Madain Salih (Building a miracle)

Hi everybody...,,
during the recently last weeks, we got a great deal of information about art and ancient art in Egypt & Greek. Really I excited about those articles which talked about pyramids and sculpture. And how the archeologies tried to analyze each piece from that time in order to know

[ how those people lived,,,,

[ what customs they had,,,,

[ how those people were thinking and what their beliefs in life,,,,

really that was so amazing for moments I felt like I had been in that world. All that persuade me to know more about ancient art, so I read about another ancient art that is located in my country - Saudi Arabia -. It is the ancient art in Madain Salih. And here is some interesting information about it.
Madain Salih

it is located in the North West of Saudi Arabia near to Al-Madina ( a famous city in Saudi Arabia). It's old name is Alhijer. It considers as stone homes because people who lived there tried to dig mountains and created houses for them inside the mountains. They were super creative in doing that. They built amazing houses inside the mountains and lived there for many years. Actually, that was a pre-islamic archaeological site. A majority of the houses date from the Nabatean kingdom( 1st century B.C.E), another sources tell of an earlier statement of the area by the tribe of Thamoud in the 3rd millennium B.C.E. By the time, those site became tombs and temples for other tribes.

Jabal Ithlib
One of the Obvious features is a religious area, known as Jabal Ithlib. there is a sculpture within the Rock Hall, called a large open court, surrounded by two columns and some of the terraces on stone and because of North wind faced no sunlight, and some suggest this place is deep security and calm, making the place solemn, and give climbing a mountain fascinating scene to Madain Saleh.

The girl palace
Outside the palace painted girls and snakes in the form of a triangle to represent the keeper of the grave, and this is an example of the impact of Greek art Nabati, the building stopped suddenly for completing the construction of this tomb, which gives us a look at the technique of Construction, which was from top to bottom.

Actually, there are more of amazing archecultuer in Madain Salih, it's really one of the wonderfull ancint arts in the world.

Finally I hope you enjoyed that And there is much interesting information about Madain Salih

and If you are curious you can visit these links

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qFfST3xRzM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mada%27in_Saleh