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The Lonely Castle

The Lonely Castle

The remote tomb known as Qasr al-Farid is carved right into a giant Saudi Arabian boulder.

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Row of rock-cut tombs (WikiCommons)

Al Ula, Saudi Arabia

Mada'in Saleh

Ancient Nabatean caravan city filled with desert tombs.

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Mud-brick houses

Al Ula, Saudi Arabia

Al 'Ula

Within the Saudi Arabian desert lies a 2,000-year-old ghost town made of stone and mud.

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Bidah Valley, Saudi Arabia

Marble Village of Dhee Ayn

Village of slate houses, built on a white marble outcrop.

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The site of the tomb in the 1920s

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Eve's Tomb

An archaeological site believed to be the burial place of the "mother of us all."

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Moses with tablets of the Ten Commandments, painting by Rembrandt, 1659. (Wikimedia Commons)

Mount Horeb

Site where Moses may have received the Ten Commandments.

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Al Bayad, Saudi Arabia

Meribah's Split Rock

An enormous split rock which believers hold to be the rock that Moses hit with his staff.

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Al Wahbah Crater

Al Wahbah Crater

This giant volcanic crater holds its very own field of salt.

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