The road to life in the Arabian desert might once have been paved with the dead.
In what is now Saudi Arabia, archaeologists have revealed an impressive network of lost highways, marked by human tombs, that link one oasis to another.
To the right is a more sparse terrain, dotted by various types of pendant structures, all of which run parallel to a series of roads in between, which lead to a water source.Using satellite imagery and on-the-ground investigations, archaeologists working in Saudi ArabiaIn one county alone, known as Khaybar, researchers counted nearly 10,000 drystone funerary structures, and most of these were located near permanent water sources.
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