Long ignored by Saudi Arabia, the ancient columns of Al-Rajajil are embraced as part of the area’s rich pre-Islamic history.

For centuries, the history of pre-Islamic Arabia was told through sources written long after the events they described. But scattered across the deserts of Syria, Jordan, and northern Arabia, tens of ...

About 12,000 years ago, high up on a cliff in the desert of northern Arabia, an artist—or perhaps artists—was hard at work. Standing on a narrow ledge and with primitive tools, they engraved into the ...