In this rich oasis resting 250 km south of the AlUla valley and surrounded by ancient citadels and abandoned settlements, the cross-disciplinary team, co-led by Dr. Guillaume Charloux and Dr. Rémy Crassard, CNRS researchers, and Munirah al Mushawah, archaeologist at the Royal Commission for AlUla, are enthusiastic about the initial discoveries. Here, gigantic animal traps, ancient tombs, and other prehistoric megaliths are side by side with an impressive pre-Islamic rampart 11 km long, together with villages, forts, and an old caravansary from the Islamic period. The environment that enabled such longstanding human presence is already the subject of geological and geomorphological studies. In future expeditions, zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical research will focus on the flora and fauna.