The ‘Works of the Old Men’ in Arabia

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1745-1744|1|2|197-203

ISSN: 0003-598x

Source: Antiquity, Vol.1, Iss.2, 1927-06, pp. : 197-203

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Abstract

The walls and hut circles which are known to the Bedouins as “the works of the old men” lie about 120 miles to the east of the Dead Sea, in a southern extension of the Jebel Druze range through which the Cairo-Baghdad air mail passes, in the neighbourhood of landing grounds F, G, and H.