Prehistoric Stone Structures in Saudi Arabia

We visited the stone structures TWHS on our road trip around Saudi Arabia in 2024. We covered 2 of the 10 proposed locations and passed by several others.

Harrat Khaybar
Of the 10 proposed locations, 5 are Harrat (lava stone fields). When you look at our map with the dots it feels like no problem to find them, but it’s actually like finding a needle in a haystack. Nevertheless we are quite sure we (and I mean our fantastic navigator Randi) found the Harrat Khaybar location. After some small roads and a short hike up to a plateau we reached an area with a clearly visible wall, countless stone piles, some with an additional stone wall and stone circles. From the road it’s an unmarked hike and there is also no path. Some rocks are loose, so be careful.

Al-Faw
The Al-Faw loctation could be easily accessible once the site is open, but currently it’s in the mountain behind the fence. We therefore did not even try to visit

Rajajil standing stones
The main component and reason we added another 700km driving from Hail was the Rajajil standing stones. To visit them, we had to drive all the way up north, close to Sakaka. The the road off route 80 was blocked due to roadworks and as it is the only way to get there we needed to go offroad for an adventurous 300m.

When we arrived, we found a parking with a visitor center, but …