Check Out This Amazing Biblical ‘Forgotten City’ Just Unearthed By Archeologists

The new sites could tell us a whole lot about the ancient civilizations.

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00:00 This is the long-forgotten kingdom of the Dadan-Olehiyon people, found in northwest

00:08 Saudi Arabia, and recently archaeologists began excavating five new sites related to

00:13 the 2,000-year-old civilizations.

00:15 Dadan was one of the largest at the time, even being mentioned in the Old Testament

00:19 of the Bible.

00:20 The kingdoms ruled the area for some 900 years, until around 100 CE.

00:25 And now the researchers say these new discoveries will give them better clues about these ancient

00:29 people's lives, economics, and religion.

00:32 The sites they're excavating include an Islamic area, a temple, a residential area,

00:37 and a cemetery, giving the team much more diversity with regards to unearthing the civilization's

00:41 customs and culture, as previous excavations have limited them to very particular areas.

00:46 Now they're hoping to fill in the blanks and figure out when each site was built, creating

00:50 a cultural chronology for the ancient excavation, which will hopefully provide the archaeologists

00:55 a much better view of what life may have been like 2,000 years ago, when the kingdom was

00:59 still flourishing.

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