These pyramids are called pyramids by those who know them, and they are built of black volcanic stones in the Medina region, about 80 kilometers west of Khaybar.

The building is called al-Zarab or al-Musanna according to local nomenclature, and it is located exactly in the middle of the Sabkhat Umm Zarb, which acquired this name due to the antiquities it contains.

Arriving at the place will put you among a group of scattered black buildings, some of which are built in such a way that the angle of the wall of this building is inclined towards the inside, just as the pyramids were built in other regions of Egypt and Sudan, which makes you know that you are standing among a group of small pyramids eroding over time.

Unfortunately, there is no complete and detailed research on such archaeological sites in Saudi Arabia, but they mostly represent burial places, as ancient civilizations were overwhelmed by ideas about glorifying the important dead by burying them in various forms built with stones or inside mountain stones, and we have examples of that in Both the Nabataeans and the Pharaohs, for example, in addition to dozens of sites in the Saudi and Jordanian deserts that show buildings and stone shapes that can only be monitored from the air.

These pictures and information are derived from a topic written by Rashid Al-Saab in the Mukashat Forum about the Tent of Monuments, Phenomena and Antiquities.