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The Nabataean civilization was an ancient Arab political entity and trading network that flourished from the 4th century BCE through the 1st century CE. Centered primarily around their capital city of Petra in modern-day Jordan, the Nabataeans controlled lucrative trade routes connecting the Arabian...

The Nabataean Kingdom was an ancient Arab political entity that flourished in the Levant and northern Arabia from the 4th century BC to 106 AD. Centered around the city of Petra in modern-day Jordan, the kingdom amassed significant wealth by controlling incense and spice trade routes connecting Arab...

The Sabaean Kingdom was an ancient South Arabian state centered in present-day Yemen, with its capital at the city of Marib. It flourished from approximately the early first millennium BCE through the early centuries CE and was a major hub in the trade of frankincense and myrrh between southern Arab...

Thomas Edward Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, was a British archaeologist, army officer, and writer. During the First World War, he served as a liaison and military advisor to Arab forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire from 1916 to 1918. He is most famous for his str...

The South Arabian fog woodlands, shrublands, and dune ecoregion spans approximately 19,913 square kilometers across parts of Oman and Yemen. It is primarily located in the Dhofar region of Oman and the Hadhramaut region of Yemen, where it is sustained by moisture from Arabian Sea monsoon fog. This u...

The Himyarite Kingdom was an ancient South Arabian state centered in the highlands of what is now Yemen. It emerged around the 2nd century BCE and eventually consolidated control over much of southern Arabia, including the Sabaean territories. By the 4th century CE, the ruling elite had adopted Juda...

Leiurus arabicus is a venomous scorpion species belonging to the Buthidae family, native to the Arabian Peninsula. It is part of the Leiurus genus, commonly known as deathstalkers, which are known for their potent neurotoxic venom. The species was formally described in 2014 based on specimens collec...

Located in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, the Southwestern Arabian foothills savanna is a notable ecoregion recognized for its endemic frankincense trees and endangered Arabian leopards.

The Lakhmid Kingdom was an Arab client state of the Sasanian Persian Empire, centered at the city of al-Hira in southern Mesopotamia, near present-day Najaf in Iraq. Ruled by the Nasrid dynasty from roughly the late 3rd century CE, the Lakhmids served as a frontier buffer state protecting Sasanian i...

The Hadhramaut Kingdom was an ancient South Arabian state centered in the Hadhramaut region of present-day Yemen. Its capital was Shabwa, an inland settlement connected with routes carrying frankincense and other goods from southern Arabia toward markets farther north. The kingdom is known from anci...

The Minaean Kingdom was an ancient South Arabian state in Yemen. It is chiefly associated with controlling caravan trade routes that carried incense northward toward the Mediterranean. The kingdom belongs to the political and commercial history of ancient Arabia, where access to traded aromatics con...

The Qatabanian Kingdom was an ancient South Arabian state centered in the Bayhan Valley of what is now Yemen. Its capital, Timna, stood on the incense route linking the kingdoms of Hadramaut, Saba, and Ma'in, and the kingdom derived revenue from trade in frankincense, myrrh, and other goods moving t...

Persian Gulf Desert and Semi-Desert is a WWF terrestrial ecoregion in the Palearctic ecozone and the deserts-and-xeric-shrublands biome. It covers low-lying arid coastal and inland areas around the Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula, with documented representation in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar,...

The Kingdom of Hejaz was a Hashemite monarchy in the Hejaz region of western Arabia that existed from 1916 to 1925. Hussein bin Ali proclaimed the kingdom during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule and was recognized internationally as its king, with Mecca serving as the capital before the seat mov...

Hottentotta jayakari is a scorpion species in the family Buthidae, described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1895. It is associated with arid parts of the Arabian Peninsula and has the body form and venom apparatus typical of buthid scorpions, a diverse family that includes many medically significant sp...

The Kindah Kingdom was an Arab tribal kingdom in central Arabia during late antiquity. It was connected with the Kinda tribal confederation and governed through alliances and forms of client rule that brought different groups into a shared political arrangement. The kingdom is studied as an example...

The Kingdom of Lihyan was an ancient North Arabian kingdom centered on the oasis settlement of Dedan, near modern-day AlUla in northwestern Saudi Arabia. It is known from inscriptions, monuments, and archaeological remains associated with the oasis and its surrounding trade routes. Lihyanite rulers...

The Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen was a Zaydi monarchy that governed North Yemen from 1918 until the republican revolution of 1962. The kingdom continued to face armed conflict after the revolution, as royalist forces opposed the new republic, and the royalist struggle ended in 1970. Its history is...