“AlUla dates back to the Nabataean era,” says Ahmed. “It was one of the main trade centres along the Incense Road, connecting Arabia to the Mediterranean.” Its strategic location made it ...

Such plenty, watered within these oases, encouraged people to settle. By at least 2,500 years ago, the AlUla valley served as a transit point for long-distance trade. Archaeologist Abdulrahman ...

5. Ancient Rituals-Yoga on the Incense Road Reconnect with your mind, body, and soul by practicing yoga on the historic Incense Road. This peaceful yoga session allows you to stretch and meditate ...

The museum of the Incense Road will be the “world’s first museum dedicated to the millennia-old network of major land and sea trading routes, celebrating AlUla’s cultural legacy as a place ...

At the heart of the partnership is Dadan-once the capital of the Lihyanite and Dadanite civilizations, and a critical stop on the Incense Road, an ancient trade network that stretched from India ...

Photograph by Matthieu Paley 9 min read The ancient city of Dadan, in a remote corner of North West Arabia on the famed Incense Road of antiquity, is mentioned in three bibles, yet little is known ...

And that these kingdoms controlled the trade along the Incense Road — the collective name given to a web of trade routes leading from southern Arabia, where frankincense was harvested ...

This year, with the addition of the newly invigorated Incense Road section, connecting AlJadidah to Old Town, the offering in this new buzzing thoroughfare will attract locals and visitors alike.

A strategic hub along various ancient trade routes, the city became synonymous with the Incense Road, a network stretching from the Mediterranean to India.

Frankincense and myrrh, aromatic resins from spindly trees, were once highly prized from Rome to India, and deemed essential for a host of uses ranging from religious to cosmetic to medicinal ...

Bookings for a newly unveiled boutique hotel that takes inspiration from the neighboring mud and stone houses in AlUla, opened Friday, adding 30 rooms towards the 5,000 plus keys expected in the ...