Four Riyadh heritage sites that define Saudi Arabia s national story arabnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from arabnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
JEDDAH: For more than 500 years, the remains of the mud-brick city of Diriyah bore mute witness to the resilience, determination and the vicissitudes of fortune of the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula. Constructed along a curve on the outskirts of Riyadh, on an oasis that split from the banks of Wadi Hanifa, Diriyah’s mud-brick walls once enclosed a thriving desert city
RIYADH: Relics hidden beneath the remains of Ghasiba reveal a once 32,000 square meter-wide fortress that guarded the first known rule of the Al-Saud royal family. Not many people know that Ghasiba District, founded in 1446, was the ruling center of the Al-Saud family for more than 300 years, even before the UNESCO World Heritage site of At-Turaif in Diriyah was established as
RIYADH: For generations, historians and writers have unwittingly perpetuated the myth that the First Saudi State, forerunner of the modern-day Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was founded in the year 1744. In fact, as a new reappraisal of the origins of the Kingdom reveals, they were 17 years out. There is no doubt that the events of 1744, the year in which Imam Mohammed ibn Saud of
Diriyah: past, present and future arabnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from arabnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.