Madain Qom Saleh
In the past, it was known as Al-Hijr. It is an archaeological site located in the Hijaz region in the Arabian Peninsula, northwest of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, specifically in the Al-Ula Governorate of the Medina region. The place is strategically located on the road that connects the southern Arabian Peninsula with Mesopotamia, the Levant and Egypt, and the place has a historical fame that it derived from its location on the ancient trade route linking the south of the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant, and Al Hajar is the name of Diyar Thamud with the Wadi Al Qura between Medina and Tabuk. The stone was mentioned in the Qur’an as the home of the people of Thamud, who responded to the call of the Prophet of God, Saleh, and then turned away from their religion and devoured the camel that God sent to them in a verse, and destroyed them with the shouting. The Nabataeans after Petra in Jordan, which separated it by a distance of 500 km, and its most prominent civilization roles go back to the first centuries BC and the first century AD, during the period of the prosperity of the Nabataean state and before its fall at the hands of the Roman Empire in 106 AD, and it is believed that the Hijr continued in its civilization until the fourth century AD And it was the capital of the Kingdom of Lahyan in the north of the Arabian Peninsula.
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