“We can now link the Camel Site to a period in prehistory when the pastoral populations of northern Arabia created rock art and built large stone structures called mustatil. The Camel Site is therefore part of a wider pattern of activity where groups frequently came together to establish and mark symbolic places.”

–Researchers from the Saudi Ministry of Culture, the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, the CNRS, and King Saud University in a paper that says life-size camel sculptures in Saudi Arabia that were originally thought to be 2,000 years old actually date back 8,000 years, when the now arid deserts of northern Saudi Arabia were “a savannah-like grassland scattered with lakes and trees.” [Daily Mail]