Huge 4,000-year-old fortification discovered in Saudi Arabia

Cosmos magazine ^ | January 10, 2024 | Evrim Yazgin

[SunkenCiv]

Archaeologists have found a massive ancient fortification enclosing the Khaybar Oasis in the North Arabian Desert. It is one of the two largest fortifications in Saudi Arabia.

Oases in the region have been settled by human populations for 4,000–5,000 years. An oasis is a small patch of vegetation in the desert. Fed by sources of freshwater such as underground rivers and high water tables mean these areas can become vibrant, lush sanctuaries for plant and animal life.

Human-built aquifers and channels can help irrigate these areas making them suitable for long-term settlement...

Fortifications at Khaybar once stretched for 14.5 km and were between 1.7 and 2.4 m thick, according to field surveys and remote sensing data. The fortification walls would have been up to 5 metres high. It would have enclosed a territory measuring nearly 1,100 hectares.

The team of scientists estimate the settlement's walls were construction between 2250 and 1950 BCE, based on radiocarbon dating of samples collected during excavations.

Today, 4,000 years later, less than half the walls length and 74 bastions (protruding structures intended for defensive fire) remain preserved.

Numbers of walled oases have been found in north-western Arabia dating back to the Bronze Age (3300–1200 BCE). Fortified settlements became colossal in this time period, including the European "megaforts."

[SunkenCiv]

© Khaybar Longue Durée Archaeological Project, M. Bussy & G. Charloux

[SunkenCiv]

[george76]

What the “Khaybar” Chant Really Means..

Khaybar, O Jews, the army of Muhammad will return.

Since the moslems chant it in Arabic.. Progressive, woke, DEI.. Karens have no idea what they are saying.. a call for genocide of all Jews..

https://gellerreport.com/2017/12/khaybar-chant-means.html/

[Tell It Right]

Are these the Medianites from Genesis 37 (took Joseph to Egypt as a slave)? I believe that was near Khaybar Arabia.

[SunkenCiv]

Probably not, they could have been anyone, and given the era of this structure, the population of the builders probably died out earlier. And it’s Midianites.

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Midianite

[bitt]

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[Steve Van Doorn]

When Muhammad left Mecca on what was the Hijrah (journey to Yathrib (Medina)) which some Muslims stayed in Mecca (important.) The group of about one hundred people headed for Yathrib where the Banu Nadir (officially stated as Jewish people) lived.

Banu Nadir allies where all killed in the battle of Trench. Muhammad personally executed up to 900 prisoners of war in one day. Latter the Banu Nadir where all enslaved or killed after the Battle of Khaybar. After the battle He asked a women to cook a meal for him that he once trusted which Muhammad just finished killing her whole family. Of course she poisoned his food which did ultimately kill him 3 years latter

Banu Nadir traveled to Khaybar because that was the main Jewish(officially) settlement in the area after Mecca.

Today I have a different perspective. Mecca and the surrounding area where not Jewish. They where more likely Amaru we incorrectly call Phoenicians or Babylonian Mystics. As the Black stones and the Kaaba fits the Babylonian Mystics then Judah(Judaism.) It was the Amaru(Phoenicians) that migrated. Judah(Judaism) were put into slavery.

The ONLY redeeming aspect of Muhammad IMO. He was very much against human sacrifices. Which was taken place at this time around Mecca. That was the Amaru/Babylonian Mystics not Judaism.

[JParris]

All well and good.

But seems unrelated to original post about ancient fortifications built 2500-2600 years before ol’ Mohammad was born.

[Steve Van Doorn]

I’m referencing the Punic people 15th Century BC which fits close to this time period they set.

[rodguy911]

Human-built aquifers and channels can help irrigate these areas making them suitable for long-term settlement...

Sounds so familiar. A little over 10 years ago Qdaffi had promised to turn portions of the Libyan desert into a garden.It was due to the massive undergroundnfresh water that flowed through the area.

When Soros decided to destroy the country since Qdaffi was going to secure the dinar with gold,he got hillary,terrorists et all to do the job. One of the things they did was to destroy the flow and the stream of the underground fresh water source which was massive. They bombed it to oblivion just like they did above ground.

Soros wanted to keep the Africans down. He wanted them barefoot and broke.

[AdmSmith]

These mysterious stone structures in Saudi Arabia are older than the pyramids
Researchers think the region's “mustatils” form the oldest ritual landscape in the world. But exactly what they were for isn't clear. The mysterious structures dotted around the desert in northwestern Saudi Arabia – called "mustatils" from the Arabic word for "rectangle" – are about 7,000 years old. That’s much older than expected, and about 2,000 years older than either Stonehenge in England or the oldest Egyptian pyramid.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/mysterious-stone-structures-saudi-arabia-are-older-pyramids-rcna805