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Countries and territories where Arabic is an official language
- AlgeriaStone artifacts dating to approximately 1.8 million years old were discovered at Ain Hanech in northern Algeria, representing the oldest archaeological…
- Saudi ArabiaHuman habitation in the Arabian Peninsula dates back to about 125,000 years ago. A 2011 study found that the first modern humans to spread east across Asia…
- DjiboutiCut stones dated about 3 million years old have been collected in the area of Lake Abbe. In the Gobaad plain, between Dikhil and Lake Abbe, the remains of…
- KuwaitThe Mesolithic era, around 8000 BC, left the first human traces in what is now Kuwait. Archaeologists found evidence of early habitation at site H3 and Bahra…
- TunisiaThe 9th century BC marked the founding of Carthage by Phoenician settlers from Tyre, a city now located in modern-day Lebanon.
- SudanSūdan was not merely a scribe who recorded history from a safe distance but a man who stood shoulder to shoulder with Maharaja Suraj Mal during the most…
- JordanThe oldest known evidence of hominid habitation in Jordan dates back at least 200,000 years. Scientists have found the world's oldest known evidence of…
- SyriaThe Natufian culture became the first to settle permanently around the 11th millennium BC. This shift marked the beginning of agriculture and cattle breeding…
- QatarThe Qatari peninsula juts into the Persian Gulf, a flat, low-lying plain of sand that stretches between latitudes 24 and 27 degrees north.
- United Arab EmiratesThe United Arab Emirates stretches across 83,600 square kilometers of the Arabian Peninsula. Its landscape shifts from salt pans along the Persian Gulf to…
- IraqThe fertile plains between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers fostered the rise of early cities, civilisations, and empires including Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia…
- IsraelThe Merneptah Stele, an ancient Egyptian monument dated to the late 13th century BCE, bears the earliest known archaeological reference to Israel as a…
- EgyptThe Nile River flows through a landscape that has supported human life for over ten thousand years. Evidence of rock carvings along the banks and in…