Saudi Arabia unveils face of ancient Nabataean woman

[Judi Lynn]

Published 6th February 2023

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Written by
Dalya Al Masri, CNN
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Saudi Arabia is unveiling a reconstruction of the face of an ancient Nabataean woman after several years of work by historians and archaeologists.

The reconstruction, which is the first of its kind, is modeled on the remains of Hinat, a Nabataean woman who was discovered in 2015 in a 2,000-year-old tomb in Hegra, an archaeological site located in the ancient oasis city AlUla, northwestern Saudi Arabia.

Funded by the Royal Commission for AlUla, the reconstruction of Hinat began in the United Kingdom in 2019.

A multidisciplinary team of experts rebuilt bone fragments found in the tomb to reconstruct an image of her appearance using anthropological and archaeological data. A sculptor then used a 3D printer to bring her face to life.

The Nabataeans were an ancient Arab civilization that inhabited northern Arabia and the Levant over 2,000 years ago. The ancient Jordanian city of Petra was the capital of their kingdom, which became a vibrant and commercial international trading hub for spices, medicine and fabric, facilitated by the Nabataeans.

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Petra

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. nice pics

[ornotna]

2. I've been to Hegra

Back then it was known as just Madain Saleh. Used to live in SA back in the Sixties. We actually spent a week there on a Boy Scout camp-out. They didn't protect it as much as they do today and we were all over those tombs checking everything out. we weren't destructive but we had free access to just about everything. Very impressive place.

Not far from there are Ottoman forts and train stations of the Hejaz Railway with abandoned trains. These are the same trains and tracks that T.E. Lawrence and the Arab revolt attacked. We spent a day there. I still have a piece of that rail.

Thanks for the story, took me down memory lane.