Al-Ahsa Oasis, an Evolving Cultural Landscape
Eastern Province · Saudi Arabia
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Some 2.5 million date palms make Al-Ahsa the largest oasis on the planet — a green sea in eastern Arabia fed by springs, wells and canals refined over millennia. People have lived here continuously since the Neolithic, leaving fortresses, mosques and an ingenious water-management inheritance alongside working gardens and a drainage lake. As an evolving cultural landscape it entered the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2018.
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