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Saudi Arabia has decided to capitalize on its pre-Islamic, little-known yet spectacular heritage. GEO was able to discover on site archaeological treasures forgotten for centuries in the sands of the desert. An exhibition at the Institut du monde arabe in Paris will soon pay tribute to them.
In the dry half-light of their stone-carved chambers, 'Awtu,' Amat, Hînat, Kamkam and the others waited a long time, stretched out on their backs on the ground, legs stretched out, arms sometimes slightly bent, body anointed. organic ointments, mixture of vegetable oil and resin. Sometimes naked, sometimes covered with a thin goat or camel skin dyed red, then with two layers of unbleached linen fabrics also coated and held in place by linen straps, and topped with a thick leather shroud ... To their sides, the remains of coffins, also made of leather, and decorated with shells. But also date necklaces, glass beads, wooden combs, bronze bells, bone containers, coins, arrowheads… Everyday objects. They waited for centuries, while, outside, day after day, the heat of the desert boiled the sand and their dozens of tombs with ocher-red facades, chiseled in the mountains of soft sandstone, let themselves be splashed by the sun.
Sedentary caravanners, the inhabitants of Hijrâ, better known under the name Hegra that the Romans later gave it, in what is today the region of Al Ula, in the north-west of Saudi Arabia, were members of the Arab tribe of the Nabataeans. Their capital was Petra, some 600 km further north, and Hegra the southern border of their empire. Enriched on the route of myrrh, frankincense and other aromatics, between the Gulf of Aden (present-day Yemen) and the ports of the Mediterranean, the Nabataeans of Hegra harbored an immodest hope: to remain visible even in death. In their stone cases, indifferent to the demonic heat which overwhelms the bodies of the living, barely tempered by the light breeze of the wind, they nevertheless crossed the ages forgotten by all.
But suddenly they are back in the light. This region of the world, which will be the subject, from October 9 until January 19, 2020 at the Arab World Institute, of an exhibition entitled “Al Ula, wonder of Arabia, the oasis of 7000 years of history ”will open to foreign visitors soon, the Saudi kingdom intending to make people forget its bad reputation (see our article“ Saudi Arabia's plans to become a tourist El Dorado ”).
Treasures that still hold many secrets
Archaeologists have found in Al Ula an extraordinary playground. In addition to the countless Neolithic rock engravings that dot the valley, we find traces of the mysterious Dadanite and Lihyanite civilizations that preceded the Nabataeans in the region between the 6th and the second century BC. And of course Hegra, built from the 1st century BC. About a thousand hectares, closed to the public since the end of 2017 and for a few more months. The Franco-Lebanese Laïla Nehmé, 53, director of research at the CNRS, has been leading the Franco-Saudi scientific mission there since 2002. Apart from the British Charles Doughty and the French Antonin Jaussen and Raphaël Savignac, from the French Biblical and Archaeological School in Jerusalem , who explored the Nabataean city at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, as well as the Saudi Directorate of Antiquities itself in the 1980s, rare are those who, before her, had studied this "small city". sister ”of Petra and its surroundings. These last years have allowed “Doctor Laïla”, as the Saudis of Al Ula affectionately call him, to advance on the understanding of the formation of the Arabic writing, born from the Nabataean, to specify the route of the rampart of the ancient city, the content of the fauna and flora of the time, the organization of the city and also to better understand the construction techniques of the famous necropolises.
And to Hegra, what treasures! Several dozen tombs have a decorated facade there, as in Petra, but, a notable difference, sometimes include patterns, hollowed out in the soft ferruginous sandstone: animals, jellyfish or sphinxes, rosettes, etc. And a third of them display a cartridge in Nabataean showing how seriously this population took the legal rules surrounding the use or transfer of their graves. Archaeologists have also found small alabaster pots, probably from southern Arabia and containing residues still being analyzed; colorful ceramics, indicating the city's link with the Mediterranean; shellfish and fish bones, from the Red Sea; fragments of crockery and beads, of glass or earthenware, from various Middle Eastern regions.
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