An oasis in the Nefud with sandstone outcrops covered in carvings, on the old caravan road between Najd and the eastern Mediterranean. Jebel Umm Sinman carries the UNESCO listing and the images are the argument: men in headgear, birds, monkeys, gazelles, and two animals pulling a wheeled cart, all of it cut into rock in the middle of a sand desert. The reason is under your feet. Jubbah sits on the bed of an ancient lake at least 20 km by 4, which filled during the humid periods, and there are Middle Palaeolithic sites around it, so people have been coming to this water for a very long time and drawing what they saw. Georg August Wallin, a Finnish orientalist, came through in 1845 and counted 170 mud houses of the Al Ramal of the Shammar. About 90 km northwest of Ha’il.
Ha’il Province, Saudi Arabia
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