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Umm Senman Mountain - Hail Province

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Umm Senman Mountain, Jubbah Saudi Arabia
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Located in Jubbah, around 100 km from Hail, Saudi Arabia, Umm Senman Mountain is one of the most prominent archeological sites in the region. This mountain is famous for the drawings and inscriptions that have been engraved on it. According to archeologists, these engravings date back to 7000 BC.

Landscape 

The mountain gets its name ‘Umm Senman’ from its unique appearance, which resembles a camel with two humps. Surrounded by sand dunes, it is situated in the middle of the Nafud desert and spreads over an area of 40 km sq. There are almost 2000 animal drawings on this mountain, including 262 drawings of human beings. The most popular and clearly visible out of these drawings is that of a lion.

History

According to some historians, these inscriptions are from different historical eras, some of which are also Thamudic (when the people of Thamud roamed the land). The large human figures with ambiguous faces represent the Neolithic age, whereas the Chalcolithic age can be traced through goat and animal drawings. 

Some of the drawings also date back to the Iron Age, which includes drawings of warriors with their bayonets, along with leopards, ostriches, and palm trees. Last but not least are the famous drawings of horses pulling carts that date back to the third millennium BC or even earlier. All and all, this archeological site is a history buff’s dream place where they can find references to virtually every significant historical era in the Arabian peninsula

 

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Umm Senman Mountain, Jubbah Saudi Arabia

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03/06/2019 00:13

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One of the mountains of the Hail region, the mountain is located in the city of Jubbah, which is 103 kilometers northwest of Hail, and is located specifically to the west of the city of Jubbah, in the middle of the Nafud desert. The mountain has a historical and archaeological status in the Arabian Peninsula in general and the Hail region in particular, as it embraces many very old inscriptions, drawings and formations. It was known and used before Newton, and on the other hand, the Europeans see that Newton is the discoverer of the law, and the European and American dispute will remain about this rock until it is studied in a detailed scientific way, despite this, they agree that the rock is priceless; However, she did not find anyone interested in her scientifically so far. Also, Mount Umm Sinman embraces inscriptions that are said to date back to the Stone Age, some of which are Thamudic, and there are rock formations with clear features on the mountain, the most famous of which is the clearly visible figure of the lion, and it also carries in its display formations of the faces of men wearing turbans and some say that they are crowns, and these formations and many others Among the animal drawings, such as birds, monkeys, and ibex, were called by the people of Jebba in the past, guards of Umm Sinman, and the mountain also embraced an inscription of the oldest x-ray image of a person in the world, and this indicates the ancient history of Mount Umm Sinman and the civilization that it contained. The mountain embraces the inscriptions of the stone age man, and the mountain recorded About 5431 Thamudic inscriptions, and 1944 drawings of different animals, including 1378 drawings of camels of different sizes and shapes, and the number of human drawings reached 262 drawings. The inscriptions in Mount Umm Sinman show the man who lived in the stone ages, and some of the ways and systems of daily life that were applied and lived by the man of those ages. And inscriptions distinguished by their artistic formations and their various expressive themes. The drawings and inscriptions also indicate the techniques of stone tools that ancient man used to dig his various and rich written drawings and inscriptions. Perhaps among the most important drawings and rock inscriptions that can be seen in Jabal Umm Sinman are those that represent the early pattern of engraving and engraving, dating back to the seventh millennium BC. It dates back to the seventh millennium BC, and it shows the completed human forms with slender arms and the protrusion of the compact body at the fold of the thigh and the appearance of the forms of women with braided hair hanging down, and those with ornate skirts and the emergence of animal shapes such as camels, undomesticated horses, goats, and various groups of forms of sheep, cats and dogs that were used in the hunt. The second period dates back to the Thamudic era, and its most prominent drawings and rock inscriptions are the domestication of camels, where scenes of warriors appear on their backs with spears in their hands, and ibex, leopards and ostriches appear, in addition to symbolic forms and palm trees.[3][4]
Debora Tabungar

Debora Tabungar

05/11/2018 09:13

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The rock arts and the rocks formation are amazing. The figures of human and animals from 15,000 years that are drawn on the rocks are magnificent. We learned so many things when we visited this UNESCO world heritage site.
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05/11/2018 09:13

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The rock arts and the rocks formation are amazing. The figures of human and animals from 15,000 years that are drawn on the rocks are magnificent. We learned so many things when we visited this UNESCO world heritage site.

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