Caption: Soldiers of the gallant garrison of the
Hegra Fortress.
Vetlesen also told Mohr about Major Holtermann and his mobilization of troops at
Hegra as he worried that his colleague there would shell Vaernes.
Hegra, Saudi ArabiaaACAOs first UNESCO World Heritage Site was the prominent southern capital of the Nabataeans.
Gems Winchester School came first, Asma Bint Al Nouman school was second and Al
Hegra School third.
The so-called "Zuhayr" inscription, the oldest dated Islamic Arabic writing ever recorded, was found on a rock face at Qa Al-Mutadil near
Hegra by archaeologists from King Saud University.
They can only be comprehended in their vastness in the field -- the immense walls around Tayma', the great rock cut faE*ades of
Hegra, the Haj water tanks and the Islamic period fortifications scattered across the Kingdom can only really be comprehended in situ.
There were considerable difficulties in presenting Madain Saleh, known as
Hegra in ancient times, because it is essentially unmovable architecture.
Summary: Al-Hijr, whose ancient Nabatean name is
Hegra, is the best known of the archaeological sites in Saudi Arabia.