Initial surveys reveal that over a six-acre area, a fortified town-constructed between 2,400 and 2,000 B.C. and occupied for about a millennium.

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of an ancient Bronze Age town under an oasis in Saudi Arabia’s Madinah province that was slowly occupied from 2400 BC. Researchers say the ancient town, dubbed al-Natah, was a city transforming from a nomadic cattle-herding lifestyle into a complex urban settlement.

Archaeologists have made an extraordinary discovery in Saudi Arabia. Under the Khaybar oasis in the Madinah province, they have identified traces of an ancient Bronze Age city that existed around 2400 B.