The Arts of Ancient South Arabia

A superb collection of spectacular and varied pre-Islamic Arabian artefacts held by The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, many published here for the first time.

Between the third millennium BCE and the third century CE the Arabian Peninsula lay at the center of maritime trading routes between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean. A series of remarkable archaeological excavations over the past forty years have enabled a complete reassessment of ancient Arabia’s wider history—now further illumin...