[SunkenCiv]

The watchtower discovery

Image Credit : Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities

[sphinx]

That looks too large and too prominent to have been buried and forgotten, sitting as it does on a bluff overlooking the river. This is a part of the world with ruins everywhere. Is this a case of something that was known but unidentified, but enough digging has now been done to contextualize and date it?

[bert]

Is Gabal an alternate spelling of Jebel?

Meaning mount or hill?