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Saudi Arabia, Houses in the Mountains or Escarpment

notsohairyjerry — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:23:16 +0000

Asir Province, Saudi Arabia. During past centuries some inhabitants of this area built their home into the side of the escarpment making it difficult for aggressors to attack them. These houses needed to be supplied with necessities which were lowered by pulley from above by friends and neighbors.

Queen Of Sheba Mountain, Khamis Mushayt, Saudi Arabia

notsohairyjerry — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:59:18 +0000

Oral tradition in this area of Saudi Arabia (near Khamis Mushayt) report that the Queen of Sheba (now Yemen) traveled past here 3000+ years ago on her way to visit and negotiate and marry King Solomon from the Old Testament. Solomon sent word to her to stop as he was not ready to see her. The Queen is said to have stopped here for two years and waited until Soloman called for her. Two years does not mean what it means in western culture, maybe 5 years or 3 months? All of this is oral tribal history without calendars and watches.
There are artifacts of some type of settlement still present at the base of the ‘hill’ and something on the top, an altar for worshiping? In any case the site is guarded by the antiquities police so no one can look around.

Mud house detail

notsohairyjerry — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:16:53 +0000

Mud Home Asir Province

notsohairyjerry — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:11:28 +0000

Mud home Asir Province, Saudi Arabia. Located in village near Khamis Mushayt

Mud house neer Abha, Capitol of Asir Province. House has deep well for water to grow trees and maintain garden.

Images from Saudi Arabia – Rock House Sealed with Mud – Ancient Watch Tower

notsohairyjerry — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:23:53 +0000

New stone/mud house next to older mud house probably built many decades ago. Straw roofed round building in foreground likely a pen for goats or sheep. Significant is an ancient tower near by which was common near the land owned by an Arab tribe (family). These towers were used to alert inhabitants living and working nearby that an ‘enemy’ or threat was approaching.
These mud houses are cool in the daytime having captured the cool desert night air. The walls are very thick and repel heat. Days often reach 130 F. Nights can see temperatures fall to 50 degrees.

Stone and Mud Houses in old village with ancient watch tower, Asir Province

Straw huts on the Jizan Plain near the Red Sea. Temperature here can reach 140F in daytime with humidity at near 100%. Village is located direcly West of Asir Province at the bottom of the escarpment or nearly 8,000 ft below the towns of Abha and Khamis Mushayt.

Straw huts similar to those in Africa directly across the Red Sea to the West.