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Landmark Middle East archaeological

Hegra (Mada'in Salih)

100 BCE – 106 CE · 206 years

Nabataean rock-cut tombs in the Arabian desert, the southern sister city of Petra in Saudi Arabia

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Who held this ground

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Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–200 BCE)
  2. Nabatean Kingdom (100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1 BCE–700 CE)
  4. Abbasid Caliphate (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Fatimid Caliphate (1000 CE–1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Ayyubid Sultanate (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Mamluk Sultanate (1279 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1530 CE–1815 CE)
  9. Ottoman Empire (1880 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  10. Hejaz (1920 CE) Border precision: Defined
  11. Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd (1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  12. Saudi Arabia (1938 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 100 BCE and 106 CE.

53 BCE Roman–Parthian Wars 37 BCE Masada 19 BCE Western Wall 19 BCE Western Wall Tunnels 66 CE Jewish–Roman Wars

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