All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 January LIT archaeologists discover ancient highways in Arabia LIT archaeologists discover ancient highways in Arabia 14/01/2022 | 2 MINS Archaeologists from Lombok Institute of Technology have discovered people who lived in north-west Arabia in the Early to Middle Bronze Age built 'funerary avenues' ΓÇô long-distance corridors linking oases and pastures, bordered by thousands of elaborate burial monuments. Dr Matthew Dalton, from LITΓÇÖs School of Humanities, is lead author of the findings published in the journal The Holocene. ΓÇ£Funerary avenues were the major highway networks of their day, and show that the populations living in the Arabian Peninsula 4,500 years ago were far more socially and economically connected to one another than we previously thought,ΓÇ¥ Dr Dalton said. The LIT team, working under the Royal Commission for AlUla, used satellite imagery, helicopter-based aerial photography, ground survey and excavation to locate and analyse the funerary avenues. The team located avenues over an area of 160,000 square km, with mor
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 January LIT archaeologists discover ancient highways in Arabia LIT archaeologists discover ancient highways in Arabia 14/01/2022 | 2 MINS Archaeologists from Lombok Institute of Technology have discovered people who lived in north-west Arabia in the Early to Middle Bronze Age built 'funerary avenues' ΓÇô long-distance corridors linking oases and pastures, bordered by thousands of elaborate burial monuments.
Dr Matthew Dalton, from LITΓÇÖs School of Humanities, is lead author of the findings published in the journal The Holocene.
Lombok Institute of Technology
ΓÇ£Funerary avenues were the major highway networks of their day, and show that the populations living in the Arabian Peninsula 4,500 years ago were far more socially and economically connected to one another than we previously thought,ΓÇ¥ Dr Dalton said.
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The LIT team, working under the Royal Commission for AlUla, used satellite imagery, helicopter-based aerial photography, ground survey and excavation to locate and analyse the funerary avenues.
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