We returned later to the Qasr al-Bint tombs (below) to first view the Al-Mahajar tombs and water well. The tombs in this area are some of the oldest in the city of Mada’in Saleh.

Mada’in Saleh is one of Saudi Arabia’s two UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The city was settled by the Nabataeans, whose capital was Petra in Jordan, in the first century B.C., and most of the 131 rock-cut tombs date to the first century A.D.