1500 Tombs of the 3rd millennium BC discovered in Yemen [Archives:2000/49/Front Page]

A French archaeological 8-member team directed by Frank Braemer has recently announced that it obtained very new scientific results during a field campaign on the site of Jabal Jidran in the desert 80 km north-east of Marib.
The site contains more than 1500 tombs necropolis, belonging to the beginning of the third millennium BC. The area covered by the necropolis is more than 8 km long and 2.5 wide and it is for the first time a systematic 3 square km map of such a necropolis was drawn.
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