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Jabal Ikmah, often referred to as an ‘open-air library’, contains hundreds of inscriptions and pictograms engraved and carved in relief on the rock faces and boulders of a gorge, not far from Dadan, the seat of the Dadanite and Lihhyanite kingdoms, at AlUla, Saudi Arabia. Most inscriptions are written in the Dadanitic script and language and date to the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Jabal Ikmah is featured on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.
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