Films
The Films.
Documentary films on the history and archaeology of the Arabian Peninsula. Each is built from published scholarship and primary sources, with every source listed on its own page.
Archive5 films
The Date Palm: Living Traditions
Part II · The peninsula today
How the date palm is grown, worked, eaten, and remembered across the peninsula today.
The Date Palm: The Origins
Part I · Deep history
The deep history of date cultivation, and how the tree made settled life in Arabia possible.
The Incense Road
750 BCE – 600 CE
Frankincense, the caravan cities, and the trade that made southern Arabia rich.
The Political Landscape of Arabia
500 – 630 CE
Kingdoms, tribes and empires across the peninsula on the eve of Islam.
The Religious Landscape of Arabia
350 – 610 CE
The faiths of the peninsula in the centuries before Islam.